Tuesday briefing: What to expect from the next phase of the Post Office inquiry

In today's newsletter: As Alan Bates prepares to speak on the devastating impact on thousands of former post office operators, we look at where the public inquiry into the Horizon scandal goes from here

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It is, in the words of the prime minister, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation's history". The Post Office Horizon scandal led to 236 innocent subpostmasters being sent to prison, and more than 4,000 others suffering - whether it be losing jobs, bankruptcy, family breakdowns or homelessness. At least four of those accused have since killed themselves.

Israel-Gaza | David Cameron will set out the UK's reasoning for continuing to export arms to Israel on Tuesday as ministers face ongoing pressure to disclose the official legal advice on the trade. On Monday evening, the foreign secretary
held talks with Donald Trump in Florida amid a push to shore up support for Ukraine.

Carers | Ministers are facing calls to abandon the cruel and nonsensical" fines levied on tens of thousands of unpaid carers for unwittingly breaching earnings rules by just a few pounds a week. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a centre-right thinktank, said the government should accept that it was to blame for allowing overpayments to run up to huge sums.

Fossil fuels | The world's biggest economies have continued to finance the expansion of fossil fuels in poor countries to the tune of billions of dollars, despite their commitments on the climate. Canada, Japan and South Korea were the biggest sources of such finance in the three years studied, according to campaigning groups Oil Change International (OCI) and Friends of the Earth US.

Home Office | Families in Gaza have won a legal case against the Home Office after a judge found it had reached irrational and unreasonable" conclusions to justify its refusal to consider the families' reunion applications. Two challenges were brought against the government department after it refused to decide on reunion applications from families in Gaza without biometric data.

Politics | Downing Street has urged MPs to be cautious when responding to unsolicited messages, after the spear-phishing" attack that targeted more than a dozen MPs, staff and journalists working in Westminster. On Tuesday evening it was reported that William Wragg, the Conservative MP who divulged colleagues' personal phone numbers as part of the scandal, had stepped down from two Commons roles.