UK politics: Unite hits back at Starmer over Birmingham bin strike, questioning Labour’s backing for ‘working people’– as it happened

Union says the government should intervene directly and force the council to settle the dispute

Trump claims Starmer very happy' about tariffs

Downing Street has refused to confirm President Trump's claim that Keir Starmer was very happy" about the treatment the UK is getting under the new US global tariff regime. (See 9.32am.) Asked about the president's words at the morning lobby briefing, the PM's spokesperson said that the government had already set out its position yesterday and that it was disappointed" by the US tariff policy.

Livia Tossici-Bolt has been sentenced at Poole magistrates' court to a conditional discharge for two years for two charges of breaching a buffer zone" outside an abortion clinic in Bournemouth, PA Media reports. See 11.22am.