UK politics: No 10 says Hamas won’t have ‘veto’ over UK recognition of Palestine – as it happened

Downing Street indicates that further hostage releases are not required for move to go ahead next month

George Finch, the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire county council, goes next. (Aged 19, he is the youngest council leader in the country.)

He claims the police have opposed his attempts to expose the immigration status of someone arrested in connection with an alleged crime.

It was dirty, run down and had major drug issues. My attitude to the task was assertive and no nonsense. That's the approach that I will take for my role within Reform UK [advising on crime].