Badenoch says Starmer did not answer the question.Did he pick up the phone to Mandelson.She says Starmer said Mandelson lied to him.That implied that they spoke.Starmer again criticises Badenoch.

He says she should have sacked Nick Timothy for his attack on Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square.(See 10.28am.)UPDATE: Starmer said:double quotation markShe appointed the shadow justice secretary.He said last night that Muslims praying in public, including the mayor of London, practising his faith are not welcome.

He described it as an act of domination,Straight from the Islamist playbook,If he was in my team, he’d be gone,It’s utterly appalling,She should denounce his comments and she should sack him.

Keir Starmer has claimed the Conservative party “has a problem with Muslims” after the shadow justice secretary described an event where the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, joined others to pray in Trafalgar Square as “an act of domination”,A government led by the Green party would not set targets for GDP growth but would instead focus on people’s mental health, social cohesion and community welfare, Zack Polanski has said in a major speech to set out his plans for the economy,Here is an analysis of the speech by Heather Stewart, the Guardian’s economics editor,Andy Burnham has backed stark criticism of the direction of Keir Starmer’s government by Angela Rayner after she said the very survival of the Labour party was at stake,And here is an edited extract from Rayner’s speech.

For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.This is from Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, on Nick Timothy (see 10.28am) on Bluesky.double quotation markChristians, Jews, Sikhs and Hindus have all prayed in Trafalgar Square.Nick Timothy singled out Muslims, then had the brass neck today to sit on the front bench.

He should be sacked,The Tories are following Reform into the gutter,Neither are fit to govern,The UK could require AI-generated content to be labelled as part of efforts to protect consumers from disinformation and deepfakes, the Press Association reports,PA says:double quotation markTechnology secretary Liz Kendall said a taskforce would propose how best to go about labelling such content as she signalled a shift from previous plans to allow an exemption to copyright laws so works could be used to train artificial intelligence.

She said in a written statement: “It can be helpful to consumers to understand whether content has been made using AI.“It may also help protect against disinformation and harmful deepfakes.“We will establish a taskforce to put forward proposals for government on best practice for labelling AI-generated content, with an interim report to be published in autumn.”There is currently no obligation to label AI-generated content in the UK, but many services already have labelling technology and several countries have introduced their own labelling rules, a newly released report and impact assessment on copyright and AI notes.Kendall also said a consultation on how to deal with digital replicas, when someone’s likeness is replicated without their permission, will be launched in the summer.

A review into how creators can control their works online will also be published with a view to considering whether the government should get involved, and a working group will be set up for independent creatives,About 7% of England’s land – an area roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cornwall – will need to be given over to nature, forests and renewable energy, to meet the UK’s environmental targets, new data shows,Fiona Harvey has the story,At the post-PMQs lobby briefing the PM’s political spokesperson did not commit firmly to the government pressing ahead with the immigration reforms criticised by Angela Rayner,(See 8.

52am,)But subsequently a government spokesperson issued a statement saying they were going ahead,The spokesperson said:double quotation markThe government’s position has not changed,We will always welcome those that come to this country and contribute to our national life, but the privilege of living here forever should be earned, not automatic,Downing Street has said that Keir Starmer still wants to see Angela Rayner back in government at some point.

At the post-PMQs lobby briefing, asked whether Starmer stood by his past comments about Rayner in the light of her speech last night, the PM’s political spokesperson said:double quotation markYou’ve heard from the Prime Minister direct on that when he’s been asked this before, he said that she is hugely talented, that he was really sad that he lost her, and he would like to see her return to the cabinet.Asked whether that position still stood, the spokesman said it did.The spokesperson also said Starmer shares with Rayner “an impatience to deliver the change people voted for”.Severin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor.Reform UK-supporting students at St Andrews university are under investigation for alleged racism and mocking someone with a disability, after Reform itself complained about alleged intimidation of a party meeting last week.

Reform said today it had written to the university in Fife, Scotland, famous for its association with Prince William and Catherine, after people believed to be students harangued a group of Reform supporters in a pub on Friday night.Footage on Instagram suggested the clash was verbal without any physical acts, but Malcolm Offord, Reform UK’s Scottish leader, claimed the event was “hijacked by a gang of hard-left agitators who hurled abuse and tried to intimidate young people into silence.”Suella Braverman, the party’s UK education and skills spokesperson at Westminster, said:double quotation markWhat happened at St Andrews was mob rule.Students were targeted simply for supporting Reform UK, such behaviour that has no place in a university.St Andrews university must show it still stands for open debate and intellectual freedom.

Reform UK will always defend Scotland’s universities and the principle of free speech.A university spokesman said it had not yet received the complaint Offord publicised, but added:double quotation markWe have a culture of robust debate at St Andrews, and that is precisely as it should be at an international university with a diverse and politically engaged student population.Freedom of speech does not, however, extend to the right to intimidate others and there is no place for that type of behaviour here, nor for attempts to stoke culture wars.We have invited the Reform Society to submit a complaint so that these allegations can be properly investigated.We are also investigating a complaint that some people at a recent Reform Society event made racist remarks and publicly mocked a person with a disability.

Another Instagram reel appeared to show one of the protestors being warned by a pub employee to stop shouting or face being made to leave.Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London, was one of the Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square on Monday at the event criticised by Nick Timothy.(See 10.28am.) He posted this on social media yesterday responding to the shadow justice secretary’s outburst.

Here's an Iftar on Trafalgar Square,And here’s Easter, Diwali, Vaisakhi and Chanukah,London is, and will always be, a place for everyone,#UnityOverDivision https://t,co/bqUNBaL0og pic.

twitter,com/wm8tvEL6QQLabour has said that Zack Polanski has “the wrong answers” on the economy,Responding to Polanski’s speech this morning, Anna Turley, the Labour chair, said:double quotation markZack Polanski has the wrong answers on the economy,Respected economists have sounded the alarm over the Greens’ “catastrophic” plans to print money, which would hammer working people and their living standards,Polanski attacks Tory austerity now but as a Lib Dem during the coalition years he was a cheerleader for it at the time - even though it saw public services slashed and people made poorer.

You can’t trust him.But there was a more positive response from the thinktank Common Wealth.Its director, Mathew Lawrence, said:double quotation markZack Polanski is right.With global energy prices spiking, we need action to decouple the price of electricity from expensive gas so that we don’t get a repeat of the last energy crisis: where energy giants made vast windfalls while people struggled to heat their homes.Alexandra Topping is a Guardian political correspondent.

Keir Starmer today reprised his accusations made at PMQs last week that Badenoch had criticised Starmer for not immediately backing US and Israel’s attacks on Iran, then reversed her position,He told MPs today:double quotation markShe didn’t do the work,She didn’t think through the consequences,Committing our military to a war without thinking through the consequences is the gravest mistake a leader of the opposition can have,And she comes back a week later and says, oops, I got that one wrong.

She’s utterly irrelevant and she’s got no judgment.Starmer also attacked Reform leader Nigel Farage, who he said he was “perfectly, perfectly clear” that Britain should be involved in initial attacks on Iran by the US and Israel.Starmer went on:double quotation markJust like the leader of the opposition, the member for Clacton said we should do all we can to support the US strikes.And he said, “I made that perfectly, perfectly clear.”It was perfectly, perfectly clear he got it completely wrong and perfectly clear that he’s now desperately trying to U-turn.

He had absolutely no judgment and he is not fit to be prime minister,Asked if he would guarantee that MPs would get a vote before the UK became involved in any further conflict, Starmer said:double quotation markUnlike the leader of the opposition, my principles have been clear and unwavering,We will protect our people in the region,We will take action to defend ourselves and our allies, and we will not be drawn into the wider war,I want to see this war end as quickly as possible.

The longer it continues, the bigger the impact on the cost of living,And that’s why we’ve intervened to support households with costs of heating oil,The best way forward is a negotiated settlement, with Iran giving up any aspirations to develop a nuclear weapon,The Reform UK MP Lee Anderson has used his parliamentary office to record paid-for personalised messaging videos, in a possible breach of rules that prohibit the commercial use of the Palace of Westminster, Henry Dyer and Michael Goodier report,