Reform UK accused by minister of talking ‘utter nonsense’ after Zia Yusuf implies Starmer trying to get Farage killed – UK politics live
Migration minister Mike Tapp accuses Reform UK’s head of policy of ‘snowflakery’
Good morning. The Labour conference is over, the Conservative party one starts on Sunday, but both of them have got significant policy announcements out today.
For Labour, Keir Starmer is announcing government plans to tighten the conditions that apply to asylum seekers given the right to stay in the UK. Provocatively, he says: “There will be no golden ticket to settling in the UK, people will have to earn it.” Rajeev Syal has the story.
For the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservatives will repeal the Climate Change Act if they win the next election. Here is our story, by Fiona Harvey and Helena Horton.
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