4pm Gaza Rafah invasion w ex IDF spox Jonathan Conricus plus former ME negotiator for the US Aaron David Miller
Labour’s small boats plan w Lizzie Dearden & John Vine ex Chief Inspector of Borders
Campus protests w Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine & vivienne stern
Scottish politics w Brian Taylor

The second legal challenge linked to the Safety of Rwanda Act will now progress to the next stage

The separate FDA challenge is one step ahead with a judicial review permission hearing scheduled at the High Court

📻I'll be on Times Radio at 3pm discussing Labour's plan for tackling small boats, following Keir Starmer's speech earlier today

He says they will focus on people smugglers, but will that work?

UPDATE: The Home Office has stopped publishing the stats.

It comes a day after we reported that the HO had admitted its own data was unverified + likely to have 'a relatively high degree of measurement error'.

Aid workers said the data was 'misleading'👇
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This is not a new idea

Splitting the Home Office into two departments - one responsible for immigration and one for policing and national security - has been discussed for years but never pursued by recent Conservative governments