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Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the Labour party for making jokes about a constituent’s hoped-for death, and about Diane Abbott and Angela Rayner. Oliver Ryan, a member of the WhatsApp group where the jokes were shared, had the Labour whip removed and 11 councillors were suspended from the party. Asked about 16,913 of 28,564 medics registering to practise medicine in Britain last year having qualified abroad, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, said there was ‘no doubt’ that ‘the NHS has become too reliant’ on immigration. The government issued guidance saying that anyone who enters Britain by means of a dangerous journey will normally be refused citizenship. In the week to 10 February, 210 migrants arrived in small boats. Grenfell Tower, ruined by a fire in 2017 that killed 72 people, will be demolished, the government said.

Ed Miliband, the Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, when asked about the government’s support for a third runway at Heathrow, as announced by Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: ‘I am part of the government and I abide by collective responsibility.’ But he added: ‘We have carbon budgets in which any of those plans have to sit.’ The Bank of England reduced interest rates from 4.75 to 4.5 per cent but also halved its growth forecast for 2025 to just 0.75 per cent, with inflation forecast to rise to 3.75 per cent. The bank’s Governor, Andrew Bailey, said: ‘We have seen an increase in public-sector employment. We haven’t seen a commensurate increase in measured public-sector output.’

Kim Leadbeater MP, who sponsored the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, suggested that each killing would not have to be approved by a High Court judge after all, but by some panel appointed by a Voluntary Assisted Dying Commission.