The decision to sack Lord Mandelson with immediate effect was taken on Thursday morning and announced shortly afterwards.

Elon Musk spoke at the rally via video link.

New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, has been tasked with ramping up the UK’s response to small boat crossings.

The Conservative Party leader said Sir Keir Starmer has ‘very serious questions to answer’.

Some MPs have called for him to be stripped of his peerage or have the Labour whip removed.

The Prime Minister is understood not to have been aware of the contents of the emails until Wednesday evening.

Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South, said his fellow Labour MPs were feeling ‘concerned, slightly downtrodden, a little bit browbeaten’.

Russian drones violated Polish airspace and were shot down by Poland and Nato on Tuesday night.

Clive Lewis, MP for Norwich South, said there was a ‘very dangerous atmosphere’ in the parliamentary Labour party.

The Reform UK leader said last year he had bought a home in his Essex constituency, but it was later reported that his partner had made the purchase.

He started out as a Labour communications director in 1985 and was first elected as an MP in 1992.

Peter Mandelson resigned twice from cabinet in 1998 and 2001, under the Blair government.

Defence Secretary John Healey said the move took Russia’s aggression to ‘a new level of hostility’.

The Prime Minister completed a major Government reshuffle triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation.

The Guardian published a series of stories based on leaked data provided by a non-profit organisation.

MPs hoping to replace Ms Rayner as the party’s deputy leader have until Thursday to secure the support of colleagues at Westminster.

Both leaders agreed there will be ‘absolutely no role’ for Hamas in the future governance of Palestine, a Downing Street spokesperson said.

The Birmingham conference was bigger than previous years.

Mr Farage’s deputy Richard Tice had earlier said the party leader’s tax affairs are ‘irrelevant’ to voters.

The wife of a Conservative councillor was jailed for stirring up racial hatred against asylum seekers.