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£10bn for housing with 60% social renting is at odds with PM’s previous call for programme to be spent entirely on social homes

Good morning and welcome to the UK politics live blog.

The government has set out its plans to spend an initial £10bn on a mix of subsidised housing in England, with a target of 60% being social renting.

There’s £39...


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UK prime minister ‘likely’ to travel to US in September, after meeting Zelenskyy and saying supply problem is ‘fixable’

Andy Burnham has said he plans to travel to the US next month to join European leaders lobbying Donald Trump to supply Ukraine with Patriot missiles.

The UK prime minister told Bloomberg he was “looking forward to going to New York” in September,...


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Although mobiles blared in public are nothing new, this crop of headphone-dodging irritants are truly maddening. It’s time to take them on

‘Interesting cities can’t be quiet”, runs one of grime DJ and music industry thinker Elijah’s epigrams – and in its essential spirit, he is...


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London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure

AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters and foreign states targeting UK defence sites, railways and energy plants under a deal struck between London and Kyiv.

Private companies will also be given access to ...


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Plan part of a wider policy to remove foreign nationals from social homes and prioritise young British-born couples

Social housing tenants will be evicted if they fail to keep their gardens well maintained under a Reform government, the party announced on Monday.

Lee Anderson, the party’s chair, said that if Reform came to power, it would insist that those in soci...


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