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US president backs down over Labour prime minister’s plans to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a deal the government says is necessary to secure the future of the crucial UK-US Diego Garcia military base More

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she would “scale up” the number of deportations even further More

In a report contributed to by The Independent, parliament’s international development select committee says the planned cuts are too deep and being pushed through too quickly More

Morgan McSweeney is considered the driving force behind Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador More

The foreign secretary says the government wants to ‘dismantle the war machine’ More

Our community has been discussing the growing pressure on Sir Keir Starmer, focusing on his handling of Lord Peter Mandelson’s appointment, the release of sensitive vetting files, and Angela Rayner’s dramatic Commons intervention, with many questioning his judgment and calling for new Labour leadership More

Labour MPs have questioned the prime ministers judgement, with some declaring ‘it’s over’ for Starmer More

Many people in Labour want Morgan McSweeney sacked as Downing Street chief of staff, but there are questions over how Keir Starmer would survive as PM without him, Kate Devlin and David Maddox write More