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The Conservatives are pledging to create a new “removals force” to detain and remove 150,000 a year as part of a broad plan to tackle illegal immigration to the UK. Modelled on the “successful approach” of the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, this new force would be given “sweeping new powers”, and over…

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is seeking a heavyweight outsider to run Britain’s main banking watchdog, with a senior Barclays executive expected to be among the top contenders for the job. Sky News has learnt that the Treasury is to advertise the post of chief executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which oversees financial services…

Baroness Michell Mone has accused Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch of using “reckless” language that could prejudice a police investigation, and says she has “no desire” to return to the House of Lords as a Tory peer. A day after she wrote to Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the government of pursuing a vendetta against her, the…

The proscription of Palestine Action must be “withdrawn”, Green Party leader Zack Polanski has said. Addressing his party’s conference in Bournemouth, Mr Polanski said the Labour government had overseen a “draconian crackdown on the right to protest” by legally banning and labelling the group a terrorist organisation. Politics latest: PM welcomes first female Archbishop of…

The Metropolitan Police has called for a planned protest in support of the banned Palestine Action group to be delayed or cancelled after Thursday’s synagogue attack in Manchester. In a statement, the force said it wanted to deploy every available officer to protect Jewish communities, but was instead having to prepare for Saturday’s planned gathering…

A member of cyber attack-hit Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) supply chain has told Sky News the government must act to safeguard the sector as it has seen no financial relief to date. Mike Beese, who owns Walsall-based Genex UK, was speaking as an industry body complained that support revealed by the government last week was…

Extra police protection has been sent to UK synagogues after the Manchester knife attack, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed. Greater Manchester Police said two people have died and three people are seriously injured, after a car was driven at pedestrians and a person was stabbed outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall on…

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 As Conservatives prepare to travel to Manchester for conference (and their opponents are joking that they hope the party enjoys its last conference), Anne’s got an interview with Kemi Badenoch. The Tory leader tells members to “hold their nerve” with her – and comes…

Refugees granted asylum in the UK will no longer be automatically given settlement and family reunion rights, Sir Keir Starmer will announce. The prime minister will reveal the plan for asylum policy changes at the European Political Community (EPC) summit in Copenhagen on Thursday, where he will co-chair a meeting of leaders looking at different…

Ed Miliband has vowed to “ban fracking” for good, as he drew yet another dividing line with Reform during his speech at the Labour Party conference. The energy secretary promised to “send this bunch of frackers packing”, after Richard Tice and Nigel Farage of Reform UK both backed the method for retrieving underground shale gas…