There are more pictures of Keir Starmer in Mumbai than at the Labour Party Conference. There are hundreds!

And the PM’s big speech is tomorrow….

NEW; The Chancellor strongly suggests to me that gambling taxes are likely to go up. The @ippr.org has said this could pay for lifting the two child benefit cap. So has Gordon Brown.

Is the PM allowing himself a bit of distance now the summer visits are over?

Keir Starmer seems to take a swipe at Donald Trump’s view of London from the stage of the Global Action Progress Summit.

This sounds like a James Bond film plot!
Enough SIM cards to bring down the mobile networks in New York during the UN General Assembly.

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Kruger takes less than 5 minutes to declare that ‘Britain is not broken’ (after Reform spent the summer saying it is)

Kruger says ‘the Conservatives Party is over… but Conservatism is not over’

NEW: Nigel Farage announces that Danny Kruger is defecting to Reform.

My colleague Robert Peston reports that Angela Raynor has now resigned

NEW - The Prime Minister has received the report from Laurie Magnus on Angela Raynor. An announcement on her fate is imminent…

In a message that sounded like it was directed at Labour MPs Rachel Reeves said “we must bring inflation and borrowing costs down by keeping a tight grip on day to day spending through our non-negotiable fiscal rules.

It’s only by doing this can we afford to do the things we want to do.”

The Chancellor has announced the Budget will be on Wednesday 26th November (the very last Wednesday on which this could be described as an ‘autumn’ budget).

Trump says the new deadline will be “ten to twelve days”. He says he will announce it today or tomorrow.

NEW; Trump says he WILL reduce the 50 days he gave Putin for a ceasefire in Ukraine…

Beyond the cameras a piper is playing to welcome Keir Starmer to Trump Turnberry.

The money will all come from cutting the aid budget which will now be cut from 0.5 to 0.3% of GNI.

NEW. The Prime Minister says the Government will spend 2.5% of GDP on defence by 2027 and will set out a path to 3% in the next Parliament.

US would provide 'some military security' but no 'boots on the ground' in any Ukraine peace plan, writes ITV News Washington News Editor Jonathan Wald
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Just going to post #TomorrowsPapersToday here tonight as well as at the other place as a little test…

Joining a new social network always feels like…