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Has Labour rowed back on its promise of universal free childcare?Coming so soon after Rachel Reeves tempered the green new deal pledge, telling the Today programme that everything we do must rest on these pillars of economic and fiscal responsibility, it sounds like the kind of thing it would do.Labour says it never promised universal free childcare in the first place, and I went back to the primary text, a Bridget Phillipson interview from April: it's true.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails British foreign minister James Cleverly has raised the issue of tax raids on the BBC's offices in India during a meeting with his Indian counterpart in Delhi.

Parliament's Standards Committee are seeking views on whether MPs charged with violent or sexual offences should be banned from setting foot in the House of Commons.If the plans are approved, any MP charged with these offences would need to stay away from the building until their case had concluded.

Boris Johnson's resignation honours list should be put through the shredder, according to an opposition party, following reports Rishi Sunak has accepted his recommendations for peerages.The Times reported that the Prime Minister is expected to accept Mr Johnson's long-awaited resignation honours list, with the paper reporting that it could be published in a matter of weeks.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Labour has promised to reverse chancellor Jeremy Hunt's 1bn pensions tax break for the wealthy if it wins power at the general election expected in 2024.Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the party will seek to force a Commons vote next week on the Budget decision to scrap the lifetime pensions allowance (LTA).

Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Warsaw on Sunday in a huge display of opposition to the governing party before an October general election, summoning memories of Poland's rejection of Communist Party rule decades before.The event, organized by the government's political rivals, sought to deprive Poland's deeply conservative Law and Justice party of its claims to the legacy of Solidarity, the trade union movement that led the struggle against a Communist system imposed by Moscow after World War II.

Turkish nationals living in Germany started casting their votes for Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday.The elections, with the first round of voting on May 14 in Turkey, pose what some observers say is the toughest test so far for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in power for 20 years.

Russian police searched several apartments belonging to former employees of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Memorial on Tuesday.The human rights group said some of the former employees were also apprehended for questioning.One opposition party condemned the move as an assault on dissent.Memorial, one of Russia's most renowned rights groups, was founded in 1987 to document cases of political repression in the Soviet Union.

Tundu Lissu, Tanzania's leading opposition figure, returned home on Wednesday after more than two years in exile, one of the strongest indications yet that efforts by the East African nation's first female president to increase political freedoms and rights protections were being realized.Mr. Lissu, of the opposition Chadema party, arrived in the port city of Dar es Salaam to a cheering crowd of supporters.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has defended his party colleagues during a tense exchange in the Dail chamber, rounding on Sinn Fein to explain a 1,000 euro donation from Jonathan Dowdall.Mr Varadkar also questioned the legitimacy of an Oxfam poverty report, saying that billionaires in Ireland are all fur coat and no knickers, and defended attending Davos.

Halting tax cuts given to the banks for just one week could fund food vouchers for 1.9 million children in poverty over Christmas, analysis has revealed.If Rishi Sunak's government were to ditch the tax cuts for seven days, it would raise enough to feed all the children eligible for free school meals in England during the school break.

Police officers stand guard to ensure security at the vicinity of police headquarters, where Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan is held and will appear in a temporary court set up by authorities for security reasons, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.The opposition party of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Khan called for demonstrators to remain peaceful, hours after mobs angered over the dramatic mid-trial arrest set fire to the residence of a top army general in the eastern city of Lahore.

The Indian authorities have arrested a top leader of an opposition party that has tried to project itself as a rival to the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, escalating a messy tussle that has hamstrung local governance of the capital, Delhi.The opposition leader, Manish Sisodia, is a leading official in the Aam Aadmi Party, or A.A.P., and the deputy chief minister of Delhi, the No. 2 official in the regional government that controls the national capital territory.

KYIV, Ukraine Ukraine's former chief prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, was a central figure in the events leading to the first impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, when Mr. Trump was accused of withholding military aid from Ukraine in an effort to persuade President Volodymyr Zelensky's administration to investigate Hunter Biden.

JOHANNESBURG  Cyril Ramaphosa is on the brink of becoming the first South African president to face impeachment after a report released Wednesday found evidence that he may have committed serious misconduct and violations of the law in relation to a theft at one of his properties.Although the unprecedented finding is just an early step in any path to impeachment, it throws Mr. Ramaphosa's presidency into crisis and casts doubt on his future as South Africa's leader.

Rishi Sunak's government has been accused by Labour of coming up with a charter for cronies that would effectively legalise its VIP lane for Covid contracts.Sir Keir Starmer's party said minister must remove loopholes from its procurement bill as it returns to the Commons on Monday.Labour will put forward amendments to outlaw so-called VIP lanes which saw some firms fast-tracked for contracts after MPs, ministers and senior officials passed on offers during the pandemic.