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Here, the party has preferred Nigel Farage cosplay to genuine – and much-needed – opposition. Look where it’s got them, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward

The shadow justice secretary said that Nigel Farage’s party should give ex-chairman Mr Yusuf ‘the boot’.

Downing Street said the Defence Secretary’s statement to MPs was ‘accurate’.

What, exactly, has Diane Abbott said that’s so wrong – wrong enough to get her suspended (again) from the Labour Party? Her observation, that the prejudice that Travellers or Jewish people encounter – or indeed redheads – is different from the racism that black people experience seems like a statement…

The details of more than 100 Britons, including those working as spies and in special forces, were included in the massive breach.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If anything, given the sheer size of the rebellion on social security – 130 of his own MPs threatening to defeat a government bill – Keir Starmer has been too lenient

James Heappey said claims he had backed a ‘new entitlement’ for people affected by the breach but not eligible for other schemes were ‘untrue’.

Ex-Tory defence secretary wanted data breach affecting those at risk from Taliban to be secret for as long as possible, say MoD sources

One email in February 2022 set off a chain of events that affected the lives of thousands of Afghans, but few knew about it until this week

No one had anything to say about a cover-up kept secret from parliament, the public and the people whose data was leaked

In their last clash before the summer recess, the Tory leader struggled to expose Labour's record, writes John Rentoul