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Sanders, who had previously supported Biden’s reelection bid, expressed concern about the media’s role in pushing the President out of the race.

The Vermont senator’s hesitation to immediately endorse Harris stands in contrast to the wave of support she has received from within the Democratic Party.

When pressed about what it would take for him to endorse the Vice President, Sanders emphasized the importance of the upcoming campaign, highlighting critical issues such as climate change and economic rights.

Sanders pointed to disparities in American society, noting that “life expectancy for working-class people is 10 years shorter than it is for the rich.”

While expressing confidence that he will eventually endorse Harris, Sanders made it clear that he wants to ensure the campaign aligns with his vision for addressing the needs of working families.

Some Hillary Clinton supporters have argued that Sanders’ long campaign against her in the 2016 Democratic primaries and his perceived reluctance to unite the party helped Donald Trump defeat her in the general election.

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Yvette Cooper described the policy, which was introduced two-and-a-half years ago and sought to send UK asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing, as “the biggest waste of taxpayer money I have ever seen”.

Cooper said the £700m cost included £290m payments to Rwanda, chartering flights that never took off, detaining people and then releasing them, and paying more than 1,000 civil servants to work on the policy.

Under the government’s plans, new offences will be created to allow enforcement agencies to treat people smugglers like terrorists and to penalise social media companies that fail to remove advertisements for small boat crossings.

In her statement in the Commons, Cooper blasted the Conservative government’s “unworkable” Illegal Migration Act, which was introduced in March 2023 and cost the taxpayer billions by putting asylum seekers who arrived in the UK in a state of limbo.

James Cleverly, the shadow home secretary, accused Cooper of “hyperbole and made-up numbers” and said Labour had “scrapped the Rwanda partnership on ideological grounds”.

Richard Foord, the Liberal Democrat defence spokesperson, called for the creation of a resettlement scheme to create a safe and legal route and disincentivise asylum seekers from travelling to the UK before they have made an application.

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Three members of the new cabinet have told the BBC that if Labour does not keep its promises, voters will back populists instead.Chancellor Rachel Reeves suggested it would be an “institutional failure” if they could not get things done.Interviewed for a Panorama special, the chancellor, foreign secretary and health secretary all warned separately that the public has lost faith in mainstream politics and that if they fail, voters will turn toward the far-left or far-right.Ms Reeves said that if Labour doesn’t stick to its word, "it will be seen as sort of an institutional failing, that mainstream politics doesn’t deliver.

"The new Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, said members of the cabinet had to preserve their connections to working class communities and the constituencies they represent.

"If we don’t, as we’re seeing in other parts of the world, in democracies, the populists - whether from the far-right or the far-left - will offer a different vision.

Now the foreign secretary, who had previously been very critical of Donald Trump, he said he would “embrace the constraint” of being an office-holder where he could no longer speak freely like a backbencher.The programme also captures the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, joking with a group of builders that Ms Reeves is the “moneybags” and she is “tightfisted”.Reeves responds: "I’m a Yorkshire MP… We have a reputation in Yorkshire of being good with money.

"Moving into Downing Street at the weekend, the chancellor said it was a “big change” for her whole family, but that her husband had been unpacking most of the boxes so far.

All three cabinet ministers know only too well the risks if they do not keep their promises.The health secretary admits he is concerned about being able to stick to the targets he has set for 2025.

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President Biden announced Sunday that he is dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, a seismic event that will leave Democrats scrambling to select his replacement just weeks before their convention.

“While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for my term,” Mr. Biden posted in a statement on social media.

In the days following the debate, a growing chorus of Democrats openly expressed concern over the president’s health and mental state, his ability to defeat Trump in November and his capacity to lead the country for four more years.

The pressure to step aside steadily increased as Democratic lawmakers and governors went days without hearing from Mr. Biden directly, allowing questions about his future to swirl within the party ranks.

In the weeks since the debate, the president tried to push back, insisting in a series of public appearances and meetings with Democratic elected officials that he was committed to staying in the race.

For months, the Biden campaign and allies reassured the public that the president was up to the rigors of leading the free world, often dismissing questions about his age and fitness even as polls consistently showed Americans had concerns.

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Parents should not take their children on term-time holidays and have a responsibility to keep them in school, the new education secretary has told the BBC.In her first interview in the role with BBC News, Bridget Phillipson said there “will have to be consequences” for parents who fail to do so.She said punishments, like fines, are a “well-established practice” and are “here to stay”.It comes as some parents say weighing a fine against the much larger cost of a trip during the school holidays makes the decision a “no-brainer”.

Minimum fines, imposed by local authorities, for taking children out of class without permission for five school days will rise from £60 per child to £80 per child from August.Head teachers have some say over which cases they refer to the council for potential fines.Repeated failure to ensure school attendance can result in a court prosecution, a fine of up to £2,500, a community order and even a jail sentence of up to three months.But some parents have told the BBC they are saving thousands by going away during term time rather than the school holidays.Ms Phillipson said it was important that parents “honour our responsibilities”.

The education secretary has also been setting out plans for a wide-ranging review of what is taught in schools in England.Launching the curriculum review on Friday, Ms Phillipson said all children should have a strong academic foundation in subjects like English and maths, but also have access to music, art, drama and sports.At Heworth Grange School in Gateshead, Erin Anderson is head of arts and culture, covering subjects like music and drama.

"They learn how to work together as team players, they get to stand on their own two feet, they can speak more confidently.

"Year nine pupil Lucy said she sometimes struggles in lessons like English and science because she is “really dramatic”, but says she finds her creative subjects less stressful.

The Department for Education said that, after the review, all state schools will have to follow the national curriculum up to the age of 16, including academies which do not currently have to do so.Ms Phillipson also told the BBC she was committed to Labour’s promise to deliver free breakfast clubs across all primary schools, but said it would “take time” to roll out.She said the clubs would contribute to tackling the “really big challenge” of widespread persistent absence in schools.She also promised to carry on the roll-out of the government-funded childcare hours promised by the previous government, but said it would be a “tough challenge” to ensure enough places were available and that the workforce was in place to deliver it.Additional reporting by Hope Rhodes.

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Maybe that was enough; and it is notable how, on the issue itself, a long static period post-2016 of entrenched views on both sides has in the last year or so given way to a significant majority seeing that vote as a mistake.

A strong attachment to the local, the practical, the empirical; a deeply engrained suspicion of the abstract, of ideas, of intellectuals; above all, an instinctive preference for the moderate over the extreme.

And it was those qualities, combined with a doggedly determined execution of policies – sometimes bold, sometimes incremental – designed to improve life as a whole for working people and their families, that made Attlee our greatest peacetime prime minister of the 20th century.

The winner of four elections out of five, and a Yorkshireman with his values firmly rooted in northern nonconformity, Wilson was utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors at No 10 and had an intuitive grasp of the centre of political gravity, of middle England’s concerns; as PM, he went to extraordinary lengths to keep Britain out of America’s ill-fated Vietnam war; and it was no coincidence that he was one of the Queen’s favourite first ministers.

As for the even more robustly patriotic Callaghan, with his close links to the Royal Navy, it is true that in 1979 he lost his only election; but he was more personally popular than Margaret Thatcher at the time and had, as he recognised, deeper forces against him.

We as a country have made such extraordinary strides in race relations since the 1960s (think Smethwick, think rivers of blood) that it would be foolish to jeopardise them because of inadequate control over immigration.

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The event in question — a Los Angeles fundraiser hosted by Jimmy Kimmel — included a viral moment where it appeared Obama led a frozen Biden offstage.

According to an anonymous former Obama aide who spoke to the Times, the former president was surprised by how Biden had “aged and seemed disoriented.”

This resentment partially stems from Obama discouraging Biden from running for president in 2016 to make room for Hillary Clinton, the Times reported.

However, the Times also reports that Biden believes Obama to be behind the wave of Democrats urging him to step down, according to people close to the President.

Multiple reports indicate that Obama expressed concerns about Biden’s ability to beat Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“He’s the best person to take on Donald Trump,” Biden’s reelection campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillon, said on “Morning Joe.”

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The prime minister and his chancellor are heavily relying on what Keynes called “the animal spirits” of enterprise to help them drive up economic growth, without which they are going to find it hard to achieve their other ambitions.

Interventions in areas where capitalist models haven’t worked is evident both in the nationalisation of the rail network as operator franchises expire and the most serious challenge to the filthy practices of the water companies since their privatisation in 1989.

These aspects of Starmerism have antecedents in previous iterations of British social democracy with rather more in common with what Harold Wilson attempted in the 1960s than with the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

That was only partially ameliorated when the Blair government established the Scottish parliament, the Welsh Senedd and, after a lot of false starts, the power-sharing assembly in Northern Ireland.

The defining test of the sincerity of the commitment to release power from the centre will be the extent to which regional and local government is properly funded and liberated to spend as they think best for their communities.

The government will also use legislative hammers to crack down on high-caffeine energy drinks, junk food advertising, and the flavouring and marketing of vapes in ways that entice children.

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The UK will resume funding UNRWA, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, the foreign secretary has announced.David Lammy told MPs he had received reassurances about its neutrality in the wake of a review of alleged links between its staff and terror groups.The UK was among several countries to suspend donations in January, after Israel alleged 12 UNRWA staff were involved in the October 2023 attacks by Hamas.An internal UN investigation into allegations related to that attack is ongoing.But a separate UN review, published in April, found Israel had not provided evidence for its claims hundreds of UNRWA staff were members of terror groups.

The announcement brings the UK into line with other countries that have resumed funding since then, leaving the United States, UNRWA’s single biggest donor, as the only country not to have restarted donations.Speaking in the Commons, Mr Lammy said “no other agency” was able to deliver aid at the scale required to alleviate the “desperate" humanitarian situation in Gaza.He added UNRWA was feeding more than half the territory’s two-million population and would be “vital for future reconstruction”.He said he had been “appalled” by Israel’s allegations, but the claims had been taken "seriously” by the United Nations.He had been reassured the agency “is ensuring they meet the highest standards of neutrality” in the wake of the April review, he added.This included “strengthening its procedures, including on vetting,” Mr Lammy said.

He told MPs a resumption of the UK’s £21m annual funding would include money put towards “management reforms” recommended by the UN review.The Foreign Office said £6m would be given to UNRWA’s flash appeal for Gaza, and £15m to the agency’s budget to provide services in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and wider region.UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma told the BBC the agency welcomed the announcement, which came at a “critical time as humanitarian needs in Gaza continue to deepen”.She added that the agency had reassured the UK it was implementing recommendations from the April report, “especially with regards to continuing to follow the principle of neutrality in our programmes”.

The review, by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, found Israel had “yet to provide supporting evidence” for its claims that a “significant number of UNRWA employees are members of terrorist organizations”.Israel has said more than 2,135 employees of the agency - out of a total of 13,000 in Gaza - are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad, proscribed as terrorist organisations by Israel, the UK, US and other countries.

However, the review concluded the agency must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency.Israeli authorities suggest the report ignores the severity of the problem, and claim UNRWA has systematic links with Hamas.Israel initially alleged that 12 UNRWA staff took part in the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, which saw 1,200 people killed and about 250 taken hostage.More than 38,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry, after Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the attacks.

UNRWA sacked the 10 of the 12 employees who were still alive when the allegations emerged and the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight launched an investigation into the claims.In April, the body said eight employees remained under investigation, external, with inquiries suspended in four of the cases because of insufficient evidence.It added it had also begun investigations into an additional seven staff members, and six of those cases were ongoing.

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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

The ABC is experiencing a major network outage, along with several other media outlets.

Crowd-sourced website Downdetector is listing outages for Foxtel, National Australia Bank and Bendigo Bank.

Follow our live blog as we bring you the latest updates.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA said Wednesday it’s canceling its water-seeking moon rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays.

The Viper rover was supposed to launch in late 2023 aboard a lander provided by Astrobotic Technology, but extra testing and increased costs kept delaying the mission, threatening other projects, the space agency said.

The announcement comes days before the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July 20, 1969.

NASA said it plans to study the presence of lunar ice through other projects.

Astrobotic still plans to fly its Griffin moon lander — minus a rover — by the end of next year.

The company’s first moonshot ended in failure in January with a fiery plunge over the South Pacific.

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Viral images of Trump raising his fist in defiance after surviving Saturday’s assassination attempt gave the Republican nominee a surge of internet support over the weekend from well-known influencers.

“There is a lot of momentum around Trump right now when it comes to influencers,” said Martin Johannes Riedl, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Comedic creator Hassan Khadair, who has 6.3 million followers on TikTok, told The Washington Post in June that Biden will have to work harder to earn the Gen Z vote this election cycle compared to in 2020.

Young people who are more left-leaning have also been particularly vocal against Biden online, criticizing him heavily for his backing of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and his controversial climate policies.

Notably, a few of the political influencers who Wired reported visiting the White House during the spring have continued to support him, including Keith Edwards — who has 145,100 followers on X — and Emily Amick, who has 147,000 on Instagram.

“To survive an assassination attempt by mere millimeters then stop your security so you can raise your fist in defiance of death is the most badass thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” Logan Paul posted on X.

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However, it also pointed out the UK lacked resilience – with high rates of ill-health and public services running close to, if not beyond, capacity.By the end of 2023, 235,000 people had died from Covid.This is the first of at least nine inquiry reports covering everything from political decision-making to vaccines.Inquiry chair Baroness Hallett said the UK was “ill-prepared for dealing with a catastrophic emergency, let alone the coronavirus pandemic”.“Never again can a disease be allowed to lead to so many deaths and so much suffering,” she added.Her report makes a series of recommendations, including:Taking responsibility for pandemic planning away from the Department of Health and Social Care, which leads for the UKCreating a ministerial-level body in each nation, chaired by the leader or deputy leader, with responsibility for all types of civil emergency that every department feeds intoA new independent body to advise on civil emergencies and assess the state of preparation and resilience, which includes both socio-economic and scientific expertiseThree-yearly pandemic response exercises to stress-test plans in placeBaroness Hallett said she wants to see her recommendations acted on quickly, with many in place within six months or a year.“The expert evidence suggests it is not a question of if another pandemic will strike, but when," she added.

The families and loved-ones of those who died from Covid have welcomed publication of the report.Prof Naomi Fulop, a spokeswoman for the Covid 19 Bereaved Families for Justice group , said the report was “hard-hitting and clear-sighted” and urged the new government to adopt the recommendations.However, she said the inquiry did not go far enough in terms of what undermined the UK’s ability to respond – the inequalities within society and the state of public services.“Even the best-laid plans won’t save lives unless they address, rather than just account for, the conditions that led to our inability to respond quickly, equitably and effectively.”Kazeema Afzal, who lost her sister Areema Nasreen, who at 36 was one of the youngest NHS workers to die with Covid when she lost her life at the start of the pandemic, told BBC Newsbeat that healthcare workers were unprepared.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said: "My heartfelt sympathies go out to all those who lost a loved one during that time.“The report confirms what many have always believed - that the UK was under-prepared.“The safety and security of the country should always be the first priority - and this government is committed to learning the lessons and putting better measures in place to protect and prepare us.

"Baroness Hallett’s report contrasted the approach taken by the UK with countries in East Asia which had learnt from outbreaks of two coronaviruses – Sars and Mers – over the past two decades.They had plans in place to quickly ramp up test-and-trace systems, and established processes for quarantine.

The report said the UK government and its advisers had been “lulled” into a false sense of security by the swine flu pandemic of 2011, which turned out to be mild.Her report said the UK needed to be ready to scale up test-and-trace systems as well as surge NHS capacity in the future.It also called for plans to be put in place to protect the most vulnerable people.

The report said part of the blame for these failings lay with the groupthink that was prevalent in its planning.The scientific advice received by ministers was too narrowly focused and there was too little consideration given to the socio-economic impacts, it said.The report said ministers did not do enough to challenge what they were being told, and there was not sufficient freedom or autonomy in the way the various advisory groups were set up for dissenting voices to be heard.The creation of an independent body drawing in expertise from science, economics and society would help rectify that, the report said.

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David Lammy has said he is already engaging with Donald Trump’s controversial running mate, JD Vance, and can identify with him because of their common working class and Christian backgrounds.

The British foreign secretary was speaking just hours after the possible future US vice-president reiterated his “America first” views, pledging to the Republican national convention (RNC) that he would not send US soldiers to war abroad unnecessarily.

Lammy told BBC Breakfast: “Let me just say on JD Vance that I’ve met him now on several occasions, we share a similar working class background with addiction issues in our family.

Starmer is hoping to use the EPC summit to demonstrate Europe’s collective determination to support Ukraine, and to relaunch the UK on the European stage and reset relations with the EU after almost eight years poisoned by Brexit.

The summit will be attended by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy who, along with Starmer, will address the plenary session involving the 44 leaders as well as the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, and the Council of Europe.

He told Harris about his pledge to repeal the controversial Legacy Act, which offered immunity for Troubles-era crimes in Northern Ireland, and committed to an annual Anglo-Irish conference with a specific work-stream aimed at ironing out practical problems which can create drags on the neighbours’ relationship.

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A newly elected Green Party MP has called for a “pause” on a proposed 114-mile (184-km) electricity pylon route across East Anglia.The National Grid wants to build the new power lines from Norwich to Tilbury in Essex, which it has called “vital infrastructure”.Adrian Ramsay, the Waveney Valley MP, said the proposal required a “proper options assessment” that should be considered by the new Labour government.The government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said the public consultation was ongoing, but the UK needed to improve “outdated” energy infrastructure.

Having arrived for his first day at the House of Commons, Mr Ramsay, who is the Greens’ co-leader nationally, said: "There’s a controversial proposal… where there’s huge local concern about the impact on agricultural land, on traffic, on local communities, on the landscape.

“So what I’m arguing for is a pause while the other options are considered, because of course we need the infrastructure; it’s a matter of doing it in the right way that has a long-term benefit.”

National Grid, a private firm, wants to build the power line to carry 50 gigawatts of electricity generated by offshore windfarms and has said the previous government had set a target of doing this by 2030.Apart from underground sections beneath the River Stour and Dedham Vale and at Great Horkesley in Essex, it would be carried on pylons.Mr Ramsay said Green councillors who run Mid Suffolk District Council had been arguing for an alternative to be properly considered, including the idea of an offshore grid.But in a statement, National Grid said it had carefully assessed several alternative options, including offshore options, adding it had shaped its policy around public consultations already undertaken.

Meanwhile, Mr Ramsay welcomed the decision by Labour to lift a de facto ban on onshore wind farms.

“That is welcome, yes, absolutely we need to see more renewable energy in the UK of various sorts, done in the right way, and so Labour have taken a step in the right direction with that,” he said.He also called for “a nationwide programme to get people’s homes insulated in a way that keeps bills down, keeps homes warm, and that’s something we’ll be pushing the government to do much more on”.

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President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday while he was in Las Vegas for a series of events, the White House said.

In a statement, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden tested positive “following his first event in Las Vegas.”

The White House will provide regular updates on the President’s status as he continues to carry out the full duties of the office while in isolation.”

Biden, 81, has kept a full schedule in Nevada this week after questions were raised about his health and capabilities after a dismal debate performance in late June.

Biden, who had been expected to speak at the group’s event in Las Vegas, was about an hour and a half late before the announcement was made.

Biden said in an interview with BET on Tuesday that he would drop out of the presidential race if he developed a medical condition that prevented him from running.

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President Biden said in an interview released on Wednesday that he would re-evaluate whether to stay in the presidential race if a doctor told him directly that he had a medical condition that made that necessary.

But his disastrous performance at a debate with former President Donald J. Trump last month, which prompted a wave of calls by Democratic allies to step aside, raised questions about his health and acuity.

In an interview with Ed Gordon of BET News, Mr. Biden was asked if there was anything that would make him re-evaluate staying in the race.

Mr. Biden also said for the first time that he had expected to “move on” from the presidency and “pass it on to somebody else” but decided to run again because he believed his “wisdom” and experience would help heal the country’s worsening divisions.

But the president’s political advisers have said that the bridge was an eight-year span, and that his re-election to a second term would simply be a longer transition to the new generation than some had expected.

The president said something similar during a news conference in Washington this month, when a reporter asked what changed from the time he promised to be a bridge candidate.

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Prime Day, held on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, is “a major cause of injuries for the warehouse workers who make it possible,” said a report released Monday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

The data shows that during Prime Day 2019 the rate of “recordable” injuries — those Amazon is required to disclose to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration — exceeded 10 per 100 workers, more than double the average in the US warehousing and storage industry.

“These injury rates are especially egregious in light of the incredible revenue the company generates and the resources it has available to make its warehouses safe for workers,” it added.

The spokesperson also took issue with the total injury rate cited in the Senate report, saying it had come from a five-year-old internal document that had “flawed methodology and gaps in the research” and which was “rejected by experts who specialize in data analysis.”

Over the years, some Amazon workers have described the “grueling” experience of long hours racing around warehouses that can be the size of 28 football fields while the company tracks their every move.

Amazon holds Prime Day in July every year to juice sales numbers during what are typically slow summer months.

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The Norwich South MP did not refer to “his heirs and successors” after a mention of the king when he said during a swearing in last week: “I take this oath under protest and in the hope that one day my fellow citizens will democratically decide to live in a republic.

“Until that time I do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, according to law.”

Lewis said on X on Tuesday: “After omitting to swear allegiance to King Charles’ ‘heirs and successors’ last week, I’ve had to take the oath again in order to sit in the House of Commons.

He also posted a photo of a letter he received from the House of Commons Journal Office, which said his omission of part of the oath meant there was “doubt about whether the manner in which you made the affirmation is legally valid”.

His colleague Claire Hanna prefaced it in Irish and English when she was sworn in, saying: “In friendship and in hope of a reconciled new Ireland, my allegiance is to the people of Belfast South and Mid Down & I say these words in order to serve them.”

He adjourned the session after about 36 minutes, with the remaining handful of MPs who are yet to be sworn in expected to do so on Wednesday afternoon before the king’s speech debate.

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In many of these conversations, sources blamed the president’s inner circle of advisers and family for what they said has become a painstakingly choreographed daily operation designed to prevent him from being in unscripted settings for extended periods of time.

Bates did not specifically offer comment on sources telling CNN that Biden’s closest advisers are unaccepting of criticism or concerns about the president, including his age and health.

It’s a crisis of potentially historic importance, with growing fears among Democrats that Biden could drag down the party’s ticket, threaten the quest for reclaiming their House majority and further complicate efforts to hold onto Senate control.

Last September, at the ultra-private confab in Aspen, Colorado, known among attendees as “The Weekend,” Hollywood power broker and Democratic donor Ari Emanuel asked a pointed question of Ron Klain, Biden’s former chief of staff and longtime adviser.

As attendees rode a bus to another venue to hear Obama deliver a lunchtime speech, the chatter turned to Emanuel’s outburst, and the shared view that Biden, then 80, was getting over his skis: “Why doesn’t anyone protect this man?” one wondered aloud.

In the lead-up to last November’s summit between Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in California, some senior officials vehemently argued that only photos – and not video – of the two men walking side-by-side should emerge from the historic meeting.

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