Starmer to unveil 35 bills in King’s Speech and to break football barriers – live

In meetings with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, Mr Lammy made the case for working towards a two-state solution to the conflict.

The foreign secretary was also expected to announce that the UK will provide another £5.5m this year to UK-Med to fund its work in Gaza.

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The prime minister said he was “appalled” and that there was “no place” for political violence, while one of his ministers said the UK stood “shoulder to shoulder” with America.

Sir Keir spoke with Mr Trump on Sunday afternoon and is understood to have condemned the violence, expressed his condolences for the victims and their families, and wished the former president and those injured a quick recovery.

A bloodied Mr Trump was rushed from the stage to a hospital after the attempt on his life.

He said on his Truth Social media platform that a bullet had “pierced” his ear before he was dragged to the ground by Secret Service agents.

The suspected gunman was killed while the Secret Service confirmed one person in the crowd had died and two others had been “critically injured”.

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Andrew Mitchell, the shadow foreign secretary, has condemned the shooting during Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.

Reacting to the events in the US, Mr Mitchell told Sky News: “Obviously it is an appalling act of violence and wickedness and has been rightly condemned by everyone for what it is.”

He added: “We’ve had our election here and we’ve seen the coarsening of political debate. The reports back from candidates on all sides in Britain talked about that coarsening and now we see this horrific act in America so rightly condemned by President Biden and by everyone else and by our Prime Minister, too.

“And I think there are issues to be addressed on that. In Britain, it’s certainly coarsened because of social media and there are issues as I say which we need to address as a society.”

Reform’s former deputy leader Ben Habib has said the party should be made more democratic after being ousted.

Mr Habib was fired and replaced last week by Richard Tice in Nigel Farage’s shake-up he had “long held concerns about the control of the party and the decision making processes”.

He told Times Radio: “It is not about me. I couldn’t care less about the position I hold. The bigger criticism, if I have got a criticism, of the party is its own lack of democratic set up.

“It is a limited company, substantially controlled by Nigel Farage, Richard Tice has a stake in it, but as you know, in a limited company if you have got more than 51 per cent of the shares you control it.

“And I think that now that we have got seats in Parliament, we have got 4.1 million people voting for us and many more, I am sure, who would have voted for us if they’d had the courage to do so, I think it is very important that the party democratises.

“It is something I was saying to Richard actually before I joined the party and continued to say to him through the general election.”

The SNP is urging Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap if it does not move to do so itself, Stephen Flynn has said.

Mr Flynn has written to Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, urging him to instruct his party’s MPs in Scotland to support the SNP move.

The cap, introduced by the Conservatives in 2017, prevents parents claiming Universal Credit or child tax credits for a third child, except in very limited circumstances.

The SNP Westminster leader will table an amendment to the King’s Speech, which will be made on Wednesday setting out the Government’s legislative agenda. MPs then have the opportunity to debate the contents of the speech in the following days, at which point they can lay amendments to it.

Power over which amendments are selected is in the gift of the House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.

In his party’s first major intervention since the general election, Mr Flynn said the two child cap is “pushing thousands of Scottish children into poverty” and ending it is “the bare minimum” required of the new Government.

In the letter, Mr Flynn said it would be “simple” for the Government to scrap the cap “immediately” but added this was “a political choice and it requires politicians, across parties, to demand better”.

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy has hinted a possible return of the Football Governance Bill as part of the new policies unveiled at the King’s Speech on Wednesday.

The legislation aims to reform the governance of men’s football to put fans back at the hart of the game,

Asked about football legislation including scrutiny for club finances, she told Times Radio: “Well obviously, I don’t want to pre-empt what the King is going to announce.

“But I’ve been at the football twice this week and at Bury FC, my first visit to Gigg Lane where campaigners worked so hard to save their club but couldn’t manage it and are now having to rebuild – my promise to them was that this was in our manifesto, it will be a top priority for me, so I think you can read into that that there’ll be early action from this Government.

“And I’ve already discussed that with Tracey Crouch, who was the Conservative sports minister whose review was the inspiration behind this. I’m very keen that it becomes an issue that we take party politics out of and that we get behind the fans, we get behind grassroots football, and we get behind kids in this country who deserve the right standards so that those kids who were watching the game last night dreaming that one day it might be them – my job is to make sure that we put rocket boosters under that, whether it’s through more action at grassroots football which we’re announcing today or through protecting those middle-tier clubs.”

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy has said the attack on Donald Trump was “incredibly concerning” to Americans and the world.

The Labour warned it was “extremely worrying when you consider that we’ve had a lot of division, and hatred and poison spreading into politics on both sides of the Atlantic – and across Europe as well in recent times”.

Ms Sandy said the UK’s relationship with the US “matters” regardless of who is in the WhiteHouse.

She added: “It’s our intention as the newly elected government here in the UK, that whoever wins that election, that that relationship continues.”

The Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle is to write to his American counterpart stressing the importance of sharing expertise on security measures, The Independent has learned.

Kim Leadbeater, the sister of murdered MP Jo Cox, said the attack on Mr Trump raised questions about “what a civilised democracy looks like”.

The Labour MP for Spen Valley told BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: “We are back again having that conversation about what democracy looks like, what our politics looks like. I sadly feel that we are not making a huge amount of progress in this country.”

House of Commons leader Lucy Powell also said that there was a “growing sense of … hate and attacks” towards UK politicians which was “something that we need to take action on”.

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Labour’s animal-welfare and environmental policies may be better than the Tories’ – but they contain disappointing gaps, experts say.

In a YouGov poll last year, a third of voters said animal welfare was one of their top three issues.

So new environment secretary Steve Reed will come under pressure from lobby groups – and in some cases, from opposing countryside and farming factions.

It pledged a Labour government would “champion British farming whilst protecting the environment”.

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