A three hour emergency debate on foreign aid cuts is taking place in the Commons
Andrew Mitchell says MPs opposed to aid cut have been described as rebels, "but it is the government that is rebelling" against its manifesto promise to keep the 0.7pc target
Boris Johnson's foreign aid cut is an "unlawful and unethical betrayal", says Andrew Mitchell
My beginner's guide to the Robert Jenrick/Richard Desmond planning row in 8 tweets 👇
🏗️Richard Desmond, the billionaire former newspaper tycoon, applied for planning permission to build a £1bn development, including 1,500 homes, on the site of the old Westferry printworks on the Isle of Dogs
🍽️ In November, Desmond sat next to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick at a Tory fundraising dinner at the Savoy Hotel and played him a video about the scheme on his mobile phone
Robert Jenrick refuses to apologise for moving between his homes in London and Herefordshire. Government guidance is that people should not be living in their second homes
A reminder for those saying he's not broken the rules by shifting to his home in Herefordshire:
+ the govt has told people not to stay in their 2nd homes
+ he and his wife work in London
+ his children go to school in London
+ his own website says he lives in London and Newark
Government on 23 March told people staying in second homes to return to their primary residence asap