Chinese spying amounts to interference in UK democracy, minister says, after MI5 warns MPs – as it happened

Dan Jarvis, the security minister, says China is trying to contact MPs and peers to get sensitive information about parliament. This live blog is closed

Back at the Reform UK press conference, Zia Yusuf, the party’s head of policy, has just finished outlining his plan to cut spending on foreigners

As he finished, Yusuf claimed this was “treachery”.

Labour is making the conscious and deliberate decision to continue funding extortionate amounts to foreign nationals, to the detriment of British citizens.

And I don’t know what to call that. Frankly, in my view, it’s treachery. I think it’s appalling. British people are sick and tired of it.

Just a few months ago, Rachel Reeves was saying she couldn’t afford to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Now it looks like becoming her latest U-turn.

This isn’t because the economic circumstances have improved. Quite the opposite.