Paul McNamara , Senior Political Correspondent

How is the news of David Cameron’s shock return to government going down with voters?

The Home Secretary Suella Braverman has expressed her “full backing” for the police at a meeting with the Met police chief Sir Mark Rowley – amid the growing row over her article in the Times which criticised the policing of pro-Palestinian protests.  

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is facing more pressure over the party’s stance on the Israel Hamas conflict – after a member of his frontbench team resigned.

It’s the last King’s Speech before the next general election, which polls suggest the Conservatives are on course to lose. But is it likely to change anyone’s minds? Our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara looks at how the King’s Speech has gone down in two marginal constituencies, Stevenage and Mansfield.

Hot off the heels of the interest rate announcement, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was in Stevenage in Hertfordshire at a building-site, laying out Labour’s plans on the economy. 

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Rishi Sunak by phone this afternoon, who said the UK backed Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism, but stressed the importance of “all possible measures to minimise civilian casualties”. The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who’s been facing growing tensions within his party ranks, also backed…

They were rock solid Tory seats with huge majorities – but Labour managed to pull off a double by-election victory – taking Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire, in a dismal night for the Conservative party.

Rishi Sunak has called for a “calm and cool response” to the Gaza hospital blast – while intelligence services take time to establish the facts. Pro-Palestinian supporters have gathered outside Downing Street this evening at a vigil for victims.

Many countries in the Middle East have urged Israel to hold off on plans for an all-out assault on northern Gaza. With roads turned to rubble by air strikes and fuel running out, the UN says it’s impossible to evacuate such a huge number of people in such a short space of time. And for…

We look at the reaction here in the UK to the shocking events in Israel and Gaza.

While HS2 was deemed integral to the government’s levelling up project, the Northern Research Group of MPs, many of whose seats are in so-called red wall areas, have indicated recently they’d accept a compromise over connections to London as long as East-West links connecting Northern cities get built.

Theresa May has become the third former prime minister to oppose scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the HS2 rail project. And it’s Manchester where the Conservative party faithful are now gathering for their annual conference. Our senior political correspondent Paul Mcnamara is there with them.

It’s an accolade that Rishi Sunak’s government would rather not have been awarded. The Institute of Fiscal studies has said that it will have presided over the biggest set of tax rises since the Second World War. 

Rishi Sunak has insisted he remains committed to his “levelling up” agenda – amid the growing row over the future of the HS2 high speed rail link to the North of England. 

How is the Prime Minister’s change of messaging on the government’s green strategy playing out with voters and businesses?