Exc: Failed asylum seekers and families to be paid up to £40,000 to leave the UK within 7 days www.lbc.co.uk/article/fail...

EXC: Shabana Mahmood refuses to rule out paying failed asylum seekers & other migrants up to £30,000 as the Danes do, to encourage people to cooperate with the Home Office and leave UK earlier www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

NEW: Met confirm they're looking at Epstein files in relation to reports to them about possible misconduct in public office news.met.police.uk/news/update-...

PM's chief secretary, Darren Jones, tells MPs in Commons that the Govt believes Lord Mandelson "lied" on his disclosure and vetting before he became ambassador to the US: "when someone lies in their declarations of interest, there must be a consequence.... removal from the HOL and loss of peerage."

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tells @lbc.co.uk @fraserknight.bsky.social the Epstein files show "potential evidence of corruption in public office" & she’d support a criminal investigation into Lord Mandelson

Labour MP Andy McDonald calls on PM to go further re. Lord Mandelson, tells @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social he should have his peerage stripped: "If it does require primary legislation if he will not go, let's get on with these things." @lbc.co.uk

EXC: Rachel Reeves tells LBC student loan system is 'fair' amid fury as graduates rack up thousands of pounds of debt interest www.lbc.co.uk/article/rach...

Exclusive interview with Rachel Reeves at a pub in South East London last night, revealing: - Hotels business rates will also be looked at as part of pubs re-evaluations - Reeves partly blames working from home in Covid for why boozers are struggling

NEW: Shabana Mahmood Call the Cabinet with @LBC - Police reforms: We have learned lessons with police Scotland, hope to be still here to implement all in next parliament - Parents were shop workers - had their till stolen twice: 'We were victims ourselves, this is close to home for me'

Andy Burnham to me this morning: "What's my message to MPs? Come up to Manchester. There's a by-election about to happen. We need your help. The Greater Manchester way is built on togetherness. We don't ever here, have a politics that's about pitting people from another."

Full interview with Robert Jenrick here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2nv...

NEW: I spoke to Robert Jenrick about his defection, admitting he really did leave his speech lying around, what Badenoch really thinks of him, and political regrets: www.lbc.co.uk/article/robe...

Stephen Kinnock tells @NickFerrariLBC "Michael Gove has done huge damage to this country, he's one of the architects of having a Brexit with no plan, which led to the botching of the deal, he's been at the heart of some really damaging policies... look at the mess we ended up in."

"I think Trump did too much too soon, rather like Liz Truss did." Nigel Farage tells @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social he has 'never agreed' with the President's tariff policy.

Wuh oh! Tory MP Richard Fuller distances himself from Badenoch's comments re Labour MPs detained going into Israel: "On this, my personal view is, parliamentarians should be allowed free passage to other countries, to our allies. We should look at that in a poor light. We should be supporting them."

... "When some of her Conservative counterparts had similar relations in relation to their work in China, it was right we stuck by the idea they should not have their work interrupted in that way... the way they've been treated is unacceptable." @lbc.co.uk @lewisgoodall.com

On two Labour MPs detained after trying to get into Israel, Darren Jones says "I'm not sure it's a very responsible answer from the LOTO, British politicians all travel internationally to meet their counterparts, we expect them to be able to go about their business without interruption...

Darren Jones tells @lewisgoodall.com the UK is "ahead of the pack" on a trade deal with the US "I don't think we've embarrassed the king. We wouldn't call diplomacy, sucking up... but we're ahead of the pack on a trade agreement and we're working really hard to get that over the line" @lbc.co.uk

No chance of ripping up the fiscal rules, despite the world changing, Darren Jones tells @lewisgoodall.com "The fiscal rules are non negotiable, they continue to be non negotiable" @lbc.co.uk

Would the Gov nationalise British steel? Darren Jones tells @lewisgoodall.com "When we're talking about industrial policy and public services, all of this is about creating a stronger and more resilient UK economy... "I don't think we're in a nationalisation situation." @lbc.co.uk

Darren Jones tells @lewisgoodall.com the Government are "disappointed" by tariffs and "we don't think a trade war is in the interest of any economy but... the world has changed" and we'll be setting out work we're doing to create a "stronger and more resilient economy" this week @lbc.co.uk

Youch! Housing minister Matthew Pennycook takes a proper swipe at the Chancellor over taking free gig tickets... He tells @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social "I don't personally think it's appropriate, if I want to go to a concert at the O2, I'll pay for it." @lbc.co.uk

EXCL Kim Leadbeater tells me... - she's positive that assisted dying will still become law despite MPs jumpy after making changes - admits that laws could be changed after just 5-10 years

Six weeks until I run the London marathon! Eeek. justgiving.com/page/tashyme...

LBC Investigates: What a 13-Year-Old Girl Sees on TikTok To mark our Online Safety day, watch my investigation below to find out the sorts of content I was exposed to in just a few swipes on social media @lbc.co.uk @globalplayer.com www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/lbc-...

Exclusive polling for LBC reveals that 83% of parents are worried about the impact that social media is having on their children. LBC's Helen Hoddinott speaks to Nick Ferrari on Online Safety Day.

Jonathan Hall, Independent terror watchdog chief, tells @lbc.co.uk "The Sentencing Council guidelines are law, I think it's a total wrong turn... it's obviously wrong and I'm sure it'll be corrected". @tomswarbrick.bsky.social

‘We're going to have a deal done rather quickly’ Barack Obama once said the UK would be “at the back of the queue” for a trade deal after Brexit. Now, Donald Trump tells LBC's @natashaclark.bsky.social things are different.

Go Inside The White House with @natashaclark.bsky.social:

“Who else was he speaking about?” “It honestly made me so angry." @natashaclark.bsky.social and @mrjamesob.bsky.social are united in their disdain for Kemi Badenoch after she defended JD Vance’s description of Britain as ‘some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years.’

Independent reviewer of terrorism, Jonathan Hall, ahead of his review out looking at Prevent and definition of terror next week, tells @tomswarbrick.bsky.social he won't be recommending the Home Office change the definition of terror.

Move on the cards for CCHQ from Matthew Parker Street, as looks like Tories won't have the cash to be able to renew it, Aggie Chamber reveals to @andrewmarr.bsky.social

Keir Starmer on the threat of tariffs from Donald Trump, tells Beth Rigby: "it's early days, what's important is open trading relationships, that's been the basis of my conversations with President Trump"

Damning verdict on new Ofsted judgements from Ruth Perry’s sister Julia Waters. She tells @lbc.co.uk it still has "headline type single-word judgements" containing "public shaming and humiliation" Calls it "dangerous" and says they've "not been hearing" Ofsted are "incapable of reforming themselves"

NEW: Leaked Home Office review seen by LBC says Online Safety Act needs to be beefed up further (already!) to stop repeat of last summer's riots www.lbc.co.uk/news/online-...

Feels like maybe this is the kind of red tape that could create some growth and prison places... good story from @fraserknight.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/news/prison-...

‘This is the start of Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer putting the fight back into the British economy.’ The Chancellor’s speech was ‘quite an optimistic vision’, @natashaclark.bsky.social tells @mrjamesob.bsky.social.

‘Is this an encouraging sign for the British economy?’ ‘Or are you gaslighting British businesses?’ @natashaclark.bsky.social presses Rachel Reeves following her speech.

Great story from @lbc.co.uk 's Alan Zycinski www.lbc.co.uk/news/porn-cr...

Chancellor is set to relax some non dom transition arrangements frm Budget Amendment on "temporary repatriation facility" - not to extend transition, but to clarify what people can bring/how much ££/funds Meaning they won't be taxed twice Gov sources say this is a "tweak" not a "reversal".

Michael Gove tells @NickFerrariLBC he'd go for a fourth runway at Heathrow: "Expanding it, it's right, I'd go for a fourth runway. We need to build, baby, build, out West." @lbc.co.uk @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social

Tech bros in the Court of the Sunny Delight king & the chances of Starmer reining them in. Prince Harry’s defeat of the Murdoch empire. PMQs @natashaclark.bsky.social @explaintrade.com on, er, trade @nafeez.bsky.social on his very timely new book, Alt Reich www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...