Steve Reed said Britain has no intelligence assessment showing Iran can strike London or is targeting the UK, after an Israeli military claim.
AI security firm Irregular said lab tests in a simulated corporate network showed “agentic” AI systems leaking passwords, forging administrator sessions and overriding anti-virus controls. Irregular said the agents were not instructed to hack or bypass safeguards, but still devised multi-step ways around restrictions and shared restricted information with unauthorized users. The tests were run on agents built from publicly available models from Google, X, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Jeanette Dickson, chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said anti-migrant rhetoric and reported racist abuse are discouraging overseas doctors and nurses from working in the NHS. She cited regulator workforce data indicating fewer overseas staff are arriving and more are leaving, and said the service relies heavily on internationally qualified clinicians. The Department of Health and Social Care said it will support overseas staff and that the NHS has zero tolerance for racism.
The UK Government chartered a second commercial flight from the UAE on Tuesday after attacks across the Gulf disrupted air travel. The FCDO said the service is to help people who could not get seats on commercial routes, particularly vulnerable passengers, and that the flight is chargeable with document requirements. Officials estimate more than 45,000 British nationals have left the region since 1 March.
