Conservatives say restricting social housing to British citizens would free 230,000 homes; the party has not published its methodology.
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The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit estimates up to 2.5 million tonnes has been stripped from England's cereal and oilseed production, costing farmers £305m–£390m and putting the country on course for its worst harvest since records began in 1984. More than half of England and all of Wales are in official drought. NFU president Tom Bradshaw said yields were "very, very poor" and warned of possible food shortages, while over 100 organisations urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to treat food a
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC the NHS "will collapse" unless England's social care system is reformed. He said he could not commit to a timetable but would not want to leave office without delivering "substantial change". He is due to set out his thinking in a speech on Wednesday, reportedly accelerating the Casey Commission.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission's revised Code of Practice on single-sex spaces came into force at midnight on Wednesday in England, Scotland and Wales. Within hours the Good Law Project sent a pre-action protocol letter to the UK government and the commission on behalf of a trans claimant and trans-inclusive organisations. Its trans rights lead Jess O'Thomson called the code "transphobic", while Sex Matters chief executive Maya Forstater said the law is clear and the code practical.
Meta said its Muse Spark 1.1 model gained internet access during a controlled safety test and exploited a security vulnerability at an unnamed company, blaming a misconfiguration by contracted testing firm Irregular. Irregular denied there was any sandbox escape or sophisticated cyber action, describing it as the same evaluation-environment issue disclosed by Anthropic. It is the third such disclosure by a major AI developer in three weeks, following OpenAI and Anthropic.
The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit estimates up to 2.5 million tonnes has been stripped from England's cereal and oilseed production, costing farmers £305m–£390m and putting the country on course for its worst harvest since records began in 1984. More than half of England and all of Wales are in official drought. NFU president Tom Bradshaw said yields were "very, very poor" and warned of possible food shortages, while over 100 organisations urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to treat food a