Redbird IMI, the Abu Dhabi-funded investment vehicle, has formally pulled out of plans to buy The Telegraph and Spectator after opposition from the government

It says it wants to carry out the sale of the titles 'as smoothly and efficiently as possible'

NEW: The Home Office can only locate 38 per cent of the migrants it intends to deport to Rwanda.

Only 2,143 of the 5,700 of the migrants Rwanda has agreed to accept 'continue to report to the Home Office and can be located for detention'.

Info slipped out by Home Office in a

Breaking:

Yougov poll suggests there is a world in which Tories could hold *both* West Midlands and Tees Valley mayoralties - but it is very, very tight

Houchen is narrowly ahead in Tees Valley

Street is only just ahead in West Mids but Yougov says it's within margin of error

Humza Yousaf is preparing to quit as Scotland’s first minister after coming to the conclusion that his position is no longer tenable, ⁦Kieran Andrews⁩ reports

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For the avoidance of any doubt on a Sunday afternoon Rishi Sunak *will not* be calling a general election tomorrow

The plan is still to hold an election in the Autumn - most likely November 14 - although after the locals it could all become much less predictable

Tory rebels draw up plans for 100-day 'policy blitz' as they intensify plans to oust Rishi Sunak

5 point plan includes:

*Attempting to end junior doctor pay dispute with 10-12% pay rise

* Pledging to reduce net migration to tens of thousands, scrapping graduate visas

Chris Philp, home office minister, concedes that voters are ‘grumpy’ with the government
 
He tells Laura Kuenssberg

‘Clearly at the moment people do feel grumpy with the government

‘But as we get closer to an election it’s not so much a referendum on grumpiness, it becomes a choice.

Rishi Sunak sounds frustrated as he is pressed by Trevor Phillips over polls showing his personal ratings have collapsed

Sunak: 'It's the fourth or fifth question you have asked where you have talked about polls

'I tell you what I do every day. I get up and work hard to deliver

Rishi Sunak repeatedly declines to rule out a July election in an interview with Trevor Phillips

Q: Just answer my question about July and we can move on. So, it could be July?

A: I'm not going to do that.... I give you the same answer every time

Sunak allies clear he wants a

Times weekend read:
 
No 10 buoyed after Rwanda and defence announcements - but have voters simply stopped listening?
 
Cabinet minister: ‘Even if we found a cure for cancer and made the Sun shine every day we still wouldn’t get credit for it’
 
Morale remains low ahead of locals

As the first journalists inside MBDA's Storm Shadow production facility, classified 'secret', we watched as a group of highly skilled technicians assembled the weapons by hand Steven Swinford thetimes.co.uk/article/81b0dc…

NEW: Crew onboard HMS Diamond yesterday as the ship became the first Royal Navy warship to shoot down a ballistic missile in combat

Rishi Sunak has announced a £75bn increase in defence funding up to 2030

But how will it be paid for?

He says it will be 'fully funded' - with no increase in borrowing or debt - which suggests it will have to come from within the existing spending envelope, which is already

Rishi Sunak confirms that the Tories plan to increase defence spending to 2.5% by 2030

He is reinstating a pledge first made by Boris Johnson, but one that Sunak declined to endorse during the campaign for the Tory leadership

It opens a potential dividing line with Labour.

How a long night of ping pong is shaping up as MPs and peers vote on Rwanda bill:

18.00 Commons votes down Lords' amendments

20.00 Cross-bench peers table narrowed amendments

22.00 Amendments sent back to Commons

23.00 Commons expected to vote down new Lords amendments

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Chris Cash, parliamentary aide accused of spying for China, is to be charged with espionage offences

Cash, 29, will be charged under the Official Secrets Act with providing prejudicial information to a foreign State

Christopher Berry, 32, will also appear at Westminster

Times weekend read:

Will Rishi Sunak call an early election?

Growing talk in Downing Street that he could go to polls in June or July amid concerns that tax cuts are failing to cut through, limiting the political advantage of an Autumn election

Waiting also increases the risk