Officers have warned that policing is “broken” due to funding cuts that are undermining morale and driving personnel from the force, putting pressure on the Chancellor to boost the budget and prompting Reeves to call for urgent reforms.

An official programme has identified certain hostile views on immigration as potentially requiring intervention, prompting debate over how cultural concerns might be scrutinised under measures aimed at curbing extremist ideology.

Following a newly elected MP’s call to prohibit certain religious attire, the party’s chairman stepped down in protest and ignited a heated row among senior figures, with the PM expressing disapproval of the proposal.

Reeves has backed away from scaling down green targets, with Starmer aligning with Miliband against the Chancellor’s plans to curtail key environmental commitments.