Keir Starmer has welcomed a refreshed Brexit strategy encompassing a youth mobility scheme for younger Europeans, while The PM maintains it will not reintroduce free movement.

The PM aims to hold negotiations with up to nine nations to finalise new asylum arrangements, after an earlier proposal was rejected, seeking to establish “return hubs” abroad to ease pressure on domestic systems.

Plans to allow earlier release for those convicted of serious offences have caused concern over public safety, as prisons edge towards capacity and observers demand more stringent safeguards.

An innocent man, believed to be the nation’s longest-serving miscarriage of justice victim, spent nearly four decades behind bars on a flawed conviction before having it overturned, now facing a drawn-out wait for compensation.