I invited women from Piddington to Parliament because Labour isn’t listening to them. Their village of 300 faces over 1,200 male illegal migrants on its doorstep. Meanwhile, Labour is handing out leaflets explaining to these men that rape is a crime. You couldn’t make it up. Today we forced a vote to stop it. Labour and the Lib Dems refused to back us. Women should feel safe in their communities. Conservatives will leave the ECHR so we can deport illegal migrants instead of forcing small villages to bear the consequences.

Labour won't cut welfare to fund defence.

Today at PMQs, Keir Starmer selectively quoted Olly Robbins’ evidence at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Starmer said on Mandelson’s vetting: "no pressure existed whatsoever in relation to this case". But Robbins’ own written evidence to the Committee talks of an “atmosphere of pressure" from No10. On Monday, Robbins told the Committee: "Throughout January, honestly, my office and the Foreign Secretary’s office were under constant pressure. There was an atmosphere of constant chasing". Starmer was therefore wrong to say that "no pressure existed whatsoever". He must correct the record immediately.