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A teenage boy is being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder after a male teacher was stabbed at a Gloucestershire secondary school this morning. The teacher was attacked in a corridor and suffered a single wound, Gloucestershire Police assistant chief constable Richard Ocone said at a press conference this afternoon. The teacher is in a stable condition. The suspect was arrested at around 11 a.m. – two hours after the attack – by firearms officers in Stoke Orchard, around five miles from the school. Ocone added that the motivation is unclear – but it is not thought to be terror-related. The parent of an eight-year-old at Tewkesbury Academy told the BBC

The death of Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood means that Britain has lost a great jurist – but also, unusually in this era, a formidable parliamentarian as well. He was a modest, unassuming man (few non-lawyers will know his name), yet he made a remarkable contribution to the law and government of this country, embodying the best of the common law constitutional tradition, which requires judges to be independent, not only from the executive, but also from one another.  Simon Brown was appointed to the High Court in 1984, becoming a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1992 and then a Law Lord in 2004. He was one of the last of the old

Will Labour and the Tories be heading into the next election ‘following the same tram lines on spending?’ That was the question the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg put to Rachel Reeves this morning, as the shadow chancellor insisted once again that the Labour party is committed to fiscal discipline, promising to ‘not play fast and loose with the public finances’. Labour may not need to show a radical difference in spending priorities if they can stand out in other areas Reeves tried to suggest the differences in tax-and-spend policy would still be significant, citing Labour’s proposed changes to non-domiciled tax status in the UK. But if this is really going to

The papers were heavily focused today on the allegations that a BBC presenter paid a 17-year-old for sexually explicit photos. The mother of the victim has claimed that the presenter stayed on air for weeks after the complaint was made. The shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves told Sophy Ridge on Sky that this scandal goes beyond the BBC and questioned wider investigations processes. She also said that the Corporation and other broadcasters ‘need to get a grip’. Rachel Reeves – cluster bombs are not an appropriate weapon Reeves said she was concerned that the US had agreed to supply Ukraine with cluster bombs. The bombs are banned under the Geneva Convention

George Osborne’s happy day hasn’t gone as smoothly as the ex-Chancellor would have liked. First, he had to call in police to investigate alleged online harassment after a so-called ‘poison pen’ email was sent to guests of his wedding. And then, following the ceremony itself, a protestor decided to cover the groom in orange confetti along with his new bride Thea Rogers. The confetti was similar to that seen at Wimbledon this week, with Just Stop Oil subsequently issuing a string of tweets suggesting Osborne was a legitimate target for environmental protests. They claimed that he ‘carries a heavy responsibility’ for governments’ inaction on climate change and tweeted articles from Osborne’s