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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced in the Commons this afternoon that the UK government will proscribe Palestine Action. The move comes after members of the activist group broke into RAF Brize Norton and graffitied two military planes. In a statement, Cooper said: ‘A draft proscription order will be laid in Parliament on Monday 30 June. If passed, it will make it illegal to be a member of, or invite support for, Palestine Action.’ And the Metropolitan police have taken no chances with them in London. The force has banned protests planned for today from taking place outside parliament, imposing an exclusion zone around Westminster. Meanwhile police have said that

Reform UK are on the rise – quite literally. The party is planning to move one floor up in their headquarters at Millbank Tower, giving its 40-odd staff a commanding view of Westminster from their office. That change in circumstance was reflected in Nigel Farage’s speech this morning, when he strolled in to Westminster’s Church House to set out his party’s pitch to non-doms. The Clacton MP told journalists that ‘tens of thousands’ of people would be tempted to the UK by the offer of the card The party’s headline announcement today was the launch of a new ‘Britannia card’. This would be a one-off £250,000 fee which would allow

To the Beeb, which is once again making the news rather than breaking it. BBC presenter Martine Croxall caught the attention of viewers on Sunday as she read out a news report about a heart health study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Reading the autocue, the presenter hesitated as she got to a sentence about protecting vulnerable people from extreme weather. It transpires that her script had described those at risk as those with pre-existing health conditions, the elderly and, er, ‘pregnant people’. Rolling her eyes, Croxall corrected the description on air – ‘women’ – before continuing on. Good to see some accuracy on BBC News,