Starmer to face MPs amid continued pressure over collapse of China spying trial – UK politics live

PM due to give statement on Middle East and India trip but opposition MPs likely to try to ask about claims of government interference in China case

Good morning. As Kiran Stacey reports, the government has today announced new plans to relax planning rules that hold up the construction of new infrastracture. It already has a bill going through parliament designed to do this, the planning and infrastructure bill, but, with the bill close to reaching the point where it clears both houses and becomes law, the government has produced a raft of amendments that will make it stronger.

That is why Steve Reed, the housing secretary, has been doing a media round this morning. But, inevitably, most of the questions have focused on China.