Verified Live

Coverage from the Conservative Party conference included Tom Tugendhat setting out a foreign policy vision in which projecting weakness invites challenges and threats from Russia, China and Iran. Discussion followed on how his themes tied to the conference's focus on economic security, defence and welfare, and on Conservative positions regarding China, sanctions relating to Israel, the triple lock and tax, and the challenge from Reform.

Police investigating the incident at RAF Fairford made a further arrest, a 22-year-old British man arrested in London on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism, the seventh arrest connected to the incident, with six other men released on bail. In France, protests saw tear gas fired in Marseille and clashes with police, rising arrests, school closures and casualties, with inquiries into the police response and concerns about education conditions and budget constraints. The World Health Organization said the public health risk appeared low after a laboratory technician died of the plague in Russia, while Central Asian countries tightened border checks, quarantine measures were imposed in the Irkutsk region, Moscow played down reports and the US said it was monitoring the issue.

Later, live coverage returned to France, where protests continued in Paris and other cities with burning barricades, firecrackers and rising arrests, and to the Conservative conference, where Helen Whately argued welfare reform would free up money for defence and James Cartlidge was due to set out a proposal for £1 billion a year over ten years for drone and missile defences.