## Key events

- Afternoon summary
- What industry insiders and experts say about the planning and infrastructure bill
- Industrial action by criminal barristers in Northern Ireland causing 'serious damage', Stormont told
- Labour rebels back amendment to employment rights bill to boost paternity leave
- Starmer tells cabinet ministers they should stop 'outsourcing' decisions to regulators and quangos
- Greens party claims plans reportedly drawn up to cut PIP disability benefit would be 'cruelty for cruelty's sake'

## Politics live with Andrew Sparrow

### Northern Ireland

- **Jonathan Hinder**: He was shocked by the tone of the letter released by the  Council last night. He said that “we’ve given too much power away to these unelected bodies in recent years” and that he would back the government in restoring “equality before the law”.
- **Shabana Mahmood**: The justice secretary confirmed that she was willing to change the law if necessary to get the guidelines changed.

## Latest News

### Politics: MPs highlight ITN’s use of NDAs in employment rights debate – as it happened

4d ago

Loudspeaker: Louise Haigh is promoting an amendment to the employment rights bill. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/REX/Shutterstock

- **Louise Haigh**: The Labour former transport secretary has given a speech promoting her amendment that would ban the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that would prevent workers revealing the harassment they endured, including sexual harassment. Haigh and the Lib Dem MP **Layla Moran** both gave detailed examples of how ITN used NDAs to cover up cases of harassment in the workplace to support their case.
- **Layla Moran**: The Justice Secretary confirmed that she was willing to change the law if necessary to get the guidelines changed.

### Media: Metropolitan police say they will investigate Reform UK's allegations about Rupert Lowe, as he calls them 'entirely untrue'

4d ago


- **Jessica Elgot**: The Guardian's deputy political editor says she is shocked by the tone of the letter released by the Sentencing Council last night. He said that "we’ve given too much power away to these unelected bodies in recent years" and that he would back the government in restoring "equality before the law".

### UK Home News

- **Jonathan Hinder**: He was disappointed by the tone of the letter released by the Sentencing Council last night. He said that "we’ve given too much power away to these unelected bodies in recent years" and that he would back the government in restoring "equality before the law".
- **Shabana Mahmood**: The justice secretary confirmed that she was willing to change the law if necessary to get the guidelines changed.
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