The charity said an urgent precautionary action letter, sent to the Home Office earlier this week, represented the first action taken against the Home Secretary for the unlawful treatment of people held at the facility and involved a woman held there. The letter, sent by lawyers for Duncan Lewis, representing Detention Action and the claimant, said the woman, from a non-European country, was “unlawfully detained by the Home Secretary at the Manston facility in grossly defective conditions”. The complaint also includes “serious threats to the safety of children”, the charity said. Concerns raised by the woman and the charity about the site near Ramsgate include: The regular extension of detention beyond the time limits prescribed by law. failure to observe basic child protection measures; women and children sleeping next to adult men with whom they are not related. inadequate or non-existent access to legal advice for those detained; and exposure to infectious diseases due to overcrowding and poor sanitation. Detention Action deputy director James Wilson added: We have taken this action out of grave concern for the welfare of thousands of people, including children, who continue to be held at Manston for periods far beyond the legal limit. We are calling on the Home Secretary to declare that anyone held at Manston for more than 24 hours is being held unlawfully. We are also asking the Home Secretary to allow access to the premises to organizations qualified to provide support in immigration detention. Detainees wrapped in blankets inside the immigration detention center in Manston. Photo: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 16:44 GMT Important events BETA filters Key Facts (19)Suela Braverman (8)Rishi Sunak (6)Liz Truss (5)Keir Starmer (3) Jeremy Hunt is considering raising taxes on dividends, the Financial Times reports. In a move he says could raise many billions of pounds, Hunt says he has “asked officials to consider increasing the tax rate on dividends as well as reducing the tax-free allowance for dividends”. The FT say no decision has been made on whether to go ahead with it. Updated at 16:45 GMT

Lawyers for the charity Detention Action are threatening legal action against Suella Braverman, the home secretary, over conditions at Manston immigration detention center in Kent, PA Media reports. The charity said an urgent precautionary action letter, sent to the Home Office earlier this week, represented the first action taken against the Home Secretary for the unlawful treatment of people held at the facility and involved a woman held there. The letter, sent by lawyers for Duncan Lewis, representing Detention Action and the claimant, said the woman, from a non-European country, was “unlawfully detained by the Home Secretary at the Manston facility in grossly defective conditions”. The complaint also includes “serious threats to the safety of children”, the charity said. Concerns raised by the woman and the charity about the site near Ramsgate include: The regular extension of detention beyond the time limits prescribed by law. failure to observe basic child protection measures; women and children sleeping next to adult men with whom they are not related. inadequate or non-existent access to legal advice for those detained; and exposure to infectious diseases due to overcrowding and poor sanitation. Detention Action deputy director James Wilson added: We have taken this action out of grave concern for the welfare of thousands of people, including children, who continue to be held at Manston for periods far beyond the legal limit. We are calling on the Home Secretary to declare that anyone held at Manston for more than 24 hours is being held unlawfully. We are also asking the Home Secretary to allow access to the premises to organizations qualified to provide support in immigration detention. Detainees wrapped in blankets inside the immigration detention center in Manston. Photo: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 16:44 GMT

Sturgeon says she will attend Cop27 climate summit to show Scotland will ‘do its bit’ to achieve Glasgow climate pact

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said she was “determined” the country would play its part in tackling the climate emergency ahead of the Cop27 summit. As PA Media reports, Sturgeon will attend the UN talks, which begin in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Sunday. Speaking at First Minister’s Questions in Edinburgh, he said: If the world is to meet the Glasgow climate accord, all nations must continue to raise that ambition and take credible action to achieve net zero emissions. In the coming days, I will be attending Cop27 to do what I can to further co-operation between Scotland and other countries to build on the agreements reached in Glasgow and to continue Scotland’s leadership, particularly on the issue of loss and damage . Although we are not yet a member state of the UN or a party to the Paris Agreement, Scotland will do its part by sharing our own experiences of achieving net zero targets at home as part of a just transition, and also helping to strengthen of the voices of those most affected by climate change but also too often excluded from the debate. Nicola Sturgeon in the Scottish Parliament today. Photo: Ken Jack/Getty Images Updated at 16:30 GMT

UK to start talks with Mauritius to reach deal on future of Chagos Islands, says Smart

Maybe Jeremy Corbyn lives in Rishi Sunak’s head after all. (See 3.10pm) Corbyn has campaigned for years on behalf of the Chagossians, the Chagos Islanders who were driven from their homes in the British Indian Ocean Territory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. so that the US can build and operate a military base in Diego Garcia. Since then they have been asking for the right to return. Today, in a written Commons statement, James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, says the UK and Mauritius, which claims the islands as part of its territory, are to begin talks to resolve “all outstanding issues”, including of fate. of the Chagossians, early next year. Cleverly he says the talks follow a conversation between Liz Truss and Pravind Jugnauth, the Prime Minister of Mauritius, at the United Nations General Assembly when Truss was Prime Minister. He says: Through negotiations, taking into account the relevant legal procedures, it is our intention to secure an agreement based on international law to resolve all outstanding issues, including those related to the former inhabitants of the Chagos archipelago. This will enable the UK and Mauritius, as close Commonwealth partners, to work even more closely together to address the regional and global security challenges we all face. It also says both sides agreed that any deal must ensure the “continued effective operation” of the military base in Diego Garcia, “which plays a vital role in regional and global security.” American bombers at the air base at Diego Garcia. Photo: Images from History/Universal Images Team/Getty Images Updated at 16:21 GMT Suella Braverman traveled by helicopter from Dover to Manston immigration processing centre, about 20 miles away, the Telegraph’s Jack Maidment reports. Suella Braverman traveled by Chinook helicopter on her way to Manston Asylum Processing Center this afternoon. He was in Dover before that, about 20 miles away. It is not clear why the Chinook was used. — Jack Maidment (@jrmaidment) November 3, 2022 Suella Braverman is pictured after landing a Chinook helicopter on her way to visit Manston this afternoon. Photo: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images Matt Hancock will be paid around £400,000 to appear on I’m a Celebrity, reports Andy Halls in the Sun: A source said: “Matt’s fee deal with I’m A Celebrity is around £400,000, which is one of the biggest show fees ever paid. “ITV were keen for viewers to believe the deal was worth around £150,000 but in reality it is more than double that. “They asked him to be on the show three times in a few weeks and the money definitely helped seal the deal. Hancock said he would give part of his fee to a hospice in his constituency and some to dyslexia charities. He also said he would declare what is being paid in the register of members’ interests. Updated at 15:51 GMT

Corbyn slams Sunak for giving MPs ‘completely inaccurate’ description of Labour’s 2019 manifesto

Jeremy Corbyn has criticized Rishi Sunak for giving MPs a false account of his views and the content of Labour’s 2019 manifesto. Speaking in the Commons, Corbyn also joked that he was living “rent-free” in the prime minister’s head, based on what Sunak said at PMQs yesterday. During his exchanges with Keir Starmer yesterday, Sunak said Starmer said in 2019 that Corbyn, then Labor leader, would make a great prime minister. Sunak continued: Let’s remember this national security agenda: abolish our armed forces, dismantle our nuclear deterrent, withdraw from NATO, vote down every anti-terror law we’ve tried, and befriend Hamas and Hezbollah. There was nothing in Labour’s 2019 manifesto that even remotely matched any of these five propositions, although most of them were fully or loosely aligned with positions Corbyn took at some point in his career before becoming Labor leader. Workers. Taking issue with the proceedings, Corbyn said Sunak didn’t warn him about what he was going to say…