Will Elphicke defection backfire on Labour?
Disquiet in Labour ranks over Natalie Elphicke's defection from the Conservatives.
A boost for Labour as another Tory MP defects. But with growing disquiet amongst the Labour ranks - could the coup backfire?
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University leaders will meet at Downing Street tomorrow to discuss what the prime minister calls an βunacceptable rise in antisemitismβ on campuses. We'll speak to a Jewish student leader - and a pro-Palestinian protester who's gone on hunger strike.
As Russia's military attache is expelled for spying - what goes on behind the gates of the Russian Embassy in London?
And the sperm whale whisperer: we speak to the scientist who's been decoding the sounds from the deep that resemble a human language.
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