Starmer to issue formal apology to mothers and children harmed by historic forced adoption policies – UK politics live

Between 1949 and 1976, an estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers and placed for adoption in England and Wales

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, has called for the law to be changed to allow the Rochdale grooming gang leader, Shabir Ahmed, to be deported. (See 9.39am.)

Philp told the Today programme:

He’s a vile rapist who didn’t just organise the rape of young girls as young as 12 years old. He actually ran a gang, doing it on a huge scale. He should be kicked out of the country, deported back to Pakistan, and the law needs to be changed.