A Tory MP has urged the Government to ban people convicted of violence against women from running for Parliament, referring to a Reform UK member as the “convicted criminal already in our midst”.

There are more levers which could be used to tackle child poverty than scrapping the two-child benefit cap, the Deputy Prime Minister has said as the Scottish Government seeks to mitigate it.

Colin Stonehouse, 36, and David Kirkbride, 28, joined a crowd of protesters who caused damage to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Staffordshire.