Sir Keir Starmer will insist on Tuesday that there is “light at the end of this tunnel” in an attempt to convince the country and his party to put up with “short-term” financial pain.

In his first speech to the Labour conference since becoming Prime Minister, Sir Keir will warn he cannot lower taxes until he fills the spending “black hole” left by the Conservatives.

Striking a more positive note, he will look beyond a tough Budget next month and argue that Labour can bring back “joy” in people’s lives over the next five years.

Higher economic growth, lower NHS waiting lists, stronger borders and a cleaner energy system will be singled out as the benefits if the public finances are stabilised.

The approach is a deliberate attempt to counter criticism – including from around his Cabinet table – that the Prime Minister has been too gloomy in his rhetoric since taking office.

‘This will be tough in the short term’

It is also an acknowledgement of the backlash to removing the winter fuel payments from 10 million pensioners, a policy move that triggered boos at the conference in Liverpool on Monday.

Sir Keir will say in his speech: “The politics of national renewal are collective. They involve a shared struggle. A project that says, to everyone, this will be tough in the short term, but in the long term – it’s the right thing to do for our country. And we all benefit from that.”

He will add: “The truth is that if we take tough long-term decisions now, if we stick to the driving purpose behind everything we do: higher economic growth – so living standards rise in every community; our NHS facing the future – waiting lists at your hospital down; safer streets in your community; stronger borders; more opportunities for your children; clean British energy powering your home; making our country more secure… then that light at the end of this tunnel, that Britain that belongs to you, we get there much more quickly.”

The speech will aim to justify the difficult financial decisions Labour is expected to take in the Budget on Oct 30, echoing warnings from Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, that tax rises and spending cuts are being considered for next month.

‘Political black hole’

Sir Keir will say: “It will be hard. That’s not rhetoric, it’s reality. It’s not just that financial black hole, the £22 billion of unfunded spending commitments, concealed from our country by the Tories, it’s not just the societal black hole – our decimated public services leaving communities held together by little more than goodwill – it’s also the political black hole.

“Just because we all want low taxes and good public services, does not mean that the iron law of properly funding policies can be ignored. We have seen the damage that does, and I will not let that happen again. I will not let Tory economic recklessness hold back the working people of this country.”

The explicit warning that “low taxes” cannot be delivered until the public finances are secured is another indication that increases can be expected next month.

Labour has ruled out raising income tax rates, National Insurance, VAT or the Corporation Tax rate, but Capital Gains Tax and inheritance tax increases remain possible.

Ms Reeves on Monday indicated that the tax burden, already at a 70-year high, will inevitably be pushed higher next month when the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) publishes forecasts. The OBR forecast will include tax increases, such as applying VAT to private school fees, already put in place.

There has been criticism that the focus on the Tory inheritance has disillusioned voters, with Sir Keir’s personal approval ratings plummeting since the July election victory.

‘Too much gloom, not enough light’

One Cabinet minister told The Telegraph this week: “There has been too much gloom and not enough light.”

A trade union revolt over the winter fuel payments cut has led to a vote on the policy at conference being delayed to Wednesday, when most senior Labour figures will have left, but Sir Keir’s team still think they will lose.

The vote is not binding on policy but a rebuke from conference over one of the first financial decisions taken by Labour in office would be an embarrassment for No 10.

Sir Keir will say: “I know this country is exhausted by and with politics. I know that the cost-of-living crisis drew a veil over the joy and wonder in our lives and that people want respite and relief, and may even have voted Labour for that reason.”

There will also be repeated references to leading a “government of service”, with Sir Keir promising at one point to “put respect and service deep in the bones of our institutions”.

It remains to be seen if Sir Keir will make reference to the row over donations of clothing, glasses and apartments from the Labour peer Lord Alli – who was photographed at the conference on Monday – in the speech.

Commuters were warned of the potential for further transport delays on Tuesday after heavy rain and flooding hit southern and central England.

Parts of Britain were struck by flash floods on Monday after some areas saw more than a month’s worth of rainfall in 24 hours.

The A421 was closed on Monday night between the A6 and the M1, and the A5 between the A421 and A509, with warnings that closures could continue into Tuesday.

Tuesday is expected to be drier, but further showers are forecast to develop through the week.

The Environment Agency said that although the flood risk would reduce “we continue to urge people to keep an eye on the weather, check their flood risk, and take care planning their journeys”.

Schools across Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Warwickshire and Hertfordshire were forced to shut on Monday morning.

At least 45 properties were flooded across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Kent and the Home Counties, the Environment Agency said, despite many erecting flood barriers as the water approached on Sunday.

Tim Maher and Carol Findon, from Grendon, Northamptonshire, saw their two-storey home partially submerged overnight with more than a foot of water.

Mr Maher told the PA news agency: “We’ve had an awful lot of rain in recent days and some forecasters were warning we could see a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours.

“I have an app on my phone which tracks river levels and at around 8.45pm it rocketed up.

“I decided to drive down to the bridge and saw the water breaking the banks and coming down the road towards me.

“I quickly turned around, drove home and put up a flood barrier we’ve got up against the door. It kept out a lot of the water but we’ve had about an inch overnight.

“We’ve had some damage to the carpets, settees and other furniture. The most difficult bit will be drying out the structure.

“We haven’t had much sleep and at least eight houses on our road have been impacted. It would be nice to get a permanent solution to this problem.”

Kirsty Brewer, a hairdresser in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, said it was the fourth time the business she worked in had flooded in the last six or seven years.

The 31 year-old said floodwater had reached knee height on High Street South on Sunday.

She said flooding was almost a “once-a-year thing”, which had forced the business to adapt by moving electrical items higher.

“It started yesterday afternoon when the whole of Dunstable was flooded. It was up to your knee deep, the road comes down so we’re sitting in a bit of a well,” she said.

“We don’t open on Sundays or Mondays, so it’s not affected business in that way, it’s just a big clean-up. It was full of mud when we got here at 9am.”

The RAC called on drivers to take “extreme care” and avoid driving through water deeper than 10cm.

The Met Office warned people not to drive, swim or walk through floodwater. It said anyone living in a flood risk zone should consider parking their car in a safer area, storing their valuables high up and charging mobile phones.

Forecasters said there may be more warnings in the week ahead.

In Luton, flooding on Sunday delayed some journeys to the airport and footage showed debris flying in a suspected mini tornado.

A football match between Newcastle and AFC Wimbledon was postponed as a result of “extensive overnight flooding” that left an apparent sinkhole in the pitch.

Power cuts hit several areas of Nottingham overnight into Monday, but service had been restored by the morning.

Steve Willington, the Met Office’s chief meteorologist, said: “Following wet weather in recent days, rain, heavy at times, is influencing today’s weather for much of England and parts of Wales.

“The higher totals are likely within the amber warning area, where some will see 60-80mm of rain through the day while a few places could see in excess of 120mm.”

Police said road closures were in place across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire on Monday after “substantial flooding” overnight.

Bedfordshire Police said it had closed part of Dunstable High Street, with footage on social media showing cars driving in deep water. Central Bedfordshire council said flooding had hit Flitwick, Cranfield and Marston Moretaine.

The average September rainfall across the UK is around 100mm (4 inches).

The rain came after a final burst of summer at the end of the last week as high pressure brought warmer than average temperatures.

The autumn equinox on Sunday marked the end of summer and the start of autumn.

Pubs could be forced to close their doors early under “nanny state” measures to target harmful drinking.

In a move to roll back the “Continental cafe-style of drinking culture” introduced by Sir Tony Blair, Andrew Gwynne, the public health minister, said the Government was considering “tightening up the hours of operation” of bars and pubs.

Mr Gwynne said the idea was being examined by ministers as part of efforts to improve health and tackle anti-social behaviour.

Prof Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer, has told ministers that if current trends continue, 60 per cent of the NHS budget will eventually be spent on diseases that could have been prevented. The current figure is 40 per cent.

The crackdown on drinking is under consideration alongside measures to target obesity, including pushing the food industry to reduce the fat, sugar and salt content of everyday foods.

Insisting Labour was “not the fun police” nor “supernanny”, Mr Gwynne said the case for such measures was both moral and economic.

He said the state of Britain’s poor health was “morally reprehensible” and that “bluntly there isn’t enough money” for the NHS to cope with rising demand without such actions.

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer said Labour was considering banning smoking in pub gardens, despite warnings it could be the “death knell” of the pub.

Speaking at the Labour conference, Mr Gwynne said: “These are discussions that we have got to have – even if it’s just about tightening up on some of the hours of operation; particularly where there are concerns that people are drinking too much.”

Chris Snowdon, the head of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said the move was at odds with the introduction of laws allowing pubs to apply for 24-hour drinking licences under Sir Tony’s government.

“The last Labour government’s decision to relax licensing laws was a great success but it seems the new Government wants to hammer pubs any way it can,” he said.

Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, said a shift to prevention of disease instead of treatment was key to averting the need for tax rises, insisting the public was “ahead of” politicians in seeking measures to protect their health.

The Prime Minister has created a health mission board, chaired by Mr Streeting, under which ministers from other departments are asked to consider the health benefits and risks of all their policies.

Mr Gwynne said the board was working on a five-point plan, encompassing smoking, obesity, alcohol, inactivity and clean air, ahead of the spending review.

He said: “Alcohol harm is one of the key areas: the availability of alcohol, the harms that overdrinking does, domestic violence, the licensing laws.”

The minister said a clampdown in licensing hours could cut crime as well as improving health.

“Actually there is a big win for the Home Office because a lot of domestic violence they have to deal with is as a direct consequence of alcohol,” Mr Gwynne said.

Asked about Sir Chris’s views on reining in licensing laws, he said: “He is very keen that there is a refresh of the licensing laws”, with alcohol-related deaths having risen a third since 2019.

A Department for Health spokesman said: “It is categorically untrue that the Government is considering changing alcohol licensing hours.”

The hospitality industry said any restriction to licensing hours would be “half-baked” and could force even more closures at a time when 50 pubs were closing every month.

Mr Snowdon said: “We already have 50 pubs a month closing and any move to ban outside smoking and restrict hours will put more at risk.

“Ministers’ full-throated support for nanny-state measures is very concerning and should be resisted for the protection of this country’s heritage.”

The Government has held two meetings of its health mission board, which is chaired by Mr Streeting.

His public health minister said that at the first meeting, Sir Chris “set out in particularly stark terms the challenge facing the Government”.

Mr Gwynne said: “To put it bluntly, there isn’t enough money to carry on with the rate of demand.

“At the moment 40 per cent of the NHS budget is spent on preventive disease – the consequence of it. If we just stay as we are putting more money into it, meeting the demographic challenges, it rises to 60 per cent. Now that is not sustainable.”

Sir Chris’s presentation showed that women in poorer areas have a life expectancy of just 70, compared with 80 in more affluent parts. It also showed that those in the poorest areas fall into ill-health by the age of 52.

Mr Gwynne said: “That is a moral scandal but it is also the economics of the madhouse.

“That’s why Wes [Streeting] says we are not in the game of being the fun police, or ‘supernanny’ wanting to bear down on all the fun things in life.

“This is actually an economic argument and a moral argument that it is not sustainable and it is morally reprehensible that someone falls into ill-health at the age of 52 with entirely preventable disease.”

The Labour MP said he also wanted to see more action to enforce the current licensing regime and more prompt action to close down pubs that break licensing laws.

Alcohol deaths have risen since 2019, with more than 10,000 deaths from alcohol-related causes.

On Monday, Mr Streeting told a fringe meeting at the conference that the next spending review “will be mission driven”, saying: “I think the public have been ahead of our politicians for some time, and wanting real action on public health.”

He said that without a shift to prevention, backed by NHS reform, Britain would see higher taxes, or more people forced to go private. The health service was “one of the biggest fiscal risks to the future of our public financing”, he said.

“The choice is health service reform, or no health service and public health reform, or higher costs of healthcare, either through higher taxes, or more people paying to go private because the health service isn’t there for them when they need,” he said.

Prof Sir Ian Gilmore, the chairman of Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said: “We welcome any move by this Government to reduce alcohol harm using evidence-based policies such as tackling licensing hours. However, this must include off-trade premises as well as pubs and bars. It is scandalous that a bottle of vodka can still be bought at 2am in a petrol station.”

Kate Nicholls, the chief executive of UKHospitality, said licensing reforms had not been raised with the sector.

She said: “As the Deputy Prime Minister said, when businesses thrive, the economy thrives. That means cutting barriers to growth, not creating them, and fostering positive dialogue between government and businesses. The last thing anyone needs are half-baked plans thrust upon them, to the detriment of trading.”

Mr Gwynne said the Government was examining a wide range of measures to tackle childhood obesity, including “greater reformulation so that the food that we buy, the processed food, is healthier than it currently is”.

He said ministers were keen to work with the industry so that they changed the content of everyday foods, reducing the content of fat, sugar and salt, instead of being forced to by regulation.

“We don’t want to introduce regulation, we want to work with industry as far as we can,” the minister said, saying food manufacturers had so far proved “very receptive”.

“I think they recognise it’s the only game to play and if they don’t, regulation is coming,” he said.

A senior banker whose Jack Russell Terrier broke its leg on a therapy course for anxious dogs has been awarded a £10,000 payout.

The dog, named Sirius, broke one of its hind legs in October 2023 while on a £2,500 course of pet therapy which its owners hoped would ease its “anxiety and reactivity”.

Its owner, Yigit Onkan Sazak, a vice-president at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, claimed Sirius had fallen out of a van while in the care of Four Paws Walking and Training, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

Paul Ives, founder of the dog training business, claimed the dog was “exhibiting severe aggression and anxiety” and had tried to bite a trainer, causing it to “fall awkwardly and sustain an injury”.

Mr Sazak and Belma Sazak, his wife, have now been awarded £10,583 after they sued the company to recoup the vet bills of £7,200 and the course fee.

Mrs Sazak claimed that the dog had to be given “depression medication” because it was unable to run while recovering from the injury.

The Four Paws website says the company specialises in “bespoke dog training” and takes pride in tackling “socialisation struggles, toilet training, aggression and anxious episodes”.

Among the packages it offers are a two-week “customised board and train” programme, comprising “intensive training sessions” and an “immersive experience”.

Serious fracture

District Judge Edwin Omoregie told Central London County Court last week: “What Mr Sazak said in his claim form is that he sent his dog for some form of training with the defendants and that while the dog was in training he sustained injuries which included a spiral fracture.

“The fracture was quite serious and that necessitated Mr Sazak to have his dog treated for the injuries.

“As a result of those injuries, he sued the defendants… first for the cost of the vet’s bill to treat Sirius, and also for the training fees for the dog.”

In an online customer review of Four Paws, Mrs Sazak labelled their experience a “complete nightmare”, claiming Sirius broke its leg after Four Paws “took him in for training”.

“This entire ordeal has inflicted significant emotional stress and financial hardship on us,” she wrote. “At this point, we are striving to get our lives back on track and offer the best possible support to Sirius.

“This experience has been a complete nightmare.”

‘Heightened anxiety’

In another post, Mrs Sazak told of Sirius having to have a metal plate and nine screws inserted in its leg and said the dog would need “intensive post-surgery care” while “confined to immobility”.

“It breaks my heart to see him wrestle with heightened anxiety and even needing depression medication to cope with his nightmarish new environment,” she wrote.

In an online response to the review, Four Paws said it had informed Sirius’s owners promptly after the pet’s “unfortunate accident” and took it to a vet.

“I would like to point out that we have offered to cover the medical costs for the operation, X-rays, medication and follow up appointments, and are waiting on the results of the eight-week checkup to get a final account and then payment will be made,” the company’s response continued.

Four Paws did not attend the hearing. Judge Omoregie entered judgment for £10,583 for Mr Sazak.

But he noted that the company could still have the option of returning to court and apply to “set aside” his order, since no representative was in court to present their side of the dispute.

“This is maybe not the end of the matter,” he said.

Mr Ives told The Telegraph that he did not attend the court hearing because his mother had recently died, and said he had applied to have the court order set aside.

He said: “At the start of the program, a WhatsApp group was created for communication, and both Belma and her husband expressed their satisfaction with Sirius’s progress.

“However, on the day of the unfortunate incident, Sirius attempted to bite the trainer, causing the dog to fall awkwardly and sustain an injury. Sirius was immediately taken to the veterinarian, and the owners were kept informed throughout the process.”

He added: “As a company, we always prioritize the well-being of both the dogs and their owners, and we continue to stand by that commitment. Accidents happen, and we deeply regret what occurred. 

“We sincerely apologize to Sirius, Belma, and her husband.”

A Cayman Islands hedge fund handed Labour its largest-ever donation just days after the general election was called, it has emerged.

Quadrature Capital Limited, whose parent company is based in the Caribbean tax haven, donated £4 million to Sir Keir Starmer’s war chest.

Labour accepted the donation just before campaign rules kicked in requiring parties to make weekly declarations during the election period.

The disclosures come as No 10 is embroiled in a row over the scale of gifts handed to frontbenchers including the Prime Minister and Chancellor. Downing Street is also facing growing questions over its reliance on a handful of large donors and the potential influence they could wield.

Quadrature Capital is registered in central London and invests on behalf of Quadrature Group, whose funds are Cayman Islands-based.

In a statement, the company said it had chosen to support Labour because of the party’s “commitment to the green transition of the economy”.

“Having analysed commitments set out by each party, we donated £4 million to the Labour Party, in support of policies that will deliver climate action while also promoting social equity and economic resilience,” it said.

“This was a values-based donation, not a political donation, as Quadrature Capital Ltd remains non-partisan and apolitical.

“Going forward, our private giving will continue to be led by our values, and any further donations to political parties will depend on the parties’ commitments, track record, and alignment with our mission for sustainable and equitable growth.”

An investigation last year by The Guardian found that the company owned $170 million (£125 million) of shares in fossil fuels firms, including major polluters. It also reportedly holds millions of pounds worth of shares in US-based private healthcare companies and arms manufacturers.

The firm’s gift to Labour has only now come to light because it was accepted just before tighter transparency rules kicked in for the election period.

Normally donations are published every three months, but during campaigns parties must declare what they have received every week.

Rishi Sunak called the snap poll on May 22, with the Electoral Commission’s “pre-poll reporting” obligations kicking in a week later on May 30.

Electoral Commission records show that Labour accepted the £4 million from Quadrature on May 28, before the new rules had come into force. As a result, the donation was not made public until long after the election took place.

The timing of the declaration will raise questions over whether the party was seeking to avoid the controversy of it being published during the campaign.

Quadrature has said that while its funds are established in the Cayman Islands, it pays UK corporation tax on all of the profits from them.

In a statement on its website, the company says: “Quadrature does not seek to obtain a UK corporation tax advantage by establishing its funds in the Cayman Islands.

“Since the funds have historically been managed exclusively from the UK by Quadrature Capital Limited, all of the trading profits of the funds have been subject to UK corporation tax.”

Labour declined to comment.

A teenager who was stabbed to death in south-east London said: “I’m 15, don’t let me die” as he lay bleeding on the street, a witness has said.

Scotland Yard has launched a murder investigation after the boy, who has not been named, was found with a stab injury in Eglinton Road, Woolwich, on Sunday evening.

He died shortly after officers arrived at the scene, and his next of kin had been informed, the Metropolitan Police said.

A family member gave the victim’s Christian name as Daejaun.

Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lawry said the stabbing was a “stark and sobering” reminder of the dangers of possessing weapons such as zombie-style knives.

He made the comments ahead of a government ban, which comes into force on Tuesday, making it illegal to possess, sell or manufacture or transport zombie-style knives and machetes.

The weapons, usually over eight inches long with serrated blades and garish names and designs, have been linked to a surge in knife crime.

Tasha Collins, a 43-year-old mother of three who works at a nearby school, said she had tried to save the teenager as he lay bleeding near her flat.

Speaking by the police cordon, she said: “I was upstairs in my bedroom, I had my nightshirt on. I heard screaming from across the road, saying: ‘Someone’s been stabbed, someone’s been stabbed.’

“So I grabbed a sheet – I had no shoes or socks on or anything – and I just literally ran to where just near where the tent is, and there was someone laying face down on the floor.

“I turned him over, he had a gash in his head, and I thought ‘that’s not bleeding enough’. His leg moved and there was a massive pool of blood, so I just stemmed the flow of blood until the paramedics and that got here.

“I asked if I could go and shower because I was covered in his blood, and they [the police] said yes, so I went in and showered.

“I came back out and they called me over because I was the last one with him – he was going to me: ‘I’m 15, I’m 15, don’t let me die’ and I said to him: ‘You’re not going to die, mate.’

“I could see the blood coming out of his leg, and I knew it was his artery straight away. I put my sheet around it, put every ounce of pressure on him until the paramedics came.”

Ms Collins said the teenager had also suffered a gash on his head. She added that she had been praised by paramedics for her efforts and had known what to do through watching television shows about the NHS.

She said the victim was a young black teenager who was regularly seen in the local area with two other friends, one of whom was also at the scene in the aftermath of the attack. 

Ms Collins said: “The other day he was sitting on the wall over there, and he’s the most polite boy – he hasn’t got attitude. They were all dancing in the street the other day to a TikTok song.”

Asked whether she knew the victim well, she said: “No, I didn’t – but I always said hello and that, and he was always polite or moved out of the way when you were walking.”

Armed police raided a property in Eglinton Road shortly after the attack. On Monday afternoon, half a dozen police officers wearing gloves and facemasks were still combing the scene for evidence. No arrests have been made, and a crime scene is in place. 

A vigil was held on Monday in memory of the victim. Floral tributes were left at the scene by family friends and schoolchildren.

A crowd of around 50 schoolchildren gathered near the scene, some clutching flowers, others holding balloons. 

DCS Lawry, speaking at a press conference at Plumstead police station, said: “Once again, we have had to tell a child’s family that their loved one has been killed in an act of violence using a knife. Our thoughts are with them as they struggle to comprehend what has happened.

“The fact that a 15-year-old teenager, who had his whole life ahead of him, has been taken from his family in this way is a stark and sobering reminder of the danger of zombie-style knives. We are committed to doing everything in our power to taking these weapons off our streets.

“We know that this murder will also send shockwaves throughout the community and I understand the genuine concern this will create. We share those concerns.”

Knife crime hit record highs in eight police forces in the year to this March. These included the Metropolitan Police area, where knife crime was up from the previous record of 14,680 in 2020 to 14,961 in the year to March. West Midlands also saw a high of 5,266, up from 5,192 the previous year.

It comes as police data revealed that the level of zombie knife crime has doubled over the past five years. 

The number of crimes recorded mentioning machetes, swords or zombie knives increased from 7,159 in 2019 to 14,195 in 2023, according to freedom of information requests. The disclosure came in a survey of police forces by the BBC.

A spokesman for Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, said that “this heart-breaking violence has no place in our streets” and promised increased police patrols in the area.

The Duke of Sussex’s US visa application should remain private despite him admitting taking drugs in his memoir, a judge has ruled.

Harry’s reference to taking cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in his book Spare prompted a conservative Washington, DC think tank to question why he was allowed into the US in 2020.

In his ruling seen in court documents on Monday, US judge Carl Nichols said “the public does not have a strong interest in disclosure of the duke’s immigration records”.

His judgment added: “Like any foreign national, the duke has a legitimate privacy interest in his immigration status.

“And the duke’s public statements about his travel and drug use did not disclose, and therefore did not eliminate his interest in keeping private, specific information regarding his immigration status, applications, or other materials.”

The Heritage Foundation brought the lawsuit against the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) after a Freedom of Information Act request was rejected, with the think tank claiming it was of “immense public interest”.

Judge Nichols went on to say the public’s interest in disclosure of Harry’s immigration records is “outweighed by the duke’s privacy interest”.

He said: “Public disclosure of records about a single admission of a foreign national in the circumstances described above would provide the public, at best, limited information about the department’s general policy in admitting aliens.

“And the marginal public benefit of knowing that limited information is outweighed by the privacy interest the duke retains in his immigration status and records.”

Some of the judgment has been redacted – in particular facts the duke has not disclosed publicly in relation to his immigration status and records, and what was contained in his visa application.

In his controversial memoir, the duke said cocaine “didn’t do anything for me”, adding: “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”

The Heritage Foundation’s lawsuit argued that US law “generally renders such a person inadmissible for entry” to the country.

The think tank also said answers on the duke’s prior drug use in his visa application should have been disclosed as they could raise questions over the US government’s integrity.

In the DHS’s response to the legal claim, it said: “Much like health, financial, or employment information, a person’s immigration information is private personal information.”

The submissions made by lawyer John Bardo on behalf of DHS also said no “publicly available information, shows that Prince Harry was ever convicted for a drug-related offence”.

Mr Bardo added that any suggestion from the Heritage Foundation of wrongdoing on behalf of the US government was “purely speculative”.

On the face of it, Joe Biden’s effective ban on Chinese technology in new vehicles appeared to be a devastating blow to Beijing’s burgeoning electric car industry. 

In reality, it poses the greatest threat to Tesla, the US car giant owned by Elon Musk, Donald Trump’s cheerleader-in-chief.

On Monday, Gina Raimondo, the US commerce secretary, raised the terrifying scenario of a rogue state controlling America’s cars remotely. 

It may sound like science fiction but it’s a real and present danger.

“In an extreme situation, foreign adversaries could shut down or take control of all their vehicles operating in the United States at the same time,” said Ms Raimondo. 

Modern cars, connected to the internet, possess cameras, microphones, GPS tracking and other technologies which, said Ms Raimondo, are in the hands of “foreign adversaries… could pose a serious risk to both our national security and the privacy of US citizens”.

The chilling warning came with a proposed block by the US Department of Commerce on the import and sale of cars that rely on Chinese software and hardware to connect to the internet. 

Ban also impacts the Russians

The ban – which also affects Russian suppliers – will take effect on new models from 2027 with further restrictions from 2030. 

Microchips used to receive and transmit information such as location or traffic data or for use with self-driving technology will be prohibited.

The proposed ban could also include cars that use Chinese technology for keyless unlocking. 

It followed an investigation into cybersecurity risks posed by Chinese software.

On the face of it, any such ban would spell the death knell for China’s nascent electric vehicle (EV) industry in the US. 

But the reality is it may have little effect because China’s new generation of EVs – prevalent in the UK and Europe – are barely on US streets. 

Biden’s eye-watering tariffs on Chinese EVs

Tariffs, announced by President Biden in May, rose from 25 per cent to an eye-watering 100 per cent, doubling the cost of Chinese cars and pricing them out of the market. 

Canada has also imposed a 100 per cent tariff.

The new software ban is prohibiting vehicles that no one in their right mind would actually buy because of the cost.

But it is likely, experts warn, that China could retaliate. Bill Russo, founder and chief executive of Shanghai-based investment advisory firm Automobility, told Bloomberg that any ban would be “met with reciprocity” that will impact US business in China.

How that would manifest is unclear at this stage. 

But there is an obvious target: Tesla, the world’s second biggest manufacturer of EV cars, which last year sold more than 600,000 cars in China, its second largest market. 

BYD, a Chinese conglomerate, is the biggest EV maker on the globe but its cars are not even sold in the US.

Geoffrey Gertz, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, warned that China could now come after Tesla.

“US automakers don’t see a big impact [on this ban],” said Dr Gertz, “There are already a number of measures designed to keep China’s EV makers out… It’s hard to speculate what exactly any retaliation might be. I suspect there will be something but certainly Tesla has a foothold in China.”

Nobody is suggesting President Biden’s move was politically motivated although it can only help Kamala Harris’s cause. 

The swing state at the heart of the issue

Detroit in the swing state of Michigan is the centre of the US’s auto industry. 

The fact that Elon Musk, who has used his social media platform X to promote Trump and push his agenda, could be damaged by any Chinese blowback will likely not cause too many sleepless nights in the White House.

Professor Weisong Shi, who runs the Connected and Autonomous Research Laboratory (CAR Lab) at the University of Delaware, said: “Because of the tariffs, we haven’t seen too many China EVs here. 

“The latest sanction covers software for future connected and autonomous vehicles, and as a result, we are not going to see software made by China in US markets.

“This will be a big challenge for China. I don’t know whether China will retaliate, but they might. If you think about Tesla vehicles operating in China, the software they are running is being made by Tesla. 

“That is potentially somewhere for China to go.”

Musk, normally not shy in his pronouncements on X, hasn’t commented on the proposed ban. 

Tesla also did not respond to a request for comment.

The wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the Mexican drug lord, has appeared on the catwalk at Milan Fashion Week a year after being released from prison.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, 35, a former model who married El Chapo when she was a teenager, appeared in a regal wedding dress as part of what the designer called her “rebirth”.

Ms Coronel was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty to charges related to helping her husband’s Sinaloa cartel, including taking part in his escape from custody in 2015.

Prosecutors determined she “worked closely with the command and control structure” of the cartel.

Under her plea deal, she agreed to hand over about $1.5 million in illicit funds from the cartel. Her sentence was later reduced and she was freed from jail in September last year.

El Chapo, 67, whose criminal empire was known for its brutality and murderous rampages, continues to serve a life sentence – without the possibility of parole – in a supermax prison in Colorado.

Ms Coronel’s father, Inés Coronel, was also a senior member of the Sinaloa cartel and is serving a 10-year sentence in Mexico for drug smuggling.

However, on Sunday, Ms Coronel, who has both Mexican and US citizenship, dispatched with her “past marked with controversy” in a bid to “rewrite her future”, according to LA-based designer April Black Diamond, who made the cartel wife the star of her spring/summer 2024 collection.

Her surprise return to the modelling world took place in Palazzo Serbelloni, a neoclassical palace in Milan, where Napoleon once lived.

Ms Coronel wore a tiara and a heavy white gown adorned with jewels.

“As a designer, I believe everyone deserves a second chance, and fashion is the perfect platform to highlight transformation, strength, and resilience,” Ms Diamond wrote on Instagram last week.

The designer, who dresses the Hollywood elite and specialises in lavish party dresses, added that her work celebrated “resilience, rebirth, and the beauty of transformation on this global stage”.

Mariel Colón Miró, a model and lawyer who was part of El Chapo’s defence team in the US, also joined Ms Coronel on the catwalk at Sunday’s event.

‘Right to fulfil our dreams’

“We all have the right to fulfil our dreams and to be reborn like the bird and start over,” she wrote on social media.

One woman, who did not want to be named but who represents mothers whose family members have been killed in cartel violence, was relaxed about Ms Coronel’s catwalk appearance.

She told the Telegraph: “She does have a right to her own working life, regardless of what her husband has done, especially as he is in prison.”

Ms Coronel became a beauty queen at age 17, winning her first pageant in Canelas, Mexico, in 2007. She met her future husband the same year.

In an interview, she told the LA Times: “He flirtatiously smiled at me. After a while a person told me, ‘The man asks if you want to dance with him’. And I said, ‘OK’.”

After a whirlwind romance, she became El Chapo’s third wife at the age of 18, while he was 50.

They share twin daughters, Emaly and Maria Joaquina, born in 2011, who are believed to be the youngest of 19 children the cartel boss has fathered.

The suspect in an assassination attempt on Donald Trump wrote a note offering an unidentified person $150,000 to “finish the job”, prosecutors said.

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, appeared in court on Monday morning charged with firearms offences following his suspected assassination attempt of the former president.

Trump was the target of a second suspected assassination attempt by a gunman armed with an AK-47 rifle while golfing on Sunday 15 September.

According to court filings, Mr Routh wrote a note months earlier saying that he intended to kill the former president.

The note, addressed “Dear World,” read: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.”

It was placed in a box, which also contained ammunition, a metal pipe and other items, that was dropped at the home of an unidentified person who contacted law enforcement officials after Mr Routh was arrested. The box was not opened by the person until after Mr Routh was taken into custody.

The former president was rushed to safety after a Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel poking out of a fence just 300 yards away from him at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The agent opened fire toward Mr Routh, 58, who fled the scene in a black Nissan and was later detained on a motorway after being identified by a witness.

Prosecutors said that when Routh was arrested, his car contained a handwritten list of dates in August, September and October of places where Trump had appeared or was expected to appear, including his home and golf course.

The suspect’s phone pinged towers near Trump’s golf course and his Florida home repeatedly from August 18 to September 15, the Justice Department said, arguing that Mr Routh should remain in custody.‌

An attorney for Mr Routh did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday morning.

The revelations will add to mounting pressure on the Secret Service, who have come under criticism in recent days for failing to adequately protect the former president.

Previously reported court documents show that Mr Routh lay in wait on the perimeter of Trump’s golf course for almost 12 hours before he was spotted by Secret Service Agents.

Last Monday, he was charged with possession of a firearm by a prohibited person – a convicted felon – and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

The first charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, while the latter offence carries up to five years. Both can result in a $250,000 fine.

Mr Routh could face further, more serious charges as the investigation continues and Justice Department prosecutors seek an indictment from a grand jury.

It was the second apparent assassination attempt targeting Trump in three months. On July 13, a bullet grazed the former president’s ear when gunman Thomas Crooks fired a volley of bullets while he spoke at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Sir Ben Wallace knew that allegations about the killings of Afghan civilians by SAS forces were “broadly accurate” four years before ordering a public inquiry, a hearing was told.

The Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan is investigating claims that up to 80 civilians were killed in suspicious circumstances by members of the special forces on night raids between 2010 and 2013.

The hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday was told that Sir Ben received a letter in October 2019 warning him that BBC Panorama was set to broadcast the allegations.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) letter described the allegations as “broadly accurate”, it was heard. The former defence secretary ordered the inquiry to examine the claims four years later.

The inquiry is also exploring whether a special forces unit, known to the probe as UKSF1, had a policy of executing men of “fighting age” who posed no threat in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.

Afghan families have accused the SAS of conducting a “campaign of murder” against civilians, while senior officers and personnel at the MoD “sought to prevent adequate investigation”.

Appearing before the court, Sir Ben was questioned by Oliver Glasgow KC, counsel to the inquiry, about the claims.

Mr Glasgow asked: “Is that the sort of submission that one needs to pay attention to, Sir Ben?”

The former defence secretary replied: “I did pay attention to it – we are sitting in a public inquiry to get to the bottom of it.”

Asked whether he was worried that the allegations had been judged to be “broadly accurate”, Sir Ben said: “I’ve said, I’ve never strayed from my belief that there may be more evidence out there.”

However, asked if “alarm bells” rang in his mind when he was told allegations being made by Panorama were “broadly accurate”, Sir Ben insisted: “Some of the allegations were spurious.”

However, he added: “It would always be wrong to say every single thing was vexatious and spurious.”

Meanwhile, Sir Ben was forced to reject accusations by Johnny Mercer, the former veterans’ minister, that he “lacked curiosity” when responding to allegations of a cover-up.

Mr Mercer wrote to Sir Ben in August 2020 shortly after emails surfaced in The Sunday Times which showed that senior special forces officers had expressed serious concerns about the killings of 33 people in 11 night raids in 2011.

The former veterans’ minister previously told the inquiry he was “angry” with Sir Ben, as well as the director of the special forces and the chief of the general staff, because they had “not done their job that was incumbent upon them with their rank and privileges in those organisations”.

Hitting back at Mr Mercer’s claims, Sir Ben said it was “highly inaccurate” that he lacked curiosity, and added: “I was absolutely inquisitive.”

Sir Ben said: “Not only did I seek to dig deeper, I also even sought to dig internationally whether or not the assurances I’d been given were truthful.

“Secondly, I established this inquiry … so I was absolutely inquisitive.

“I held the department to account if I felt that they were not producing what we had asked for.

“But I also had to reiterate that we had to act on the evidence before us and that I also have a duty to the men and women of the armed forces to make sure that their reputation is not dragged through the mud or indeed libelled or besmirched without evidence.”

Two Royal Military Police investigations, codenamed Operation Northmoor and Operation Cestro, are also being scrutinised by the inquiry.

No charges were brought under Operation Northmoor – a £10 million investigation that was set up in 2014 to examine allegations of executions by special forces, including those of children.

Operation Cestro saw three soldiers referred to the Service Prosecuting Authority, but none of them were prosecuted.

The inquiry continues.

Kemi Badenoch has accused Labour of being “hypocrites” for accepting donor gifts while criticising Boris Johnson for taking money to help redecorate Number 10.

The Tory leadership frontrunner defended receiving freebies herself, saying it can allow a hard-pressed politician to spend time with her children.

But she insisted: “You can’t buy me with a glass of Prosecco and smoked salmon.”

Ms Badenoch’s comments come in the wake of Labour’s sleaze row, with ministers under fire for accepting free clothes, holidays and concert tickets.

She told Times Radio: “It’s about hypocrisy. They are being criticised because they are being hypocrites.

“They criticised Boris Johnson for putting wallpaper in a public property.”

This is a reference to claims in 2021 that an undisclosed loan was used to fund new wallpaper in Mr Johnson’s Downing Street flat. Following the furore, Mr Johnson agreed to pay for the refurbishment himself.

Angela Rayner tries to deflect criticism

Ms Badenoch made reference to the 40th birthday party of Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary,which was paid for by a donor.

“Once in a while [donors] would ask me to come to something, and my children haven’t seen me for a week and they would like to go,” she said.

“You declare it and you explain what it is you’re doing. Nobody paid for my birthday parties or anything like that.”

Ms Badenoch has taken freebies for an Ed Sheeran concert and a rugby game at Twickenham.

She said: “I think what Labour are failing to do is point out why politicians do this.

“What many people don’t see is the school sports days that I miss or my children crying as they were this weekend because I had to go to hustings, a lot of the constituency functions which you do which mean that you actually miss out on time with your family.

“So if someone says, well, you can do some work and we can have a chat and you get time to spend with your family at something that they probably wouldn’t be able to do normally, you say yes to it.”

On taking her husband to the rugby, she said: “He likes rugby. My husband spends a lot of money subsidising my life as a politician. He has to deal with the fallout.

“So here’s something nice that he can do with me. It doesn’t mean that those people are buying me. You can’t buy me with a glass of Prosecco and smoked salmon.”

Ms Badenoch hit out at Tory leadership rival Robert Jenrick for a poor record as immigration minister, saying things “didn’t go well” under his time in office.

She said that, unlike Mr Jenrick, she was able to campaign on her record in office as business secretary and equalities minister.

She added that while Britain will “probably” need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights in order to tackle the small boats issue, that would not be the major factor in bringing down immigration.

There are now four candidates left in the race to run the Conservative Party: Ms Badenoch, Mr Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat.

Each will make speeches at next week’s Tory conference, after which MPs will hold two votes to whittle the number down to the final two.

Asked by Times Radio whether she thought Mr Jenrick had done a good job as immigration minister, Ms Badenoch said: “I think it’s an interesting argument to say that things didn’t go well when I was doing the job, but give me another chance.

“I’m standing on my record. I got things done and I can do more. And I think when it comes to immigration, we need to start from first principles.

“This policy of leaving the ECHR is something that we probably will have to do, but it’s not where to start from. We need to start from first principles. What kind of country do we want to be? Why have we been so bad at managing the borders despite wanting to do so?

“More promises are not the answer. We need a plan and we need people who show that they understand the system and know how to fix it.”

Ms Badenoch also ruled out doing an electoral deal with Nigel Farage to help the Tories at the next poll.

She said: “I’m a Conservative. I love competition. It’s another thing that we believe in from first principles.

“But that means doing better than the other lot. We created a vacuum which Reform has filled by not being authentically Conservative or visibly Conservative, by not delivering on our promises. So we have a job to do in order to remove that vacuum.

“I don’t think that there is space for two centre-Right parties but I don’t think the solution is attacking Reform voters. We need to win them back.

“Many of the Reform voters in my constituency were former Conservatives. We’ve got to do that but doing a deal with Farage for me is not on the cards.”

Sir Keir Starmer faces a fresh backlash over his relationship with Lord Alli because of the role played by one of the donor’s former staff members in choosing prospective Labour MPs.

Matthew Faulding, who was in charge of candidate selection for this year’s general election, worked in Lord Alli’s office on secondment from his firm BM Creative Management in the months before the poll.

He was blamed by critics of Sir Keir for “parachuting” favoured candidates into constituencies, imposing them on local Labour associations. He is now secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party, “keeping them all in check” according to one former member of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), who described the arrangement as “rotten to the core”.

It came as Lucy Powell, the Leader of the Commons, said Labour would not change the rules around MPs accepting so-called freebies.

The Labour Party conference has been overshadowed by a row over Lord Alli’s donations to Sir Keir Starmer to buy clothes and spectacles. Lord Alli was given a Downing Street security pass in what has been dubbed the “passes for glasses” controversy.

He is attending the conference but has kept a low profile, shunning the main conference hall and fringe events. On Monday afternoon he was spotted leaving the conference secure zone, when he walked past Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, who did not acknowledge him.

When a reporter for Sky News asked him about the controversy, he said: “Please don’t – this is not very nice.”

Some Labour members are angry that Lord Alli’s influence appears to have extended to the selection of Labour candidates, many of whom are now MPs.

Mark Seddon, a former Labour candidate who served on the NEC and is now director of the Centre for United Nations Studies at the University of Buckingham, said on X: “The same Matt Faulding who fixed the selections is now Secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party, keeping them all in check. Rotten to the core.”

The journalist Michael Crick reported before the election that candidates parachuted into constituencies included Josh Simons, the former director of the Starmerite think tank Labour Together, who is now MP for Makerfield; Calvin Bailey, MP for Leyton and Wanstead; James Asser, former chair of the NEC and now MP for West Ham and Beckton; and Luke Akehurst, MP for North Durham, who was seen as Sir Keir’s enforcer on the NEC.

Sir Keir had previously promised not to impose candidates on local party associations, but during the general election he was accused of breaking that promise and “riding roughshod” over the wishes of members.

‘Starmtroopers’

Those on the Left of the party accused him of flooding the country with “Starmtroopers” to purge Labour of anyone deemed to have diverged from the party line.

Some members resigned in disgust after having candidates imposed from above rather than being able to interview and select their own candidates.

Mr Faulding, 35, was a deputy director of Progress, the Left-wing think tank, and was also a director of the Lowick Group, a strategic communications consultancy, before he worked for Lord Alli.

‘We want to be transparent’

At a Labour conference fringe event on standards in public life, Ms Powell said she would “very strongly refute” the suggestion that the Government was “in hock” to “vested interests”.

“Campaigning is an expensive business and you do have to raise money. That’s why there are quite tight rules around that and people have fallen foul of it. So perhaps that’s just sort of how things are at the moment and [we have] no plans to change that.”

She acknowledged there were still “many” issues around “culture and behaviour” in politics.

But she said Labour politicians held themselves to higher standards than the Tories, which was “why we are transparent, and we want to be even more transparent around some of these things as well”.

Defending her own record on taking handouts, she said the “vast majority of the so-called freebies” she had accepted were “attending official events” in her former role as the shadow culture secretary.

Lord Alli and the Labour Party were both contacted for comment.

The Work and Pensions Secretary has said young people benefit from being in the office, deepening a growing split in the Cabinet over working from home.

Liz Kendall said that during the pandemic her department had “stressed” young employees who found remote working from shared rental properties “a nightmare”.

She said that there was no “one size fits all” answer to home working, but highlighted the social benefits of the office for the young.

Her stance echoes Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, who has said that she wants civil servants in the office.

However, their comments are at odds with Jonathan Reynolds, the Business Secretary, who said that being able to work from home contributes to “productivity” and “resilience”, and makes a “significant contribution” to tackling regional inequality.

‘Bickering’ ministers

The Tories claimed that the Cabinet was not “on the same page” over home working.

Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow business secretary, said: “This just goes to show that if the Labour front bench can’t figure out what they want between themselves, businesses have no chance of navigating Labour’s byzantine regulations.

“Clearly the Business Secretary has been spending too much time telling some of the most successful businesses in the world how to operate, and forgotten to make sure the rest of the Government is on the same page as him.”

He added: “Ministers should spend less time bickering with themselves and more time engaging with businesses.”

Speaking at the Labour Party conference, Ms Kendall told a fringe event: “I do know from my own experience that many young people wanted to be in [the office], because it was a nightmare working from home and they were stressed, and it was great teamwork. But that was just in my circumstances.”

The Work and Pensions Secretary highlighted the challenges of working from home for young graduates who are often living in shared rental accommodation.

‘True flexibility’

She told delegates at a fringe event hosted by the Institute for Public Policy and Research: “Let me just say, from my perspective, during Covid, when I had a couple of young people start work for me, and they were desperate to get into their office.

“They didn’t want to try to work from home with two or three people in shared accommodation. I mean, this is not just London. They didn’t know people.”

She added: “Different things work for different people, and I think that that’s what true flexibility means.

“And as people of a certain generation, someone called me a veteran MP the other day…. How I worked is completely different from what people my age when I started work expect. So we have to change.

“So I’m not going to say either, ‘Everybody in the office’. Neither am I going to say, ‘Oh, yeah, let’s all work from home’. [It’s] what works for your company, but also for your individuals.”

Earlier on Monday, Ms Reeves said that there was “value” in working from the office.

She told LBC: “I lead by example. That first weekend when I was appointed Chancellor, I arrived at the Treasury at about three or four on a Friday afternoon.

‘Bringing people together’ 

“We work well into the evening, not just me and my political team, but civil servants. And we came in on a Saturday and a Sunday.

“We did that in the office, not on Zoom, because I do think there is real value in bringing people together and sharing ideas. You’re challenging each other.”

She said that there was “certainly a case for flexible working” to allow parents to take care of children or elderly relatives, but added: “I do think that productivity gains are more likely to happen when you have that sharing of ideas and bringing people together, and I lead by example on that in my department, and I think that it’s, it’s reaping dividends.”

Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, was asked about his stance on Monday, telling Bloomberg Radio: “Well, I work for the Chancellor, and so I’ll be going to the office.”

Mr Reynolds, who is heading up the New Deal for Working People alongside Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, praised working from home in an interview with The Times last week.

He told the newspaper: “We’ve had flexible working laws for quite some time in the UK. I think where people reach agreement with their employer … it does contribute to productivity, it does contribute to their resilience, their ability to stay working for an employer.”

While he said that there “are times when it is absolutely necessary” to have the workforce in the office, he added: “The UK has very significant regional inequality. It could play a significant contribution to tackling that.”

Mr Reynolds criticised Amazon’s move to order staff back into the office five days a week, saying that “flexibility, when agreed between employer and employee, is good for productivity, is good for staff resilience”.

Also at the fringe event, Ms Kendall expressed concern about the growing mental health crisis among young people, and criticised the former government’s approach and rhetoric on the issue.

“I think it’s really important that we don’t just say, ‘Well, buck your ideas up’. You know, as the last government did. ‘Some day you’ve got to toughen up’.

“Is anybody with a young person who’s anxious, trying to even get them to school, just telling them to toughen up? Well, how successful is that?”

A young mother who took her baby to a riot at a hotel used by asylum seekers has been spared jail, with a judge asking her: “What on Earth were you thinking?”

Nevey Smith, 21, brought her 20-month-old son in a pram to the disorder outside the Holiday Inn in Newton Heath, Manchester, and threw water at police officers trying to contain the violence.

A large mob descended on the hotel and hurled bottles, bricks and eggs at the building as riots broke out across the country in the wake of the Southport killings on July 29.

Daniel Calder, Smith’s lawyer, told the court that she did not know what an asylum seeker was.

Judge Patrick Field KC, sentencing Smith at Manchester crown court on Monday,  told her: “You chose to join, notwithstanding that you had your 20-month-old child in a pushchair. 

“What on Earth were you thinking? I doubt you had his safety in mind.”

The judge also told Smith, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, that she had a “lot to learn” and “quite a lot of growing up to do”, labelling her “misguided, naive and immature”.

He added that her role was “minimal and peripheral” as she had not been involved in throwing bricks or encouraging others to do so.

Mr Calder told the court that Smith had not set out to attend the protest on the day, and had been passing the riot when she “foolishly” got involved. He added that she had not expressed discriminatory views.

Smith was given a community order and made to attend reviews at a women’s problem-solving court and carry out 100 hours of unpaid work.

Her mother, Vanessa Smith, 42, was also at the protest and admitted violent disorder. She will be sentenced on Thursday.

A 40-year-old woman and an eight-year-old girl have been found dead at a property in Salford.

Greater Manchester Police were called to South Radford Street shortly after 10:30am on Monday following reports of a concern for welfare at the property.

Officers attended, with assistance from North West Ambulance Service and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, and the bodies of a woman and girl were found at the property.

All known next of kin have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers.

Det Supt Simon Moyles said: “A woman and young girl were both tragically found dead and we are working hard as a team to establish what happened here this morning. 

“Whilst we are not actively looking for anyone else in relation to this investigation, I understand the news of their deaths and the large police and emergency services presence at the address will most likely cause some concern to residents and those further afield in Greater Manchester.

“I want to reassure them that we believe this to be an isolated incident with no wider threat in the community.

“A cordon has been put in place and there is a scene contained on South Radford Street. We continue to thank the public for their patience as we respond in the area.

“We have placed a number of highly visible officers to patrol in and around the area should any residents wish to come and talk to us or pass on any information they may have about this tragic incident.”

A Salford City Council spokesman said: “We are aware of the terribly sad news this morning and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of those who have tragically lost their lives. 

“We’re working closely with GMP and assisting them with their ongoing investigation and our teams will be supporting both local residents and council staff who have no doubt been greatly affected by the events today.”

A baby king penguin resembling a huge ball of brown fluff and which eats 25 fish a day is not overweight, according to its keepers.

Pesto is only nine months old but weighs a hefty 22kg (49lbs), while its doting parents, Tango and Hudson, are just 11kg (24lbs) each.

The chubby chick is a star attraction at Sea Life Aquarium in Melbourne and has become an unlikely social media phenomenon, thanks to its voracious appetite.

But Pesto’s bulk has been attributed to good genes – its father is the biggest penguin in the aquarium – and staff are not concerned by the bird’s girth.

“He’s just a big baby. He’s eating quite a bit but he’s not at all considered to be an unhealthy weight,” said Jacinta Early, the aquarium’s education supervisor.

Videos of Pesto have been viewed by nearly two billion people worldwide through social media channels.

Capable of eating its own body weight in fish each week, Pesto is the heaviest penguin chick the aquarium has ever had. It enjoys a varied diet of rainbow trout, salmon and sand whiting.

Experts say the bird is not obese and will start to slim down as it becomes an adult. Its weight is likely to drop to around 15kg (33lbs) and its fluffy brown feathers will be replaced with sleek black and white plumage.

“He’s going to start losing that really adorable baby fluff. It might take him one to two months to really get rid of it,” added Ms Early. “Then he’ll be nice and sleek and streamlined.”

Born in January, Pesto was the only king penguin chick to hatch at the aquarium this year and the first since 2022. Since becoming a celebrity, it has boosted the number of visitors to the aquarium.

‘He’s gorgeous’

“I’ve seen heaps of videos, and there’s like 100,000 likes on them,” said Shaina Pyke, who came to see the chick after watching a clip on TikTok. “It’s very viral.”

Her friend Amanda Robar told the Melbourne Age newspaper: “The sheer size of this baby penguin blew me away, it exceeded my expectations. He’s gorgeous.”

Olivia Wilson, a spokeswoman for Sea Life, said: “Guests are arriving at admissions and double-checking Pesto is definitely on site. 

“We have had messages on social media from people who are booking flights to Melbourne and want to know that Pesto will be here. People seem to relate to this chunky guy.”

King penguins are the second-largest species, after emperor penguins, and breed on islands in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic, including South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.

They are preyed on by leopard seals and killer whales. At one time harvested by humans for their eggs, feathers and oil, the population of king penguins is now increasing.

City and town centre areas are to become “zero tolerance” zones for anti-social behaviour under plans by Labour to tackle street crime.

Police will be given powers to target persistent offenders with respect orders – a new revamped form of Asbos – that allow them to ban offenders from city centres if they have been plaguing the public with harassment, intimidating behaviour, drug use, littering and street drinking.

If they try to return to the city or town centres, they will face criminal sanctions ranging from fines to community payback punishments for breaching the order.

Police hit squads are to be ordered to target knifepoint robbery hotspots, particularly when the new iPhones are released amid growing concern at a 40 per cent rise in snatch thefts and knife-enabled crime.

Police will also get new powers to crack down on nuisance quad bikes terrorising rural communities. Officers will be able to scrap noisy dirt and quad bikes within 48 hours without giving a warning, instead of having to keep them impounded for two weeks.

‘No one comes and nothing is done’

In a speech to the Labour conference in Liverpool, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, will on Tuesday say that a Labour Government will rebuild respect for the rule of law, claiming the Tories left too many people feeling that “no one comes and nothing is done” when crimes were committed.

“You don’t get social justice if you don’t have justice. Respect is the very foundation of our democracy. Those Labour values are at the heart of all we do. And they are at the heart of our mission for safer streets too,” she will say.

“Where rising street crime has driven people from our high streets, corroding the fabric of our communities, this Labour Government will bring in new powers on antisocial behaviour, shoplifting and off-road bikes and put neighbourhood police back on the beat.”

Ms Cooper reaffirmed the party’s manifesto pledge to recruit 13,000 extra police and police community support officers to the 43 forces in England and Wales. They will be paid for by mandating closer collaboration between the constabularies to make efficiency savings in areas like procurement.

Asbos, introduced by Tony Blair’s government in 1998, were ditched by David Cameron’s coalition government in 2014 for being too complex, bureaucratic and criminalising young people. They were replaced by civil injunctions which have been used infrequently by police as officers cannot arrest those who breach them.

The new respect orders would only be used against adults and targeted at persistent offenders. Although a civil order, breaching them would be a crime enabling police to arrest offenders. Breaching an Asbo carried a maximum five years in jail but Labour plans to consult on the custodial terms for respect orders.

Ms Cooper also announced a new knife enabled robbery taskforce, to combat a 13 per cent increase in the crime in the last year alone. Knife enabled robbery now makes up 42 per cent of all police-recorded knife crime.

The taskforce will bring together ministers, police chiefs and community safety partners, to set out best practice on policing geographic hotspots, blocking the onward pipeline of stolen goods and disrupting supply chains to disincentivise theft.

The Home Office will work with the National Police Chief Council on week-long operations when violent robberies are likely to peak, including around the release of new iPhones. Labour has committed to halving knife crime within a decade.

Mobile phone companies will be told to introduce a “kill switch” that allows smartphones to be disabled as soon as they are stolen in an effort to address the soaring rate of muggings.

Ms Cooper will ask companies to present solutions at talks she will host dedicated to tackling the crime later this year. She wants companies to develop a safety feature that would prevent stolen phones being re-registered, rendering devices useless and potentially reducing the demand for stolen phones.

Sir Keir Starmer will insist on Tuesday that there is “light at the end of this tunnel” in an attempt to convince the country and his party to put up with “short-term” financial pain.

In his first speech to the Labour conference since becoming Prime Minister, Sir Keir will warn he cannot lower taxes until he fills the spending “black hole” left by the Conservatives.

Striking a more positive note, he will look beyond a tough Budget next month and argue that Labour can bring back “joy” in people’s lives over the next five years.

Higher economic growth, lower NHS waiting lists, stronger borders and a cleaner energy system will be singled out as the benefits if the public finances are stabilised.

The approach is a deliberate attempt to counter criticism – including from around his Cabinet table – that the Prime Minister has been too gloomy in his rhetoric since taking office.

‘This will be tough in the short term’

It is also an acknowledgement of the backlash to removing the winter fuel payments from 10 million pensioners, a policy move that triggered boos at the conference in Liverpool on Monday.

Sir Keir will say in his speech: “The politics of national renewal are collective. They involve a shared struggle. A project that says, to everyone, this will be tough in the short term, but in the long term – it’s the right thing to do for our country. And we all benefit from that.”

He will add: “The truth is that if we take tough long-term decisions now, if we stick to the driving purpose behind everything we do: higher economic growth – so living standards rise in every community; our NHS facing the future – waiting lists at your hospital down; safer streets in your community; stronger borders; more opportunities for your children; clean British energy powering your home; making our country more secure… then that light at the end of this tunnel, that Britain that belongs to you, we get there much more quickly.”

The speech will aim to justify the difficult financial decisions Labour is expected to take in the Budget on Oct 30, echoing warnings from Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, that tax rises and spending cuts are being considered for next month.

‘Political black hole’

Sir Keir will say: “It will be hard. That’s not rhetoric, it’s reality. It’s not just that financial black hole, the £22 billion of unfunded spending commitments, concealed from our country by the Tories, it’s not just the societal black hole – our decimated public services leaving communities held together by little more than goodwill – it’s also the political black hole.

“Just because we all want low taxes and good public services, does not mean that the iron law of properly funding policies can be ignored. We have seen the damage that does, and I will not let that happen again. I will not let Tory economic recklessness hold back the working people of this country.”

The explicit warning that “low taxes” cannot be delivered until the public finances are secured is another indication that increases can be expected next month.

Labour has ruled out raising income tax rates, National Insurance, VAT or the Corporation Tax rate, but Capital Gains Tax and inheritance tax increases remain possible.

Ms Reeves on Monday indicated that the tax burden, already at a 70-year high, will inevitably be pushed higher next month when the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) publishes forecasts. The OBR forecast will include tax increases, such as applying VAT to private school fees, already put in place.

There has been criticism that the focus on the Tory inheritance has disillusioned voters, with Sir Keir’s personal approval ratings plummeting since the July election victory.

‘Too much gloom, not enough light’

One Cabinet minister told The Telegraph this week: “There has been too much gloom and not enough light.”

A trade union revolt over the winter fuel payments cut has led to a vote on the policy at conference being delayed to Wednesday, when most senior Labour figures will have left, but Sir Keir’s team still think they will lose.

The vote is not binding on policy but a rebuke from conference over one of the first financial decisions taken by Labour in office would be an embarrassment for No 10.

Sir Keir will say: “I know this country is exhausted by and with politics. I know that the cost-of-living crisis drew a veil over the joy and wonder in our lives and that people want respite and relief, and may even have voted Labour for that reason.”

There will also be repeated references to leading a “government of service”, with Sir Keir promising at one point to “put respect and service deep in the bones of our institutions”.

It remains to be seen if Sir Keir will make reference to the row over donations of clothing, glasses and apartments from the Labour peer Lord Alli – who was photographed at the conference on Monday – in the speech.

The Duke of Sussex’s US visa application should remain private despite him admitting taking drugs in his memoir, a judge has ruled.

Harry’s reference to taking cocaine, marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in his book Spare prompted a conservative Washington, DC think tank to question why he was allowed into the US in 2020.

In his ruling seen in court documents on Monday, US judge Carl Nichols said “the public does not have a strong interest in disclosure of the duke’s immigration records”.

His judgment added: “Like any foreign national, the duke has a legitimate privacy interest in his immigration status.

“And the duke’s public statements about his travel and drug use did not disclose, and therefore did not eliminate his interest in keeping private, specific information regarding his immigration status, applications, or other materials.”

The Heritage Foundation brought the lawsuit against the Department for Homeland Security (DHS) after a Freedom of Information Act request was rejected, with the think tank claiming it was of “immense public interest”.

Judge Nichols went on to say the public’s interest in disclosure of Harry’s immigration records is “outweighed by the duke’s privacy interest”.

He said: “Public disclosure of records about a single admission of a foreign national in the circumstances described above would provide the public, at best, limited information about the department’s general policy in admitting aliens.

“And the marginal public benefit of knowing that limited information is outweighed by the privacy interest the duke retains in his immigration status and records.”

Some of the judgment has been redacted – in particular facts the duke has not disclosed publicly in relation to his immigration status and records, and what was contained in his visa application.

In his controversial memoir, the duke said cocaine “didn’t do anything for me”, adding: “Marijuana is different, that actually really did help me.”

The Heritage Foundation’s lawsuit argued that US law “generally renders such a person inadmissible for entry” to the country.

The think tank also said answers on the duke’s prior drug use in his visa application should have been disclosed as they could raise questions over the US government’s integrity.

In the DHS’s response to the legal claim, it said: “Much like health, financial, or employment information, a person’s immigration information is private personal information.”

The submissions made by lawyer John Bardo on behalf of DHS also said no “publicly available information, shows that Prince Harry was ever convicted for a drug-related offence”.

Mr Bardo added that any suggestion from the Heritage Foundation of wrongdoing on behalf of the US government was “purely speculative”.

God Save the King will be played at all guard of honour ceremonies for visiting military dignitaries after the Defence Secretary intervened, The Telegraph can reveal.

The current protocol is that when an overseas defence minister comes on an official visit to Britain, that country’s national anthem is played at the greeting event, but not the UK anthem.

John Healey was taken aback after discovering the approach, after being sent by Sir Keir Starmer to take charge of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in July after years shadowing the brief.

He has now ordered a change, meaning that the military band at the guard of honour – often held on Westminster’s Horse Guards Parade – will play both nations’ anthems.

The new position will be on display in the coming week when the most senior defence ministers from America and Australia visit London to discuss the Aukus pact.

Under the trilateral security partnership, the US and UK are helping the Australians acquire nuclear-powered submarines as part of a long-term strategy to counter the threat of China.

Mr Healey told The Telegraph: “Our military provides world-class guards of honour to visiting dignitaries and defence ministers. It is hugely important that we honour our visitors with their anthem.

“But seeing servicemen and women across other nations proudly performing their own anthem, it was a no-brainer to me that we should do the same.

“It’s important to me that we demonstrate our British patriotism by playing our own anthem loudly and proudly, in celebration of our history and heritage.

“It’s an honour to do this for the first time with some of our closest allies, the US and Australia, as we meet to discuss our Aukus partnership.”

Embracing patriotism

The move comes as part of a longer-term push by Sir Keir’s team to get Labour to embrace patriotism and the flag after the years of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

This led to eye-rolling from figures on the Left as then shadow cabinet ministers often placed the UK flag in the background for TV interviews before the general election.

Mr Healey has been a key part of Labour’s drive in recent years to reassure the public that the party can be trusted with national security and the defence of the country.

After Mr Corbyn’s lukewarm support of Trident nuclear weapons, Sir Keir’s time heading up Labour has seen the party unequivocally pledge to renew the nuclear deterrent.

This coming week, the MoD’s new approach on national anthems will be on display when Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, and Richard Marles, the Australian deputy prime minister and defence minister, visit for talks about Aukus.

The guard of honour will be delivered by Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards and the Band of the Welsh Guards, with the American, Australian and British anthems all played.

Defence spending promises

The new Labour Government is facing an emerging tussle over defence spending, with industry figures and Conservative politicians pushing for clarity.

The Prime Minister has an ambition to spend 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence, a significant rise from about 2.3 per cent currently.

The Conservatives had a promise to hit that target by 2030, but Labour has abandoned the time frame and is yet to propose one of its own.

A strategic defence review has been launched that will attempt to take the long view at the threats facing Britain in the decades ahead and the priority areas for spending.

A decision will be announced in the Budget on October 30 about the MoD’s funding for the next financial year.

The SNP has been accused of abusing taxpayers’ money after supposedly impartial civil servants drew up a defence of Michael Matheson.

Officials provided a brief for John Swinney, highlighting the former health secretary’s achievements as a politician after he had quit government in a scandal over an £11,000 iPad data bill he ran up while on holiday in Morocco.

Mr Matheson, the then health secretary, had initially claimed the cash back from taxpayers, saying he had only used the device for parliamentary work.

After questions were raised about his story, he claimed he discovered later that his teenage sons had used it to stream football matches.

Mr Swinney continued to defend his “friend” even after a Holyrood committee recommended he face a record punishment of losing 54 days of salary and face a 27-day suspension.

It has now emerged that on May 23, the same day that the recommended punishment was made public, civil servants prepared a flattering brief about Mr Matheson to help Mr Swinney face down questions about the scandal at Holyrood.

They included that he had campaigned as a backbencher on fire sprinkler regulations and agreed a record pay rise for junior doctors.

The Scottish Tories said that “roping in civil servants” to help Mr Swinney defend his “disgraced friend” was an inappropriate use of public funds.

Craig Hoy, the Scottish Tory chairman, said: “This is an outrageous abuse of taxpayers’ money by the SNP.

“There is no justification for the SNP roping in civil servants to help them defend John Swinney’s friend and colleague who lied and stole from the taxpayer.”

Mr Matheson clung on to his job for three months, after The Telegraph first reported his data roaming bill late last year. He finally announced he would step down in February.

The issue overshadowed the early stages of the SNP’s general election campaign, with Mr Swinney continuing to defend his ally despite public outrage.

The SNP lost the Falkirk constituency, the area Mr Matheson represents at Holyrood, to Labour at the election despite it previously being the party’s safest seat in Scotland.

A Scottish government spokesman said: “Ministers are required to respond to questions asked in Parliament, so briefings and information provided by officials and special advisers reflect the issues they expect to be raised.”

An RSPCA trustee funded his “lavish lifestyle” by swindling the animal charity out of more than £100,000 during a five-year expenses scam, a court heard on Monday.

David Mawson, 50, is accused of exploiting the charity’s bank accounts to enjoy hundreds of nights in hotels he was not entitled to, as well as free taxi journeys.

Andrew Hallworth, the prosecutor, told the Inner London Crown Court jury: “This case is about fraud, we say, Mr Mawson committed over a five-year period between 2012 and 2017.

“It was a fraud committed by Mr Mawson when he was a trustee of the RSPCA, so this was a serious breach of trust by him.

“It was a fraud that was committed on a regular basis and involved Mr Mawson fraudulently using the charity’s bank card to fund his own lavish lifestyle to obtain free hotels and free taxi rides.”

The prosecution said Mr Mawson defrauded the charity of approximately £91,300 in hotel stays and approximately £10,000 in taxi fares.

“He had no right or permission to do what he did, despite anything he may say to the contrary and as such he acted dishonestly throughout,” Mr Hallworth said.

The court heard it is the volunteer trustees who make the day-to-day decisions regarding charity shops and local animal welfare projects.

Trustees are allowed to bill for “reasonable and necessary” costs, but the jury were told the money should not be for personal benefit.

Mr Mawson, from Twickenham, has pleaded not guilty to one count of fraud by abuse of position between Jan 1 2012 and Dec 21 2017, namely while occupying the position of trustee, which he dishonestly abused regarding intending to make financial gain.

The South East London Branch (SELB) of the RSPCA has three charity shops in West Norwood, Grove Park and Sydenham. Mr Mawson was the SELB secretary since 2009 until he was removed from his post in September 2018.

“He exercised control over the SELB’s bank accounts and was, we say, more active in the daily running than others, anyway more busy than he would admit,” Mr Hallworth said.

Mr Mawson typically booked Premier Inn rooms and spent over £18,000 on the SELB Barclaycard; over £43,000 on a Co-op debit card and over £29,000 on a CAF Bank corporate account, the trial heard.

Between 2013 and 2017, Mr Mawson enjoyed a total of 436 nights at various Premier Inn’s paid for by the RSPCA’s accounts.

“However, the true number is likely to be much larger as individual payments through the bank statements may represent more than one nights’ stay,” explained Mr Hallworth. “There was no charity business going on that would justify these hotel stays or taxi journeys.”

Thousands spent on taxis

Addison Lee, the taxi firm, received over £10,000 from RSPCA accounts for journeys booked by Mr Mawson.

The police were alerted by Gerda Glage, the SELB chairman, and Ivan House, her husband, and a forensic audit was carried out on their accounts between 2012 and 2018.

“He claimed [when later questioned by police] that it was no secret that he was using charity funds for hotel and taxi expenses and that he submitted relevant claims,” Mr Hallworth said.

The prosecution also produced a map of unnecessary taxi journeys billed by Mr Mawson.

Mr Mawson claimed Premier Inn had allowed him to stay for additional nights because of a a “dodgy neighbour”.

However, Mr Mawson never called the police about any issues with the neighbour, said the prosecutor.

“Even assuming that the charity was aware of this, which is not accepted, and endorsed his use of the charity’s bank accounts for that purpose, which is also not accepted, there were in fact 84 occasions when the charity paid for Premier Inn bookings when his dodgy neighbour cannot have been an issue to him, because he was in prison,” argued Mr Hallworth.

“So even if you were to give him the benefit of the doubt about some of the expenses it is difficult to see any defence to those bookings where no charity business was taking place or when his dodgy neighbour was in prison.”

The trial is expected to last seven days.

The Duke of Sussex said he believes the phrase “mental health” should be replaced with “mental fitness” as he made his debut on stage in New York.

Prince Harry, 40, joined Tessy Ojo, CEO of The Diana Award, for a panel discussion about the global mental health crisis.

Dressed in a dark blue suit and matching tie, he appeared nervous as he walked onto the stage at the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan to rapturous applause.

There was standing room only at the Concordia Annual Summit event and attendees quickly pulled out their phones to capture the royal’s arrival.

The Duke watched intently as Dr Ojo delivered her opening remarks, stating that she was “very grateful” for the Duke’s presence and describing him as “a passionate advocate for mental health”.

“He actually said to me, as we came in, that actually, we should no longer talk about mental health, we should talk about mental fitness,” she said. “His dedication to this cause strengthens our mission.”

Prince Harry said mental health was a “very, very important subject that affects every single one of us from top to bottom, from the youngest to the oldest”.

He hailed the way young winners of the Diana Award were using their voices to bring about change, stating that his late mother would have been immensely proud of them.

The Duke also called upon governments to involve young people in their decision making processes, noting that solutions do exist.

He appeared nervous throughout the 30-minute appearance, repeatedly fiddling with his tie and jacket and shifting in his chair.

The Duke and Dr Ojo were joined on stage by two winners of the Diana Legacy Award, Christina Williams from Jamaica and Chiara Riyanti Hutapea Zhang from Indonesia, taking turns to ask them a series of questions about their work and their hopes for the future.

“Surely one of the solutions here is for governments to implement, or at least find people – young people like yourselves – and bring them into decision making, policy-making situations, before the problems exist,” Prince Harry said.

“We’re very good at creating problems for ourselves to try and solve, but surely by bringing young people in at the early stages… surely that is where the difference is going to be made.

“Why is that not happening?”

The Duke also thanked the two award winners for “leading the charge in hopefully being able to break down the stigma” about mental health.

“So many people are looking for solutions,” he said. “And the fact of the matter is, there are solutions to all of these issues.

“I applaud you, certainly at your age, to be on this stage, to have the confidence that you do and to be able to speak as clearly and as passionately as you do.”

He added: “I know that my mum would be incredibly proud of you guys… the way that you do it, your activism, your compassion, those two things are so true to how my mum led her life and what she believed in. And the way that you do it is incredible, so thank you.”

The Duke said that the courage shown by the younger generation gave him hope.

“Every single one of us needs courage in order to really move the dial and create positive change in today’s world, probably more so now than ever,” he added.

“Now we need to listen, constantly listen, and then act on the advice and the vision that you have because otherwise it’s your future that’s being stolen from you and that is unacceptable.”

Both Prince William and Prince Harry have long supported the Diana Award, a charity set up to reflect the late Princess’s belief that young people can change the world and the only one to bear her name.

The event was the first of several for Prince Harry, who has travelled to New York without his wife, Meghan, for a series of high profile appearances covering a range of his key interests from conservation to sustainable travel and landmines on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s high level week.

He later spoke on behalf of the Halo Trust, the charity for which his late mother famously issued a clarion call for action by walking through an Angolan minefield in 1997.

During the event, which was held in partnership with the Angolan government, the Duke described how he “walked in my mother’s footsteps” through the former minefield in Huambo, in 2019.

“Where she first walked in 1997, I found a bustling, vibrant town”, he said.

Addressing the room, the royal added: “Much has changed in my life and the world since 2019 when I first visited Huambo.

“In those five years, I’ve become a father for the second time, and while you don’t need children to have a stake in the future of our planet, I do know that my mother would have been horrified that anyone’s children or grandchildren live in a world still invested with mines.”

Harry also spoke of his resolve to finish the work his mother had started for the charity almost three decades ago.

 “Carrying on her legacy is a responsibility incredibly seriously”, he said”, adding: “and I think we all know how much she’d want us to finish this particular job.”

As he ended his remarks, the Duke made a touching tribute to his late mother, suggesting that once the charity’s work is complete, she would be able to “rest” knowing the mission she championed was finished. 

“Let’s renew our commitments and let’s finish the job for all our sakes, so we too can look back in awe and relief, and so those who started this recovery and regeneration many years ago can rest knowing that we really did finish the job.”