Keir Starmer and his Cabinet are holding their regular meeting as the final touches are put to Labour's first legislative package.
The PM and his senior team are holding their regular meeting as the final touches are put to the legislative package - designed to show that Labour has hit the ground running with its 'change' agenda.
Spiking drinks will be made a specific criminal offence, and police will be ordered to tackle lower-value shoplifting.Defence Secretary John Healey and Lord Robertson, who is overseeing a review, arriving for Cabinet todayLords leader Baroness Smith and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arrive for Cabinet
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper wants to extend powers under the Terrorism Act to organised immigration crime. The government is keen to look tough on the issue, after a former border chief claimed yesterday that Kurdish people-smuggling gangs were calling Sir Keir the 'friendly one' after he scrapped Rishi Sunak's plan to send migrants to Rwanda.
The strengthening of the OBR, which was outlined in Labour's manifesto, is designed to ensure 'nobody can play fast and loose with the public finances ever again', Downing Street said. The Home Affairs Committee, which the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper previously chaired, have previously recommended that spiking be recognised as a standalone crime punishable by up to 10 years in jail.
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