Never miss a moment Stay ahead with live news updates in our award-winning app Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | Sir Keir Starmer is facing a growing backlash from senior Labour figures who want the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to be reformed so more migrants can be deported.
Jo White, the leader of the Red Wall caucus of some 40 Labour MPs, called for a review after Jack Straw, the former home secretary, urged the Prime Minister to “decouple” Britain from the ECHR and Lord Blunkett, also a former Labour home secretary, called for its suspension. Charles Hymas, our Home Affairs Editor, discusses below how Sir Keir has suddenly come under pressure to withdraw from the convention.
| Charles Hymas Home Affairs Editor | Quitting the ECHR has become the policy battleground in how to stop the boats – although Sir Keir Starmer is not, it appears, for turning.
On his Right is Nigel Farage, the Reform leader who wants to leave the ECHR in order to seek powers to detain and deport all illegal migrants without recourse to asylum.
Kemi Badenoch will set out her plans at the Tories’ autumn conference on how and in what circumstances she could take the UK out of the ECHR.
On Sir Keir’s soft Right, as we revealed yesterday, Jack Straw has urged the PM to consider decoupling the UK’s human rights laws from the ECHR because he claims courts are misusing it to block deportations.
It follows a proposal from Lord Blunkett for Sir Keir to suspend the ECHR to clear the appeals backlog of 50,000 asylum claimants clogging up hotels.
Now I have spoken to Jo White, and she too says the ECHR “has had its time” and needs to be reviewed.
For the moment, Downing Street is batting off more extreme calls for ECHR departure, warning it would align the UK with Belarus and Russia and jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement. Watch this space, though. Next month Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, will set out Labour’s more overtly practical approach to the ECHR, where she will seek to clip the wings of the judiciary to try to ensure foreign criminals and failed asylum seekers no longer exploit the convention to avoid deportation.
Continue reading ➤ |  | Alex Singleton Business Reporter | Weight-loss jabs have promised to transform our waistlines – with more than a million Britons buying them privately. But their affordability is under threat after Donald Trump took umbrage at prices in New York being higher than in London.
Drugmakers are scrambling to respond to the US president’s demand that they give American patients the lowest prices in the world.
Previously, drug firms were able to rely on the American market, with its lavish spending on private healthcare, to bankroll their research and development. Patients there had little choice but to pay higher prices. However, drug companies are now changing tack, raising prices internationally to pay for cuts in the US.
As a result, the British price of Mounjaro, the most popular of the jabs, will soar 170 per cent next month. The wholesale price of a month’s supply of the highest dose will increase from £122 to £330. The rise could cause a surge in demand for the drug on the NHS for those who meet a strict eligibility criteria. However, the stark price rises could leave hundreds of thousands stuck without continued access to the wonder drugs that worked after endless diets failed.
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|  | Nick Harding | I don’t know about you, but on holiday I become a different person.
I’m upgraded. Nick 2.0. Stronger, fitter, faster. Perhaps it’s the sun, or the vino, or the freedom to wear pastels. But away from the drudge of everyday life, I scuba dive, I jet ski, I dive off rocks.
But I’m also no spring chicken, and at 55, sometimes perhaps I should rein myself in for fear of becoming one of the 4.4 million Britons who report being injured on holiday.
A 2023 index used data to rank dangerous holiday activities and found that the deadliest was mountain and rock climbing, with one death for every 3,125 climbers. So, from scuba diving to kayaking, what are the riskiest things you can do on your holiday, and what are the safer alternatives? I asked a personal trainer to find out.
Continue reading ➤ | Desperately seeking sleep Every weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
This newsletter is a radically anti-soporific enterprise. Our purpose is to leave you energised, invigorated, ready to bound off and seize the day. Still, even those of us who take a Thatcherite line on sleep need the odd bit of shut-eye, and it’s a terrible thing when it just won’t come.
Telegraph readers are here to help with that. In response to our article on the technique of “cognitive shuffling”, used to combat insomnia, you shared your own methods.
Diane Meadows revealed: “I have a very successful way of knocking myself out in bed. I am blessed with many good women friends who have supported me through a difficult time healthwise. When I put my head down on the pillow I start to run through the list in my mind, in alphabetical order, using first names – and ponder for a second or two on their qualities and how much they mean to me. I rarely get to J or K.”
Dominic Weston Smith added: “Having an extensive family, I find counting cousins a useful cure for insomnia. I can get through the first and second tiers, but am rarely into the third before Morpheus prevails.”
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles prefers to “list the states of the US in alphabetical order. The rule is that if I miss one I have to start again. Sometimes, for variety, I use the shipping areas of the weather forecast in their correct order”.
And if that doesn’t work, there’s always Patricia Essex’s trick: “I go over my game of golf. I never get past the second hole.” How do you vanquish sleeplessness? You can let me know here, or head to our Your Say page, exclusively on the Telegraph app. | Join the debate Share your thoughts with our journalists and your fellow readers Enjoy four months’ free access to The Telegraph. Cancel at any time. | | Find as many words as you can in today’s Panagram, including the nine-letter solution. Visit Telegraph Puzzles to play a range of head-scratching games, including PlusWord, Sorted, and Quick, Mini or Cryptic Crosswords.
The solution to yesterday’s clue was PRODUCING. Come back tomorrow for the answer to today’s puzzle. | | Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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