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Penny Mordaunt will face off against Angela Rayner in a seven-way televised election debate this week. They are expected to cross swords during the Friday night clash on the BBC.

MI5 policy allowing agents to commit crimes was legal, say judges Dan Sabbagh © Photograph: Reprieve/PA Maya Foa, the director of Reprieve, said the idea that the government could authorise undercover agents to commit the most serious crimes ‘must be challenged’. MI5’s partially secret policy of allowing agents to participate in serious crimes in pursuit of intelligence was legal, three court of appeal judges have concluded. The judges held on Tuesday that MI5 was “no...