Wednesday evening news briefing: Angela Rayner investigated over council tax fraud claims

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Good evening. Police are investigating Angela Rayner over council tax fraud claims alongside possible electoral offences, with around a dozen officers assigned to the case.

Elsewhere, MPs have voted to remove all of the amendments made by peers to the Rwanda Bill as the parliamentary battle over Rishi Sunak’s flagship plan continues.

Angela Rayner investigated over council tax fraud claims

On Tuesday, Stephen Watson, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, said there were “a number of assertions knocking about” that the force would “get to the bottom of”. Stockport council is understood to have been assessing correspondence from James Daly, the Conservative deputy chairman.

Rwanda amendments rejected by MPs with Bill set to return to Lords

Rishi Sunak is hopeful the Rwanda Bill will finally become law after another round of “parliamentary ping-pong” – Carl Court

The Bill will now return to the House of Lords later today for further scrutiny. If peers dig in and back fresh changes to the legislation then a fourth round of “ping-pong” will be triggered, further delaying the Bill from finally becoming law.

18 wounded in Hezbollah drone attack on Israel

At least 18 people were wounded when a drone fired by Hezbollah slammed into a building in Northern Israel on Wednesday. One of the victims was wounded critically and two others were in a serious condition after the strike on the border village of Arab al-Aramshe.

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Horizon IT inquiry | A former Post Office inspector “asked a sub-postmistress’s son if he loved” his mother, the inquiry has heard.

Watch: Dubai airport flooded after deadly record rainfall

Dubai airport was flooded in a record downpour that killed one and disrupted travel through the world’s busiest airfield for international travel. Watch more footage here.

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Business news: Google employees arrested after protesting against tech giant’s work with Israel

A group of Google workers have been arrested after they held a sit-in protest to challenge the tech giant’s work for the Israeli government. Employees from the No Tech For Apartheid movement organised a 10-hour sit-in at Google’s offices in New York and California on Tuesday.

Live markets news: World faces permanently higher interest rates, warns Bank of England official

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