Overview
- Talks between campaigners and Keir Starmer ended without agreement, and the government is expected to proceed with its security services amendment on Monday.
- Ian Byrne’s amendment to extend the duty to individual intelligence officers has 30 Labour MPs signed on, and he says he cannot back the bill as drafted.
- Parliamentary consideration was delayed from Wednesday to Monday because of the dispute over how the duty would apply to intelligence agencies.
- Ministers insist the candour obligation will cover intelligence bodies while arguing for protections for national security, which families say would leave a loophole.
- Hillsborough relatives are urging MPs to reject the government’s wording and support Byrne’s proposal, with campaigner Charlotte Hennessy endorsing that course.