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Asylum seekers who have already had their claims rejected will now be part of the group being removed to Rwanda, the home secretary has announced today.

James Cleverly said the UK has extended the deal it made with the east African country to now include those who have come to Britain illegally, claimed asylum and had their application rejected.

Previously, only those deemed to have arrived illegally in the UK on or after 1 January 2022 and who had been informed their claim may be inadmissible - but had not been officially rejected - were in the group to be sent to the African country.

The plan had been that those asylum seekers would then have their asylum claims processed in Rwanda, where they would be allowed to stay if successful, or would have to seek asylum in another country.

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The Sky News live poll tracker - collated and updated by our Data and Forensics team - aggregates various surveys to indicate how voters feel about the different political parties.

With the local elections complete, Labour is still sitting comfortably ahead, with the Tories trailing behind.

See the latest update below - and you can read more about the methodology behind the tracker here.

Hundreds of young men have died trying to use boats to get from Senegal to the Canary Islands.  

On this episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson hears about what's been called the "deadliest and busiest migrant passage in the world".  

Niall is joined by our Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir who has been to the fishing town of Mbour on the Senegalese coast to see the scale of the problem.

Plus, in the UK, our communities correspondent Becky Johnson has been speaking to asylum seekers who say they're considering not attending appointments which are a condition of their immigration bail.

It comes as the Home Office tries to trace thousands of missing asylum seekers, with a view to deporting some of them to Rwanda in a bid to deter illegal small boat Channel crossings.

In January 2023, Rishi Sunak made five promises.

Since then, he and his ministers have rarely missed an opportunity to list them. In case you haven't heard, he promised to:

• Halve inflation
• Grow the economy
• Reduce debt
• Cut NHS waiting lists and times
• Stop the boats

See below how he is doing on these goals:

By Faye Brown, political reporter

Labour has launched the process to select a general election candidate to replace Jeremy Corbyn in the London seat of Islington North.

The former Labour leader has had the party whip suspended since 2020 over his response to a report into antisemitism, meaning he currently sits as an independent MP.

Last year he was effectively blocked from standing for Labour after the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) backed a motion to prevent him from being endorsed for the seat he has represented for more than 40 years.

The veteran MP was first elected to represent Islington North in 1983 and has won it at each of the last 10 elections, often by a comfortable margin.

Mr Corbyn, who remains a Labour member, has still not said whether he plans to run as an independent. Doing so could result in him being suspended from the party he has been part of for 50 years.

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Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are both facing a historic lack of popularity among ethnically diverse communities, new polling suggests.

While ethnically diverse community voting trends are incredibly complex and almost always hard to predict, some polling can give useful indications that can speak to the mood of the country.

A comprehensive set of data based on polling by Ipsos and shared exclusively with Sky News gives us a general sense of how the leaders of the two main parties are faring at this very specific time.

Mr Sunak was named the UK's next leader on the festival of Diwali, serving as a reminder of the milestone in Britain's evolution as a multicultural and multi-faith society.

He's the UK's first prime minister from an ethnically diverse background and the first Hindu prime minister, but in terms of how much ethnically diverse communities have rewarded him for these historic firsts, it's a somewhat surprising figure.

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The British Medical Association and the government have mutually agreed to explore mediation, a step which could ultimately end strike action by junior doctors.

A mediator has been agreed between the two parties, and they will shortly the process in a bid to end months of disruption to the medical field.

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said: "As Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, my duty is to patients and I want to pursue all avenues to resolve the dispute with the BMA junior doctors committee.

"This will ensure they can focus on delivering the highest quality care and help consolidate our recent progress on waiting lists.

"I am pleased the BMA have agreed to explore mediation and I am hopeful that it will provide a way forward."

Labour's attempt to specifically ban "ninja swords" in the UK has been defeated in the House of Commons.

MPs voted 272 to 171, majority 101, against new clause 59, which would have banned the weapon.

They also voted 275 to 167, majority 108, to reject new clause 44, which sought to replace "prostitution for gain" with "sexual exploitation of an adult".

A Liberal Democrat proposal designed to make it an offence to fail to meet pollution performance commitment levels was defeated by 268 votes to 17, majority 251.

Consideration of the Criminal Justice Bill has ended for the day, with the second day of report stage yet to be scheduled.

Ninja swords are "difficult to ban" as straight-edged swords can be held for commemorative purposes, justice minister Laura Farris said.

Responding to shadow justice minister Alex Cunningham, she said: "I wanted to just provide the reassurance that there are both straight-bladed ninja swords, which I know that his amendment is directed at, but also curved swords.

"They're both covered. Curved swords were banned by the government in 2008.

"He will know that possessing a sword or any knife, even a kitchen knife, in a public place without good reason is already a criminal offence punishable by up to four years in prison."

The UK will spend £140m next year helping starving people in Yemen who are suffering one of the most "acute humanitarian crises in the world", the deputy foreign secretary has said.

Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Andrew Mitchell raised the plight of the Yemeni people, whom he said were living "on the margins of subsistence" following nearly a decade of civil war.

Mr Mitchell promised that the UK's bilateral support for Yemen would increase by 60% and that any money provided would be designed "directly to help people who are in a very perilous humanitarian position".

"It is Britain doing good, going to the rescue of the most desperate people in the world and helping them," he said.

The deputy foreign secretary's intervention comes following months of reporting from Yemen from Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford, who has detailed how the war in Gaza has had an adverse impact on the Yemeni people.

Yemen's Houthi militants, backed by Iran, have targeted ships in the Red Sea region which they claim are linked to Israel or helping its war effort.

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