Tory MP Craig Mackinlay is set to return to parliament tomorrow for the first time since almost losing his life to sepsis and having multiple amputations.

In September last year, the MP for Thanet was "rushed to hospital" after feeling unwell.

He told his constituents in December that he was "diagnosed with Sepsis and placed into an induced coma with multiple organ failures shortly after".

As a result of the illness, he has also had to have his hands and feet amputated.

Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body's own tissues and organs.

Mr Mackinlay will return to parliament for the first time tomorrow since his illness, and is set to enter the Commons chamber minutes before PMQs where he is sure to greeted by rapturous cheers from Tory colleagues.

Afterward his return to the Commons chamber, he will meet with the prime minister, Rishi Sunak.

One senior Tory MP told Sky News tonight: "What a man!"

Mr Mackinlay has been an MP since 2015 and is also a chartered accountant.

He beat Nigel Farage to win his seat in Kent, where he currently has a majority of around 10,000.

In 2019, he was cleared of breaking electoral spending laws in his defeat of the former UKIP leader and used his acquittal to call for reform of "sketchy" electoral law.

On the right of the Tory party, Mr Mackinlay's political career began as a member for UKIP, which he briefly led in 1999.

But claiming he was concerned about "the direction" it was going in, he left in 2005 and joined the Conservative Party.

By Tomos Evans, Wales reporter

Wales's first minister Vaughan Gething has said it has been a "very difficult time for members across the government".

The Labour leader faced further questions on Tuesday over a controversial £200k donation to his leadership campaign.

Critics have argued that he should not have accepted the money from a man convicted of environmental offences. Mr Gething has said the donation was within the rules.

It was the first time Senedd members had the chance to question the first minister since Hannah Blythyn was sacked from the government last week for allegedly leaking messages to the media.

Ms Blythyn denied any wrongdoing and said she was "deeply shocked and saddened" by her dismissal.

Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said there was a "discrepancy" between the accounts of the first minister and the former minister.

"One of them is right and one of them is wrong," he said.

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Some breaking news to bring you now as Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge concludes - Rishi Sunak is watering down plans to crack down on the graduate visa scheme.

The PM has ceded to the likes of Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron and watered down his original plans by keeping in place the two-year period graduates are allowed to stay in the UK after their studies - despite suggestions it could be shortened or scrapped altogether.

There are many on the right of the Conservative Party who are calling for the route to be severely restricted or scrapped altogether in a bid to reduce migration to the UK.

But top cabinet ministers, including Lord Cameron, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan and Home Secretary James Cleverly are all said to have raised concerns about the impact on universities and the economy if the rules are changed.

Nonetheless, Sky News understands at least two new measures will be unveiled later this week as the latest migration figures get announced.

These include tightening restrictions on agents that market British degree courses overseas, and subjecting some international students to mandatory English tests.

By Nick Martin, people and politics correspondent

"Workers united, will never be defeated!" a man shouts into a loud hailer. He is part of a crowd marching through the streets of Manchester in a May Day parade, organised by some of Britain's biggest trade unions.

The sun is shining and there's a festival atmosphere, as his fellow marchers hold aloft placards about workers' rights and fair pay.

Among the marchers is Jason Wyatt, a steelworker from South Wales. He is here to shine a spotlight on what's happening in his hometown of Port Talbot, where several thousand of his colleagues are facing redundancy.

There's applause as Jason takes to the stage.

"They are trying to destroy the livelihoods of 2,800 people," he says. "Port Talbot is the last bastion of heavy industry in South Wales. We have to fight."

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Sir Robert Francis, the interim chair of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority, previously chaired the inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal, where there was poor care and high mortality rates among patients.

In his report, he identified similar themes - patients not being listening to and appalling suffering.

Asked how much has changed in the last decade or so, he replies: "I think a lot has changed."

But he also adds the "lack of responsiveness" from the state continued until "very recently".

"I do think patients are in general listened to more than they were, but that's not to say that a lot more shouldn't be done."

But it will be "forgotten" unless we "keep pushing for that", and he feels "powerless" when contacted by NHS staff and patients to this day who do not feel listened to.

On the Infected Blood Compensation Authority that he is now chairing, he says they already have 20 staff in place and intend to recruit 500 people to ensure it's "an organisation which has human contact with the people who are most affected".

Sophy puts to Sir Robert Francis, the interim chair of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority, that this is a catastrophic failure of the British state - and not the only one that has come to light in recent years.

Asked what has gone wrong, he points to the report by Sir Brian Langstaff, chair of the Infected Blood Inquiry.

"A lot of it is understandable defensiveness that people have. Some of it is about the way systems of government work and how information is collected, what happens to that information."

At the heart of it, however, is "not listening to the people the state is meant to be serving, and I think that's what needs to be rectified".

"People have to be listened too and believed they've been listened to and their views taken into account. That, after all, is what democracy is about, I would have thought."

Next on Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge, we are hearing from Sir Robert Francis, the interim chair of the Infected Blood Compensation Authority.

We start by asking how he felt when he was announced as the interim chair, and campaigners cheered.

He replies simply: "Humbled."

He says he has "had the privilege" of meeting "these poor people who have not been listened to for decades in order to inform what we do", and he wants to keep listening to get their reaction to the government's proposals.

Asked for his view on what the government has announced today in terms of compensation, he replies that it is a "serious attempt" to "provide proper and fair and proportionate compensation".

Finally, justice.

Victims of the contaminated blood scandal will receive compensation - interim payments of £210,000, with the final bill perhaps even reaching £10bn.

If it seems a lot of money, it's worth remembering what we're talking about here.

Around 30,000 people were infected with HIV and Hepatitis because they were unknowingly given the blood of drug addicts and criminals.

Not everyone lived to see justice.

There were a lot of ghosts in the room when the government laid out the compensation package.

Three thousand ghosts in fact - like little Colin John Smith, who I spoke about on yesterday's programme and who I'm still thinking about, who died aged 7 weighing just 13 pounds.

The thing that gets me is the contaminated blood victims were effectively gaslighted by the state. Lied to. Made to feel like their suspicions were conspiracy theories. And this went on for decades.

Politicians, civil servants - and, yes, the NHS as well, closed ranks. They didn't think about people like Colin's grieving parents. They were more interested in cover up and self-preservation.

And I can't help but think, this is not a scandal that can be dismissed as a one-off.

Think about the Post Office. Hillsborough. Bloody Sunday.

What is it about the British state that closes ranks when horrors happen? And what can we do to change it?

We are now hearing from our panel on the state of the economy and taxation after the IMF upgraded its growth forecast for the UK (see previous post).

Asked if now could be the time for more tax cuts, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, former cabinet minister, says as a Conservative, her "instinct is always to have a low-tax economy".

That triggered a laugh from fellow panellist, Labour MP Jess Phillips, that she almost managed to stifle.

Baroness Warsi goes on to say her key concern is that since austerity in the 2010-2015 government, of which she was a part, "so much money has been spent [...] in ways which are unforgivable in so many ways".

She points to the way contracts have been allocated, "corruption" and "fraud in the COVID period".

"I think that's what concerns me - not just this issue of tax and spend, but actually, how wisely does the government spend the money that it raises in taxes."

On the more immediate question of tax cuts this year, she says a lot will be promised that may not need to be delivered.

She also has praise for the opposition for remaining "fiscally conservative".

Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, says we "have to guard against" making promises that won't be kept, which worries the Labour leadership.

"You don't need to necessarily promise the moon on a stick if you have a comfortable cushion" to win the election, after which you can start "rebuilding" trust in the government.

Next on Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge, we are hearing about the latest news from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has said the UK economy is heading for a "soft landing".

But it also reiterated its message to Jeremy Hunt that he should not have cut national insurance at the last two fiscal events.

In its annual check-up on the state of Britain's economy, the Washington-based Fund also warned of a black hole in the public finances, with £30bn of spending cuts or tax rises needed to stabilise the national debt.

The fund raised its forecast for gross domestic product growth this year from 0.5% to 0.7%, saying: "The UK economy is approaching a soft landing, with a recovery in growth expected in 2024, strengthening in 2025."

It now expects inflation to come down to close to 2% in the coming months, and the Bank of England to cut interest rates by as much as three-quarters of a percent this year, and then another percentage point next year.

Read more from our economics and data editor Ed Conway here: