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The Prime Minister's chief of staff gets the boot - why has she gone and where does it leave this ailing Labour government?
Sue Gray has been ousted after losing a power struggle with Starmer's director of political strategy Morgan McSweeney. Camilla and Kamal explain why her defenestration matters, how it shows the PM's lack of judgement and why he now needs to get a grip of the narrative - fast.
And Israel is marking the first anniversary of the October 7th attacks. In the worst terrorist atrocity on Israeli soil, Hamas murdered almost 1,200 people, raped and tortured others and kidnapped 250 men, women and children. 97 of the hostages are yet to be accounted for. We hear from the Israelis whose lives were changed forever on that fateful day.
Read: The fate of Israel’s hostages one year on
Additional reporting by Naomi Greenaway, Charlotte Lytton, Nicole Lampert and Lauren Libbert.
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