Lawyers for the three-time Grammy winner say prosecutors are wrongly trying to make a crime out of a party-loving lifestyle.

The open letter was signed by 600 people urging the BBC director general Tim Davie to air the unreleased documentary, Gaza: Medics Under Fire.

Sir Keir Starmer’s claim that Britain could become an “island of strangers” risks “legitimising the same far-right violence” seen in last summer’s riots, according to a Labour MP.

Clare Lombardelli also warned that global growth will be knocked by US tariff plans, which will also reduce inflation.