In the detail again…
Exc: Keir Starmer will scrap a veto for security service chiefs that would have allowed them to block spies from giving evidence to public inquiries under the latest changes to the Hillsborough law.
The prime minister is poised to water down blanket powers for MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to prevent spies from giving evidence over national security concerns.
Instead, service chiefs will have to make a court application for the disclosure to be partially or fully exempted in line with present practices, such as a public interest immunity application.
In a further olive branch to victims' families and Labour MPs, the PM will also extend the new duty of candour law in legislation to cover counterterrorism police and defence intelligence.
It is the latest move by No 10 to try to unblock the legislation that has been delayed for a year.
However, government insiders conceded that the bill would not be passed before the end of the parliamentary session - so will have to be rolled over into the next one