Helen Pitt

Jonathan, thank you so much.

That's it for today.

My thanks to Jonathan Friedland.

You can find all of our coverage of the state visit at theguardian.com.

And while I've got you, do listen to this morning's episode of Today in Focus, where Nasheen talks to our US tech correspondent, Blake Montgomery, about the future of Apple after Tim Cook.

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This episode was presented by me, Helen Pitt.

It was produced by Bryony Moore and Nicola Alexandru.

The senior producer was Ryan Rangobin, and the lead producer was Zoe Hitch.

Today, Keir Starmer and the never-ending Peter Mandelson saga.

It's a long-established rule of British government that if a minister says something false or misleading in the debating chamber, they have to return to correct the record.

On Monday afternoon, it was Keir Starmer's turn.

Standing up before during MPs, Storm insisted he hadn't lied previously when he'd said that full due process had been followed.

It was the Foreign Office, he said, that had misled him by not telling him that Mandelson had failed vetting procedures.

If he'd known, he said repeatedly, he would not have appointed him.

Has Starmer done enough to silence calls for him to step down?

And what does all of this tell us about his judgement and his authority as the prime minister?

From The Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt.