UK politics: Labour’s Khan has 22-point lead over Tory rival in London mayoral race, poll suggests – as it happened

Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London who is running for this third term in office on Thursday, has been arguing that he is at risk of losing to his Conservative opponent, the low-profile rightwinger Susan Hall.

Sadiq Khan, the Labour mayor of London who is running for this third term in office on Thursday, has been arguing that he is at risk of losing to his Conservative opponent, the low-profile rightwinger Susan Hall.

A major housing charity warned that a generation of young people are having their lives “blighted by homelessness ”, while campaigners have repeated calls for long-promised rental reforms going through parliament to be strengthened in the face of a “spiralling crisis”.

This is the highest number in the six years for which statistics are published on this measure in the data tables, and has led campaigners who have long pushed for a ban on such evictions to describe the government’s approach as “maddening”.

Decades of failure to build enough genuinely affordable social homes has left families struggling to cobble together extortionate sums every month to keep a roof over their heads.

Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA Kate Forbes, who was runner-up in the SNP leadership contest last year, dodged questions from reporters about her intentions when she went past them in the lobby at the Scottish parliament a few minutes ago.