Settlement goods banned; 30-year gilt at 5.82%
Rewritten on 10 September in the new bitesize format, which the dispatch now uses every day: a three-line summary, bullets, shorter sentences. Facts, sources and the parallel record are unchanged.
- Real UK: Bans imports from Israeli settlements; sells 30-year debt at 5.82%, the dearest since 1998; tells Apple and Google to build child-safety tools into phones.
- Parallel UK: Lays the same settlement ban; borrowing costs rise less; radiology AI's second day passes without incident.
- The argument: Legislate the outcome for children's phones, not the method.
- Ed Miliband told MPs Britain now regards Israel's occupation as unlawful and will ban goods from settlements. Trade with Israel itself is unaffected.
- The Treasury sold 30-year bonds at 5.82%. That is the highest cost at any government bond sale since 1998.
- Lisa Nandy said the government will force Apple and Google to stop children's phones taking or sharing nude images.
You cannot call an occupation unlawful and keep buying what it produces. Exempting trade with Israel itself keeps it targeted. My government laid the same ban this afternoon.
I would put the outcome in law: a child's phone cannot take or share a nude image, by a deadline, tested independently. How they do it is their job. A scanning tool written into law stays on every phone long after the reason for it has gone.
Machinery — Laid the settlement ban with its legal reasoning published. The Veto Council has until Friday to object.
Machinery — Bond costs rose here too, but less. Our advantage over the real UK widened to 0.51 percentage points. Debt interest is now £0.6bn over the draft Budget; the Commons decides on 16 September.
Health — Radiology AI, day two: 5,300 images read by 5pm, no incidents.
watching two counters, one for images and one for bond yields, and only enjoying one of them.
Next dispatch: tomorrow 6pm.