After standing down as UK Prime Minister earlier this summer, Keir Starmer has decided to announce his resignation as MP for Holborn and St Pancras.

It comes on Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s first day addressing MPs in the House of Commons. Was the timing deliberate, or coincidental?

Prime Minister Burnham has returned to the House of Commons after Summer Recess promising to ‘unlock a feeling of positivity and possibility’ – but what issues are awaiting the new-ish prime minister?

Plus, James Cleverly has announced plans to run for London Mayor, and Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has done a surprise shadow cabinet reshuffle.

Adam Fleming and Chris Mason are back together on Newscast to unpack it all.

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00:00 Introduction
00:34 MPs are back in Westminster
01:39 Keir Starmer resigns as MP
12:20 Andy Burnham speaks in the Commons
17:02 Can the PM get ahead of the early prisoner release debate?
23:01 James Cleverly announces he is running for London Mayor
26:02 Conservative party shadow cabinet reshuffle

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Playboy has for the first time featured a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. The BBC’s Hanan Razek met Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri to find out why she wanted to pose for the magazine, which stopped publishing fully nude photos in 2015.

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The death toll in Nepal from devastating floods on the border with Tibet has crossed 1,000, according to the country’s disaster agency.

More than 3,900 people remain missing – of whom more than 600 are workers believed to be trapped in a vast network of mud-filled tunnels at hydropower sites along Trishuli River.

Engineers have been pumping air into the tunnels – and while a team did manage to gain entry to one of them, it withdrew after finding no-one there.

The rescue operation is being spearheaded by an international team made up of Chinese and Nepalese military personnel, while experts from India, Korea and Australia are also involved.

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Two senior officials stood down from Reform UK after a Channel 4 News report prompted the party to investigate claims about funding.

Nigel Farage’s senior aide Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy James Orr have both stood down pending the outcome of the internal probe. The undercover filming was done by Verbatim Investigations and broadcast by Channel 4 News. Reform UK has denied wrongdoing and Nigel Farage describes the operation as entrapment.

The footage appears to show an attempt to secure funding from someone they believed to be a foreign donor. Electoral law prohibits UK political parties from receiving financial contributions from people who can’t vote here. Reform denies any wrongdoing and says it has “been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign-funded climate change activists”. Adam and Chris discuss.

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Londoners are able to hail the UK’s first robotaxis – as Uber today becomes the first company to launch a self-driving minicab.

Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready to take control if anything goes wrong.

Uber said it surveyed London-based customers via the app and more than 100,000 said they would choose a self-driving taxi if one was available, despite incidents of driverless rides malfunctioning in US cities where they already operate.

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