Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of making “a grubby deal” with Suella Braverman to reappoint her, thus jeopardising national security and exacerbating the asylum crisis, in another prime minister’s questions dominated by the issue of the home secretary’s future. The Albanian prime minister, Edi Rama, has accused Rishi Sunak’s government of using his country’s citizens as scapegoats for failed immigration policies after critical comments by Suella Braverman about Albanian asylum seekers. Rishi Sunak is set to ditch his flagship Conservative leadership campaign pledges, as No 10 admitted there would be a review to assess whether they were still “deliverable” as a result of the worsening economic backdrop. Rishi Sunak is to attend the Cop27 climate summit in Egypt next week after No 10 previously said he was too focused on the domestic economy to attend and banned King Charles from going. The United Nations’ poverty envoy has warned Rishi Sunak that unleashing a new wave of austerity in this month’s budget could violate the UK’s international human rights obligations and increase hunger and malnutrition. It will be “extremely difficult” for the Conservatives to win the next general election after presiding over a fiscal crisis, although a change of prime minister makes predictions more complex, the leading pollster Sir John Curtice has said. Matt Hancock has said his decision to appear on I’m a Celebrity was motivated by a desire to showcase his “human side” and to use reality TV as a platform to “deliver important messages to the masses”. John Swinney, Scotland’s deputy first minister, has set out “savings” of £615m as he published his emergency budget review. As PA Media reports, Swinney said the measures are necessary to tackle rising inflation and economic uncertainty. The sum includes £400m of spending “reprioritisation” within the health and social care portfolio in order to support a pay offer for staff. The emergency budget review was first announced in early September, when additional savings of £500m were set out. Despite the UK government’s fiscal statement being due on 17 November, Swinney said he would “wait no longer” to outline his own proposals.