NHS England will be abolished and brought under "democratic control" in an attempt to cut bureaucracy and duplication, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The prime minister said the move would free up money for front-line services.

The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has announced plans to abolish NHS England, the organisation that oversees and manages the NHS in England, employing 19,000 people. He declared he was bringing the NHS back under “democratic control” and cutting unnecessary bureaucracy by moving oversight of the NHS back into the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Actor Gene Hackman's daughter Leslie Anne Allen had been largely out of the public eye since she was proven incorrect about the health and wellbeing of her father. But she finally emerged in public this week.