Good evening. Parents who smoked large amounts of cannabis and later went on to kill their baby on Christmas Day have been jailed for life.

Finley Boden's parents jailed for 'savage' murder of baby

Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden have been ordered to serve minimum terms of 29 and 27 years respectively after they inflicted 130 separate injuries on 10-month-old Finley before he died in 2020.

Jeremy Hunt will accept a recession if it brings down inflation

The Chancellor said he would back the Bank of England in raising interest rates further, as he insisted that the “only path to sustainable growth” is to bring down the high prices behind the cost of living crisis.

Chris Price and Melissa Lawford have more on Mr Hunt's comments, as he said prioritising measures to slow rising prices was necessary even if rate hikes damage the UK's GDP.

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Investigation into Baroness Falkner suspended after 'civil servant coup'

Britain's equality watchdog has suspended an investigation into its chief amid a growing backlash over an attempted coup by trans-activist civil servants.

Baroness Falkner of Margravine, 68, the chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), was the target of a dossier of complaints from officials.

Ewan Somerville details how the investigation plunged the watchdog into crisis and sparked outcry across the political spectrum.

Evening Briefing: Today's essential headlines

Roger Waters | Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters is being investigated by Berlin police for incitement to hatred after he donned a Nazi-style uniform at a concert in the German capital. You can see a picture of Waters wearing the uniform here.

• BA | Half-term holidays in chaos as airline cancels flights for a second day

• Politics | Labour regains ‘commanding’ poll lead over Tories

• South Korea | Passengers terrified as man opens plane door in mid-air - watch

• Hugh Grant | Actor unable to bring phone hacking claims against The Sun in High Court trial

• Nick Cave | I was ‘sometimes extremely bored’ at Coronation, says singer-songwriter

Comment and analysis

• Tom Harris | Protests have become a middle-class day out

• Kate Andrews | Biden and Labour are a match made in economic hell

• Anne-Elisabeth Moutet | France has given up on defending Europe

• Ivana Stradner | Putin’s mini-Nato is falling apart

• Telegraph readers | Why you’re wrong about self-service checkouts

World news: Russia can fight Ukraine war for ‘decades’, says Putin ally

Russia’s war will take decades and will not stop unless Ukraine surrenders, a top Russian official has predicted. Nataliya Vasilyeva has more on Dmitry Medvedev's comments.

Interview of the day

The pop star who went through hell – and found peace in the paranormal

Kesha, locked in a legal battle with producer Dr Luke for almost a decade, on crying with Rick Rubin and her dark but brilliant new album

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Business news: Landlord mortgage crisis on track to trigger the sale of 735,000 rental homes

As many as 735,000 properties will be lost from the rental market as a result of rising mortgage rates forcing landlords to sell up, economists are predicting. Alexa Phillips has more on the research.

Editor's choice

Fashion | Britain’s male TV presenters have never looked so stylish

Katie Morley Investigates | ‘I spent £20,000 on a heat pump, it broke and now no one will fix it’

Luton | The football match that could transform a town

Sport news: Emily Bridges, trans cyclist, furious at ‘genocidal’ British Cycling after elite racing ban

Emily Bridges has launched a scathing attack on British Cycling, accusing it of 'genocide' against transgender cyclists after trans women were permanently banned from racing against females in British competitive events. You can read her 651-word statement in full here.

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