The prime minister says his MPs must ‘make their own mind up’ on whether to vote in favour of legalising assisted dying

The UK’s jobs market has shown further signs of cooling after a rise in unemployment in September while pay growth slowed, Richard Partington reports.

Good morning. Parliament passes important laws (as well as some rather tedious ones), but normally the process is predictable because the government is in charge and most of what it does foreshadowed in a manifesto. Once a minister says ‘X will become law’, usually it does.