Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a ‘basic’ amount of food would be allowed into the territory of 2.0 million people.

Comedian Joseph Charm has been sent straight through to the final of Britain’s Got Talent by his own mother after judge Alesha Dixon allowed her to press her golden buzzer.

Government sources said negotiations were going “down to the wire” with “some outstanding issues on both sides” just hours before the planned UK-EU summit in London.