What happened
The main party leaders have condemned Nigel Farage over his use of Prime Minister’s Questions to raise concerns about policing following the murder of teenager Henry Nowak.

Farage was repeatedly interrupted by MPs after claiming that public confidence had been damaged by what he described as “two-tier policing”. His intervention followed unrest in Southampton linked to anger over the circumstances surrounding Nowak’s death and the overall police response to the attack. The teenager’s family had previously appealed for his killing not to be used to inflame divisions.

Who said what
Keir Starmer accused the Reform UK leader of disregarding the family’s wishes, telling MPs: “Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division would be wrong in any circumstances, but to do it when the family are expressly saying ‘please don’t’ is unforgivable.”

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said politicians had a responsibility to unite people rather than deepen tensions, while Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey suggested that the case was being turned into a “political football”.

“We can reject Farage’s opportunism, but still say policing is broken,” said social activist Nimco Ali in The Independent. The outcry over Nowak’s fatal stabbing “is not simply about race, but also a growing sense that the police are disconnected from the public they serve”.

What next?
Attention is now turning to the Makerfield by-election, with analysts believing that the case could influence the vote.

What happened
David Cameron offered Boris Johnson a top job in his cabinet if he were to back the Remain side in the 2016 Brexit referendum, according to a new documentary being released to mark the 10-year anniversary of the landmark vote.

Johnson said he had been “interested and excited” by the proposal, but went on to support the Leave campaign instead.

Who said what
Johnson recalled being invited to play tennis with Cameron to discuss the referendum. “He then said ‘Look, would you consider joining us on the Remain campaign? It’d be much better if … I’d love to have you in the cabinet. You should have a top-five job’,” Johnson told the documentary.

Johnson’s decision to back Brexit was “ultimately a blow” to Cameron, said The Guardian. Indeed, Johnson told the documentary that when he revealed to Cameron he would actually consider supporting Leave, Cameron “did get a bit testy”. “He said ‘Well, if you do that I will f*** you up forever’. I was a bit intimidated by that because … forever is a long time to be f***ed up by the instruments of government.”

What next?
The revelations are made in the first episode of a two-part BBC documentary on the referendum titled “A Very British Civil War”, which will be broadcast on Monday at 9pm.

A class of synthetic drugs called orphines is throwing a new wrench into the ever-evolving opioid crisis in the US. These drugs have 10 times the potency of fentanyl and have led to numerous overdose deaths this year. Experts say removing them from the streets, or even identifying them, will be extremely difficult.

Orphines are a “class of opioids that was created in the 1960s”, said The New York Times, as part of a project to find “rapid, safe pain relievers for surgery”. Orphines were developed by Belgian doctor Paul Janssen, the same man who originally synthesised fentanyl. But it was soon discovered that “orphines had life-threatening side-effects such as acute respiratory depression and were highly addictive”, which halted their development.

Doctors and researchers are trying to find ways to stem the flow of orphines. Doing so is extremely challenging because it is “not hard for labs to pump it out”, according to news site The Hill. The drug isn’t simply coming from a bathroom brew made “from a couple of products or in the US”, Timothy Wiegand of the American Society of Addiction Medicine told the outlet. It is coming from international “drug distribution networks, some of the cartels or other isolated networks”.

These drugs represent a “dangerous shift in the opioid crisis”, said Dr Rachel Wirginis, a physician at the Oklahoma State University Addiction Recovery Clinic. Doctors are “seeing increasingly powerful synthetic opioids that require rapid recognition and aggressive intervention to prevent fatal outcomes”.