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Skates has been interim leader since Eluned Morgan quit in the wake of Labour's Senedd election defeat.
More than 100,000 people with ADHD as their main condition receive Pip, latest figures show, an increase of 40% since Labour came to power.
The prime minister says he does not want to "jinx it" but "ask me again if we get to the final".
The former Conservative, now Reform UK, MP says the allegations are "entirely false".
The BBC's Chris Mason has been travelling with the prime minister for the Nato summit and asked a few questions.
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy had suggested the bill would be in Parliament "in the coming days".
The prime minister says the US president wished him well at the meeting of Nato leaders in Turkey.
The Reform UK leader faces a challenge from Count Binface as the main parties rule out standing in Clacton.
After the announcement that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage would quit his Clacton constituency and stand in a by-election, the serial election candidate Count Binface posted online: "Game on, Nige."
The government wants to abolish leasehold, but replacing it could prove far more complicated
The 32-year-old reported crypto entrepreneur, once convicted of fraud in the US, is a long-time Farage ally.
As Starmer gets ready to pack his bags, there's a "bunfight for jobs" in Whitehall, one MP tells Laura Kuenssberg.
In an untypically candid interview, the outgoing PM tells the BBC it was "really tough" to accept his political career was over.
BBC Verify investigates whether a shortfall in funding for the government's defence investment plan is a "black hole".
Keir Starmer announces extra defence spending - but the subject will still be one of the trickiest issues in his successor's in-tray.
BBC Verify looks at what the big numbers around the Defence Investment Plan mean for spending on the military and hitting the government's pledges.
The BBC's security correspondent analyses the details of the plan, and what they mean for the UK's armed forces.
BBC Verify has looked at what impact further devolution could be expected to have on the UK.