• Gunners trail leaders Liverpool by nine points
• Merino: ‘The mentality of these guys is unbelievable’

Mikel Merino insists Arsenal will thrive on the pressure of their bid to win the Premier League and has cited the late push in Sunday’s 1-1 draw at Chelsea as evidence of their character.

Arsenal conceded Pedro Neto’s equaliser in the 70th minute and having been in poor form since the middle of October, it may have been the trigger for them to go under. They had taken one point from three league games and lost at Inter in the Champions League last Wednesday.

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This chilling documentary follows Queen Camilla as she raises awareness of shocking cases of violence against women

“Everyone loved Jo. Except her husband.” He bludgeoned her to death in 2010. “With a claw hammer,” Joanna Simpson’s mother, Diana Parkes, explains. “Fourteen times he hit her.”

Her Majesty the Queen: Behind Closed Doors is full of such moments of breathtaking pain and cruelty, as it gives an account of Queen Camilla’s involvement with raising awareness of domestic and sexual violence – which began after the then queen consort met Parkes in 2016 and heard her and Joanna’s story. “It’s engraved on my heart,” she says, with unroyal frankness.

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Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s proposed legislation also includes powers for judges to cross-examine patients

A historic bill to legalise assisted dying will set out hardline safeguards, including lengthy prison sentences for coercion and powers for judges to cross-examine patients.

The Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said she believed she had put forward “the best possible legislation” but warned wavering MPs that parliament may not get another chance to vote again on the issue for another decade.

Patients must be over 18, have the mental capacity to make a choice about the end of their life and must be terminally ill and expected to die within six months

They must express a ‘clear, settled and informed’ wish in two separate witnessed declarations

Two independent doctors must be satisfied that the person is eligible

The application must be approved by a high court judge who would hear from at least one of the doctors and may question the patient or anyone else involved

Medicine must be self-administered with doctors banned from assisting

Coercion of a patient would be a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison

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Kim Leadbeater, the proposer of the bill, says it contains the strictest safeguards of any legislation anywhere

The 40-page terminally ill adults (end of life) bill will be published on Tuesday. The bill’s main elements, released in advance, set out what it contains.

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From Nigel Farage to Suella Braverman and Tony Blair, the bloviating talking heads in this documentary give a good sense of how immigration policy became polluted by racism

Who’s up for an in-depth look at the last 20 years of UK immigration policy? Come on, it’ll be fun!

I’m joking, of course. It’s no fun at all! It’s full of politicians, for a start, and they’re talking. It’s fascinating how unbearable almost every single one is, no matter where you sit on the political spectrum. The first instalment of the two-part documentary, Immigration: How British Politics Failed, fields Tony Blair, Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman, David Cameron and Michael Howard … It’s like there’s no safe place to rest your eyes, ears or brain, as they bloviate or simply recreate – alongside archive news footage and tabloid headlines – the lowlights of the past few decades, over the question of how many people, for what reason and with what motivation we should take in from other countries.

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Ali Musse, 66, charged after Hilkiah McLeggan, 77, pronounced dead at scene in East Street, Walworth

A man has been charged with murder after a fatal stabbing in south London.

Police were called at about 10.40am on Sunday after reports of a number of people stabbed in East Street, Walworth. Three people were found with injuries and Hilkiah McLeggan, 77, from Southwark, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Metropolitan police said.

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Exclusive: inspectors raise alarm about mayor Lutfur Rahman, who previously served a five-year ban from office

Ministers are to intervene in the management of Tower Hamlets after inspectors raised the alarm about the leadership of the east London authority’s controversial mayor, Lutfur Rahman.

Sources have told the Guardian the government has decided to appoint an envoy to monitor management decisions at the council, which has been dogged by a series of controversies about public spending and senior-level appointments.

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Urfan Sharif allegedly reported to police for controlling behaviour by three ‘unconnected’ women before his daughter’s death

The father of Sara Sharif was accused of abusing three girlfriends before his daughter’s death, a court has heard.

Urfan Sharif, 42, was allegedly reported to the police by three “separate, unconnected women” who each accused him of holding them against their will and controlling behaviour.

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President-elect says ex-New York congressman will ‘ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions’ as EPA administrator

Donald Trump has picked Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), vowing the appointment will “ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions” by the regulator.

Trump, who oversaw the rollback of more than 100 environmental rules when he last was US president, said that Zeldin was a “true fighter for America First policies” and that “he will ensure fair and swift deregulatory decisions that will be enacted in a way to unleash the power of American businesses, while at the same time maintaining the highest environmental standards, including the cleanest air and water on the planet”.

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