DEN HAAG (ANP) - Gezondheidsminister Sophie Hermans (VVD) wil de behandeling van het wetsvoorstel om het eigen risico te verhogen uitstellen tot na de zomer. Dat werd donderdagavond duidelijk, toen Ingrid Coenradie (JA21) en Diederik van Dijk (SGP) voorstelden de behandeling uit te stellen en Hermans zich daar in kon vinden. Dit zorgde voor woede bij oppositiepartijen PRO, PVV en SP.

In de toelichting van de wet staat dat de wet uiterlijk begin juli behandeld moet zijn. Coenradie en Van Dijk willen eerst een analyse van de financiële effecten van de verhoging, zoals een aangenomen motie van Chris Stoffer (SGP) voorschrijft, afwachten en Hermans heeft daar begrip voor. Ze herhaalde meermaals dat haar harde deadline 1 oktober is. "Vanuit VWS zal alles op alles worden gezet om het proces in goede banen te leiden", aldus Hermans.

"Ik vind dit wel een heel raar figuur", zei Julian Bushoff (PRO) over de verandering van het tijdspad. "Wat speelt hier?", aldus Bushoff, die Hermans ervan beticht te onderhandelen met JA21 en SGP.

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Jongeren die structureel wegblijven van school moeten volgens een advies van de Raad voor de Strafrechtstoepassing en Jeugdbescherming niet meer strafrechtelijk worden vervolgd. Zorg en passend onderwijs werken beter..

Mercedes have announced that they have withdrawn their Right of Review request over the results of the Monaco Grand Prix.

John from Brisbane has added a photo to the pool:

Unusually, South East Queensland seems to have been like this on and off for several weeks. Winter is usually our dry season and great for photographic adventures with the sun at the top of the northern skies. Although the total rainfall has not been that great, at times it's just been bleak.

This image was shot from the Woody Point jetty looking south towards Brisbane proper. The whole area has now been fully fenced off, the Moreton Bay City Council is attempting to create some form of new beach here, looks a long winded, expensive and almost unnecessary project to me. Futile?

The Redcliffe Peninsula is already replete with lovely beaches so why create more when nature doesn't quite see the point. Besides, without removing all that Redcliffe rock, digging into the imported sand might result in smashed fingers for the little kids!

On the flip side, when the sun is shining but a sunset, the view to the south across Bramble Bay (a bay within Moreton Bay) to the distant mountains is said to be an outstanding sunset image location.

You don’t win World Cups by running riot for 10 minutes in mid-June but this felt like the start of something new

Walking away from Dallas Stadium, feet throbbing in the heat of the late-evening Texas tarmac, it was tempting to picture the scene inside England’s dressing room three hours earlier, the score 2-2 at half-time against a perky Croatia, with Thomas Tuchel’s side in danger of slipping into a familiar tournament pattern of entropy and angst.

What exorcism was performed here? Did England’s players burn a ceremonial John Lewis merino wool slim-fit quarter zip? Did Tuchel deliver his calm, tactically focused half-time speech while simultaneously sawing the head off the lifesize Gareth Southgate effigy the team still carries around with it, before inviting his players to whack it like a piñata, open letters tumbling from the waistcoat pockets, leadership mottoes and worries about penalties scattered across the floor as its bearded and frowning head steadily deflates, a moment of pure era-shedding catharsis?

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Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor hopes a win over Reform UK will help force the prime minister to step aside

• Polls close in Makerfield byelection as Andy Burnham eyes No 10

• Burnham brings in top economists before possible leadership run

The Makerfield byelection has regularly been described as potentially the most consequential byelection in British history. People have written that on the assumption that Andy Burnham will win, and that he will replace Keir Starmer as PM. While those both seem to be reasonable assumptions, in a country with a history of parliamentary government as long as Britain’s a description of any event that involves saying it is the most consequential ever is probably not strictly accurate.

Here are just a handful examples of other byelections that have been similar to this one in some respects, or highly influential.

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Switzerland have several toes in the knockout stage after overwhelming Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last 20 minutes in LA. Freiburg’s Johan Manzambi, aged 20, came off the bench to score twice.

Canada’s head coach Jesse Marsch makes two changes. Cyle Larin, who came off the bench to equalise against Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Ali Ahmed come in for Liam Millar and Tani Oluwaseyi. Alphonso Davies is among the substitutes.

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