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The UK is pledging to shift its focus towards countries such as India, Japan and Australia, after a year-long review of its foreign policy.

The government said it would boost alliances in the Indo-Pacific region, describing it as “increasingly the geopolitical centre of the world”. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK would work with China on issues such as climate change. And he warned against adopting a “Cold-War mentality” with the country.

The review, which Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out later in the House of Commons, also paves the way for an increase in nuclear warheads.

Labour says the strategy will leave the UK “woefully unprepared”.

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Women must feel their complaints about violence are “properly heard”, the PM has said, after concern about how a vigil for Sarah Everard was policed.

Boris Johnson said footage of officers forcibly removing a number of women from the event was “distressing”. He added it was “fundamental” that women felt listened to and he was “going to make sure that happens”.

Asked if he still had confidence in Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, Mr Johnson said: “Yes I do.” “The reality is that the country is united still in shock and grief about what happened to Sarah Everard and we must do everything we can to find the answers,” Mr Johnson said. “I think the fundamental issue that we have to address as a country, and as a society and as a government is that … women in particular must feel that when they make serious complaints about violence, about assault, that they are properly heard. “We are going to make sure that that happens.”

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Scotland Yard is to be investigated over its handling of an allegation of indecent exposure against the officer suspected of murdering Sarah Everard.

The police watchdog will consider if Metropolitan Police officers “responded appropriately” to the alleged incident. Ms Everard, 33, was last seen in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. The case has prompted an outpouring of shock and anger as women across the country share their own experiences of feeling unsafe.

Organisers of a “Reclaim These Streets” vigil planned for Saturday evening on Clapham Common claim the police say it cannot go ahead because of pandemic lockdown restrictions, and are preparing to go to the High Court.

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The number of prisoners believed to have been infected with coronavirus may be up to six times as many as the published figure, it has emerged.

Public Health England (PHE) says it has found 1,783 “possible/probable” cases – on top of 304 confirmed infections across jails in England and Wales. PHE’s report says there have been no “explosive outbreaks” in prisons, but “significant threat levels” remain. Measures to quarantine new and at-risk inmates are needed for a year, it adds.

The report, published by the Ministry of Justice, says access to testing for prisoners has been “limited and variable”. “Therefore, the number of laboratory confirmed cases reported does not represent the true burden of infection in the prison system,” it said.

“During outbreaks, where a number of positive laboratory samples have been received (usually around five or more) on prisoners who have been swabbed, then subsequent cases who meet the clinical case definition are included as ‘possible/probable cases’.”

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A 19-year-old man has died and another teenager is in hospital after a stabbing in Tottenham, north London.

Three men were attacked shortly before 14:00 GMT on Penshurst Road near White Hart Lane station, the Met Police said. Air ambulance crews treated the 19-year-old victim but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A second man, aged 18, was taken to hospital with stab wounds, while a third victim suffered minor injuries, police said.

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