Cristina Criddle, Anna Gross, and John Aglionby, reporting from London for The Financial Times:

The UK government has conceded it will not use controversial
powers in the online safety bill to scan messaging apps for
harmful content until it is “technically feasible” to do so,
postponing measures that critics say threaten users’ privacy.

In a statement to the House of Lords on Wednesday afternoon,
junior arts and heritage minister Lord Stephen Parkinson sought to
mark an eleventh-hour effort to end a stand-off with tech
companies, including WhatsApp, that have threatened to pull their
service