Politics

“I’m not against anything that will bring any short term relief. And I’m not against a Swiss style deal in and of itself.”

Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister, said it showed “how easy a country can slip surreptitiously into totalitarianism” at the time.

In a stinging letter, opposition MPs accused Truss of attempting to “shirk responsibility for the failures of your colleagues elsewhere in government”.

"In reality the biggest threats to academic freedom and free speech come not from staff and students, or from so-called ‘cancel culture’, but from ministers’ own attempts to police what can and cannot be said on campus."

"Short of posting a photo with a halo around his head it's hard to see what more the BBC could have done to made Cummings look good."

The government sees a culture war on "woke" culture as key to keeping power. It might work.

GLP say a focus group and support services contract was given to Public First because the PM’s then senior aide wanted the company to have it.

The Labour leader is also launching a "prawn cocktail offensive" with potential wealth donors.

The NRG say it would bring new opportunities and economic growth like it did in London and the South East.