Sir Keir Starmer is under fire after Labour took the decision to press ahead with a tuition fee hike. The Prime Minister has previously supported university costs being “abolished”, but they are now set to rise for the first time in eight years.

The road ahead for Kemi Badenoch can only be tough, with her newfound power perhaps something of a poisoned chalice. She must cope with a divided party, which won't be easily forgiven by a long-memory electorate, and which must also contend with the challenger Reform UK outflanking the Conservatives at every turn.

Sir Keir Starmer has sparked a row at the heart of the Labour Party after senior figures urged him to rethink his decision to rule out reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade. The prime minister flew into a diplomatic storm with Caribbean leaders over the issue at a summit in Samoa – and drew condemnation from his own MPs back in Britain.