How to run your Cabinet: Lessons for Starmer

With tensions simmering in Keir Starmerโ€™s top team over Labourโ€™sย approach to the economy, this week host Patrick Baker looks at what the PM might be able to learn about managing your ministers from past Cabinets and examines Starmerโ€™s own leadership style. David Owen, former foreign secretary under Jim Callaghan, recounts the IMF crisis in 1976 [โ€ฆ]

Tories pick first Black woman to lead a major UK political party

Kemi Badenoch will aim to get Britain’s battered Tories โ€” who quietly have a strong record on diverse representation at the top table โ€” back on their feet.

Raab rejects claim that Johnsonโ€™s government was โ€˜puppet regimeโ€™ run by Cummings โ€“ as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can read more from todayโ€™s Covid inquiry hereBack at the home affairs committee, Tim Loughton (Con) has just had another go at getting answers about the number of asylum applications that have been withdrawn. (See 10.3…