President Trump’s pick to head the Transportation Department, after the White House budget office issued a memo Monday evening pausing large swaths of federal funding, which Democrats warned would plunge the nation in chaos.

Kemi Badenoch was loudly reprimanded by the Speaker in PMQs for claiming the prime minister “misled” the Commons last week. That is a serious accusation to make against any member of the government and can even jeopardise a minister’s job in some cases.

Kemi Badenoch hbranded Sir Keir Starmer’s education reforms “an act of vandalism” in a Commons clash. The Tory leader said that under the Conservatives pupil attainment in maths, reading and science soared, with English schools now top of global league tables in the subjects.

Michael Saunders, a former member of the BoE's monetary policy committee which sets interest rates, said the latest inflation figure would be "some help" in trying to ease some of the worries over the UK economy - more on that in our next post.

In response to the prime minister’s press conference yesterday, Kemi Badenoch said she welcomed a public inquiry into the Southport murders but added — in a warning to the government — that there remain “serious questions” to answer.