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.

Sir Keir Starmer has said a Labour MP ‘shouldn’t have said what she did’ after she shared a tweet linking Kemi Badenoch with ‘white supremacy in Blackface’ as appalling. Dawn Butler is understood to have quickly removed her retweet of the post from Nigerian-British author Nels Abbey,

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.

New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to grill Keir Starmer in her first Prime Minister's Questions showdown - The former Business Secretary is preparing for her debut battle at the despatch box on Wednesday