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.

Kemi Badenoch is unlikely to rescue the Tories, never mind the UK. Her selection as Conservative leader does set a precedent with the coming to office of the first black female leader of a major political party.

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,

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

The Home Secretary condemned the contents of a tweet about the new Tory leader that was shared by a Labour backbencher.