David Lammy: “The first purpose of any government is defence of the nation. I am not going to comment on the discussions I have with…”

I have the honour to say that His Majesty the King has accepted our advice to grant Ruth Ellis a conditional pardon – the last woman to be hanged.

Everyone can see that the Reform leader is just trying to distract from the fact that he's up to his neck in sleaze.

I am confident it will be back in the coming days.

The PM in that LBC interview… got us off to a bad start in opposition and I think he's acknowledged that and that's definitely the case.