Ed Davey: “Whoever becomes prime minister needs to drop the caution and complacency and show the ambition our country deserves.”

He’s a bully and an unreliable ally.

Burnham needs to reconvene Cobra immediately and set out a proper plan. That plan needs to fully meet this moment, a proper strategy to make the UK climate-ready for this summer and beyond.

Turning to those horrific scenes in Belfast – too many times we see the same pattern, an appalling crime that makes us all feel immense pain and anger, and then extremists who exploit that grief and anger to spread hatred and violence…

The Chancellor had the chance to put this by-election on hold for a few weeks so the people of Clacton could have the full facts about the Farage funding scandal.