Ed Davey: “The president was trying to destroy our BBC.”

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.

Clearly this is just the beginning and we will need many more cross-party meetings to find consensus.

With the fifth hottest day on record, and Britain’s fifth heatwave of the year, we’re well past that. Burnham needs to reconvene Cobra immediately and set out a proper plan.

London and Manchester are brilliant cities and engines of innovation for our country, but Avanti Andy is heading for signal failure if he doesn’t rapidly realise there is a Britain that lies beyond the tracks connecting Euston and…