Pubs will miss out on a real opportunity to get money in the till if ministers do not make a blanket extension for licensing hours.

Harry Kane’s heroics last night means that many England fans are looking forward to an early morning or a late night, depending on one’s perspective, on Monday, and this is a good thing.

Once again the government has been exposed for its failure to fix the broken asylum system left by the Conservatives, which is now teetering on the brink of collapse.