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SCOTTISH people were “only too happy” to see Covid lockdowns extended so they did not have to go to work, Boris Johnson has claimed ...

The Conservative party leadership ballot is a private affair. The MPs don’t have to reveal who they voted for if they don’t want to. And given how badly they appear to have bungled their final round of voting in this contest, it seems unlikely we’ll ever know what really happened.

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

A total of 1,900 titles are being published today, including a Rebus from Ian Rankin, memoir from Miranda Hart and children’s fiction by AF Steadman

Unleashed, the former PM’s account of his days in office, is published today. But the comedy writer Ian Martin has offered his own version of events in Unhinged: A Parody

The ex-PM also raised a glass to Keir Starmer at the launch of Unleashed

News analysis: James Cleverly would almost certainly win a vote for which MP is best to go to the pub with but, despite huge experience in two of the great offices of state, doubts persist over whether he is the right man to lead a fractured Conservative Party

The political logic of the Tories bashing north London looks questionable to say the least

The former prime minister was embroiled in a scandal over the refurbishment of the Downing Street flat

The publicity round for Unleashed – and its author’s need to fend off anything approaching reality – has been exhausting

Boris Johnson said cycling in London left him in a state of ‘quasi-euphoria’ but he was almost wiped out by a bus