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Police are continuing to question a man on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving after a vehicle drove into the gates of Downing Street on Thursday afternoon.

A select committee report also highlights evidence that Wales is facing a significant shortfall from funds replacing EU ones

PM said to be considering emails sent to Cabinet Office’s ethics team about home secretary’s request for help

Permanent secretary told about alleged request in autumn, say sources, as home secretary fails to calm Tory nerves in Commons

The Labour leader said the Home Secretary’s actions appear to have been ‘inappropriate’

Sir Philip Rycroft said the home secretary’s actions would have put civil servants ‘in an impossible position’

The PM is treading the perilous path of indulging Suella Braverman and her allies on the Conservative hard right, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.…

Other lives: Senior civil servant whose work behind the scenes led to the licensing of bedsits and introduction of leasehold reform