Khan dismisses Sunak’s attack on his housebuilding record in London as ‘desperate nonsense’ – as it happened

Mayor of London hits back at prime minister over pathetic gesture politics'

Rishi Sunak has failed to give his full backing to Sir Howard Davies, chairman of NatWest, in interviews this morning, PA Media reports.

PA says that Sunak did not back calls for the resignation of Davies in a pooled interview this morning - but also that Sunak would not say whether he had confidence in him.

What I said right at the start of this was that it wasn't right for people to be deprived of basic services because of banking, because of their views.

This isn't about any one individual, it's about values - do you believe in free speech and not to be discriminated against because of your legally held views?

As a result of this policy, a dozen classrooms of children, including some of the most traumatised and vulnerable children in the world, have gone missing and, sickeningly for us, 50 children are still missing from the hotel used in Brighton and Hove.

Importantly the high court also makes clear that the home secretary already has the power to require local authorities across the country to take children into foster care via a statutory rota system called the national transfer scheme.