National insurance increase will be reversed from 6 November, says Kwasi Kwarteng – as it happened

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Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time, a demographic milestone for a state that was designed a century ago to have a permanent Protestant majority, my colleague Rory Carroll reports.

Therese Coffey is deputy prime minister as well as health secretary. Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain this morning, and responding to a question from the former Labour MP Ed Balls, who was presenting, she said that as deputy PM she would be chairing things like the home affairs committee and different elements like that". But she rejected claims this meant she would be doing the health job part time. She said:

I'm conscious that in two weeks we've already pulled together our plan for patients and we will continue to develop that.

I don't think it will be a case of being part-time ... We don't have fixed working hours.