Cleverly claims Labour’s ‘rhetoric encouraged people smugglers’ after 700 people cross Channel on Sunday – as it happened

Tory leadership hopeful and former home secretary says government has shown poor early decision making'

Phillip Inman and Graeme Wearden report:

The UK should not be seduced" into thinking the battle to calm inflation is over despite price rises easing to the Bank of England's target, according to an interest rate setter at the central bank.