BREAKING - Amber de Botton is the new Downing Street Director of Communications.

Superb photoshoot of Lindsay Hoyle inspecting Big Ben, ahead of the clocks going back this weekend.

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Downing Street also says Rishi Sunak's video is 'stock music' and is not Gary Glitter.

Another normal morning.

The cover image of the Harry book looks like a scientific reconstruction of the face of a neolithic hunter found remarkably well preserved in a peat bog

Sunak should get the Braverman/MI5 situation sorted 'very, very quickly', says ex-Cabinet minister Stephen Crabb

“You never ever want to see intelligence sources being quoted in relation to concerns about ministers,' he tells the PoliticsHome podcast

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For balance, my friend…The Prime Minister is WRONG not to go to COP. Global warming is the biggest crisis facing our planet and net zero creates many 1000s of jobs which is good for the economy. COP in Glasgow was most successful ever… but don’t expect media to report that

New episode of The Rundown out now - features a great chat with Stephen Crabb about Rishi Sunak’s first Cabinet, his relief that Boris Johnson pulled out of the contest, and the challenges that still face the Tories PoliticsHome Eleanor Langford Adam Payne podfollow.com/politicshome/e…

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Sunak should get the Braverman/MI5 situation sorted 'very, very quickly', says ex-Cabinet minister Stephen Crabb

“You never ever want to see intelligence sources being quoted in relation to concerns about ministers,' he tells the PoliticsHome podcast

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Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting speaking at a lunch with reporters: “In the Labour Party, the cranks have been kicked out or left. In the Conservative party, the cranks are sat around the Cabinet table.”

MI5 need to have confidence in the Home Secretary - whoever that might be. It’s a vital relationship of trust, key to the UK’s security & democratic oversight of MI5. Any breakdown in that relationship is bad for the Security Service and the government. It needs to be sorted asap

'From my own knowledge, there were multiple breaches of the ministerial code.'

Sacked Conservatives chairman Jake Berry addresses Home Secretary Suella Braverman's alleged security breach.

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Some inside beltway news: the Tories’ political director Ross Kempsell resigned amid the change of government

Kempsell (former journalist) was the party’s head of attack and a key strategist for Boris Johnson during tricky moments, his work was much valued by senior Tories.

Spotted walking past the cameras earlier: Jack Sellers - right hand man to new Chief Whip Simon Hart who did a spell in no10 working on the Union. Looks like he’s joining Sunak’s Downing St

Little noted yesterday. Sunak has put a close friend in politics - Robert Jenrick - in the immigration brief below Braverman. One PM ally says it’s “to keep Suella in check”.

.Yvette Cooper was pretty scathing about Suella Braverman in the Commons earlier

“The Home Secretary has access to the most sensitive information of all relating to our national security. We cannot have someone careless and slapdash in that job.”

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The Union brief is heading back to DLUHC with Gove after a few weeks in the Cabinet Office, I understand

Huge day for returns: Braverman’s contentious Home Office comeback, Raab to Justice, Barclay to Health, Gove to Levelling Up. It doesn’t exactly scream fresh start, currently