One of the reasons Malthouse was predicted to stay is that this would mean a 5th education secretary in just 4 months.

Enormous upheaval at that department - where the options drawn up for spending cuts said to be very difficult

3 minutes from Liz Truss…

*defiant on her vision for a low tax economy - and the National Insurance rise she delivered

*no apology or regret, as says she will stay on the backbenches

*wished Sunak “every success”, as her husband and teenage daughters watched on

Does it … have to be today…

I ‘caught up’ with Penny Mordaunt a few moments ago:

Perhaps an ominous sign for a government hoping for 2 years … front pages of Conservative supporting newspapers, Telegraph and Sun. already pointing out that “not a single vote has been cast”.

How India’s papers are covering it.

NEW from ⁦Office for National Statistics (ONS)⁩ on food inflation - this is how much the lowest priced items have increased over the past few months - some of them by more than 40%

Eric Pickles, former Tory party chairman, tells @skynews the Tories do not need a chief whip who fancies themselves as Francis Urqhart… as there have been “too many of those”

Who can he be thinking of?

Genuine question: what on earth is the point of this morning’s meeting of the cabinet? Other than vanity pictures before new PM reshapes things it seems pointless.

The XXL - if anyone can advise on where to get one of these …

Amusing that named Sunak nomimators, the 'confirmed' Johnson 100, and the Mordaunt 90 add up to more than the number of Tory MPs.

The pound is... rising (again)

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