Labour says HS2 costs almost trebled while Sunak was chief secretary to the Treasury, chancellor and then PM.

Susan Hall, the Conservative candidate for London mayor, has said she did not intend to cause any offence when she liked tweets praising Enoch Powell.

Speaking on her LBC phone-in this morning, she said:

If you’re a serial tweeter, you tend to go through liking all sorts of things. If anybody is offended, then obviously I would apologise.

It really doesn’t bother me at all. Talking at conference to Conservatives isn’t going to get me more votes in London.

Yesterday you wrote about comments made about Suella Braverman’s speech “before we’d seen the text”. I’ve looked at gov.uk since 16:00 yesterday, and haven’t found the text of her speech. Is it available online?

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Source: The Guardian