Eleven MPs are vying to replace Boris Johnson in a contest already condemned for becoming a "poisonous" battle.

It's getting so hot across large parts of Britain that the Met Office has issued an amber warning for extreme heat lasting well into next week, saying there's a potential for serious illness or even danger to life. 

The Conservative MP Jamie Wallis has been found guilty of failing to stop and failing to report a road traffic collision after a late night crash in south Wales in November last year.  

We spoke to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and began by asking him if the tax burden would be higher if Labour won the next general election.

We’re joined by three Tory MPs backing different candidates in the race: George Eustice who's supporting Grant Shapps, Ben Bradley who's backing Kemi Badenoch, and Laura Farris, who's for Rishi Sunak.

We spoke to Andrea Leadsom and began by asking her why she's supporting Penny Mordaunt.

With so many candidates in the mix, you could be forgiven for confusing what they all stand for.

Boris Johnson says he won't be giving his support to any of the 11 candidates in the race to replace him as Tory leader, because he doesn't want to damage anyone's chances. 

It took seven months of Partygate, a disgraced MP, 50 resignations, one sacking, but it did eventually happen.

We spoke to Paul Johnson, the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which studies taxing and spending. We asked if tax cuts are affordable or is Rishi Sunak right that it's a fiscal fairytale.

Former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt became the ninth MP officially to declare her candidacy to be the next Tory leader this morning.

He faces the challenge of turning around a police force which has become mired in crisis - former counter terrorism chief Sir Mark Rowley is to become the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police - less than two weeks after the force was put into ...

We were joined by epidemiologist Professor John Edmunds.

There's been another surge in Covid infections in the UK, with around 2.7 million people now estimated to have the virus - a sharp increase on last week.  

Forest of Dean MP Mark Harper has already declared he'll be supporting Rishi Sunak as Tory leader and he spoke to us.