When police used tear gas amid chaotic scenes outside the Champions League final in Paris in May, the French authorities were quick to blame Liverpool supporters. 

Rail workers are to stage another strike in their bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, threatening travel chaos at the height of the summer holidays.

After months of economic gloom and doom, there was some good news today: the economy grew by 0.5 per cent in May - much stronger than expected.

We were joined by Rishi Sunak backer Laura Farris, Kemi Badenoch supporter Ben Bradley and Alberto Costa, who is on team Penny Mordaunt.

Last time there was a leadership election in the summer 2019, Jeremy Hunt was foreign secretary and he came second. Today, he fell at the first round of voting by failing to clear the 30-vote hurdle. 

The Channel 4 Debate - Friday 15th July - 7:30-9pm

With Fatima is Henri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and Sinead Cregan, director of development and innovation at Inspire North.

The candidates in the Tory leadership race have been busy attacking each other - with much of the debate so far focusing on issues like tax cuts and identity politics. 

More than 1,000 girls in Telford were abused over a period of three decades - while the authorities ignored obvious evidence of child sex crimes, an inquiry has found. 

The poll which we featured earlier also asked Conservative members about levelling-up. 

We’re joined by two Tory MPs - Maria Miller, who's supporting Penny Mordaunt's campaign, and Alun Cairns - who's backing Rishi Sunak.

Eight candidates have made it through to the first stage of the Tory leadership contest - actually getting onto the ballot.

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.