Summary
That’s all for our live coverage for today. Here’s a summary of the day’s main developments in case you missed them.
- Boris Johnson is set to visit Northern Ireland on Monday amid a political crisis.
- Stormont failed to elect a new speaker after the DUP blocked the process in protest against the Northern Ireland protocol, preventing the devolved assembly from functioning.
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe came face to face with Boris Johnson for the first time since her release in March. He fell short of apologising as she said she had “lived in the shadows” of his wrong comments for over four years.
- The PM signed a deal on security, sustainability and economic prosperity with Norway.
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Tory party co-chair Oliver Dowden denied that his champagne donation to a fundraising auction was intended as a “souvenir of Partygate”.
- Jacob Rees-Mogg was sent out on the morning broadcast rounds, in which he said that Partygate fines were a “non-story”, suggested the EU is trying to punish the UK for Brexit and rejected suggestions that the civil service job cuts represented a return to austerity.
- The Tony Blair Institute published a report with advice for Labour leader Keir Starmer on how to win voters back to Labour, including by rejecting “woke politics” and focusing on the economy.
Michelle O’Neill says the DUP is “denying democracy” and “punishing the public” by refusing to nominate a speaker for the Northern Ireland assembly.
