Chris Wormald forced out of post as cabinet secretary, No 10 confirms – as it happened

Chris Wormald in 2023. Photograph: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

6.00pm GMT

Early evening summary

• Keir Starmer has forced out his cabinet secretary, Chris Wormald, with Antonia Romeo likely to succeed him and become the first woman in the job.

• The Monaco-based billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has said he is sorry his “choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe” after a fierce backlash over his comments that the UK was being “colonised” by immigrants.

• Primary school-age children who question their gender could be allowed to use different pronouns under long-awaited government guidance to schools on the subject.

• Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, has referred the Telegraph’s proposed sale to the publisher of the Daily Mail to the competition and media watchdogs, weeks after she raised concerns about the consolidation of rightwing newspapers.

For a full list of all the stories covered on the blog today, do scroll through the list of key event headlines near the top of the blog.

5.45pm GMT

Badenoch says Wormald is 'latest person Starmer has thrown under bus to save his skin'

Kemi Badenoch says Chris Wormald has become “the latest person Keir Starmer has thrown under the bus to save his own skin”.