Good morning, and welcome to the second First Edition. (We’ll stop counting now, but please do keep sending your incredibly helpful feedback by hitting reply.)
I spent quite a lot of yesterday and this morning trying to think of a more colossally fatuous charge an MP could face than the claim Angela Rayner deployed a “Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris” in parliament, and, nope, can’t do it. So at least it was pioneering. As Gaby Hinsliff wrote in her column: “This is probably going to shock a lot of people, but Angela Rayner has legs. What’s more… sometimes you can see them”.
