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After a 32% hike in reported shoplifting offences, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a crackdown on serial shoplifters and abusive customers.

The rebels believe they have a majority in cabinet to support their view.

Rishi Sunak may have rendered them uncool this week, but the trainer has risen to ubiquity in the past few years. So what is it about this fairly simple design that is so widely loved?

Party hopes to take mayoralty from Tories but incumbent Ben Houchen is still popular with voters, defying national mood

Hotels no longer needed as claimants moved to disused RAF bases and other sites

Rishi Sunak has said sorry. This recantation didn't quite match the magnitude of Keith Joseph's 1974 apology for the Conservatives Party's role in the post-war consensus or Tony Blair's expression of regret over Britain's role during the Irish potato famine. But it is parliamentary recess and the pickings are slim.

But Labour slams the plan as too little, too late amid an epidemic of retail crime

Prime minister defends his fondness for the shoe, while critics and social media users say he has ruined it for everyone

PM says he still plans to call election ‘in the second half of this year’

Sir Anthony Hooper tells inquiry: ‘We’ve had many miscarriages of justice, but nowhere near as many as these’

The criticism of David Cameron among Tory MPs shows how far the party has moved from its long-held Arabist tradition, writes the Spectator’s political editor, Katy Balls