The PM and ministers are weighing the deployment of the Royal Navy to safeguard essential fuel supplies to a key steel site, following an emergency parliamentary vote granting powers to temporarily take over the troubled plant.

Starmer is set to acknowledge that the push for globalised markets has faltered, prompting calls for revised growth strategies and more robust trade regulations as tariff tensions mount.

Authorities forced entry into a Quaker meeting house and detained six campaigners under suspicion of planned disruptive behaviour, prompting debate over the scale and manner of the operation.

Individuals enrolling purely to gain access to borrowed funds have sparked alarm over potential large-scale misuse, prompting renewed scrutiny of financial regulations and calls for the PM’s government to take decisive action.