Here is 's sketch of Kemi Badenoch's speech and Q&A with journalists this morning.

And this is how it starts.

HMS Wellington. A decommissioned Grimsby-class sloop from the second world war. A warship that has been moored on the Thames, going nowhere for the best part of 80 years. Today's venue for the leader of the opposition to explain why the Conservative party hollowed out defence spending throughout their time in office. Sorry. Scrub that. To welcome in a brave new world order. Come aboard the good ship Badenoch. There are times when you wonder if the Tory media team have been infiltrated by Labour HQ. Still, we might as well enjoy it while we can.

has accused critics of his proposed new trade deal with the EU of "misreading the public mood".

As the Guardian reports, a deal to remove Brexit checks on imports and exports of food and animal products has now been agreed. At a summit in Brussels later this month, the EU and the UK will also be discussing deals covering emissions trading and youth mobility.

Speaking to reporters this morning, said she could not say whether or not she would back the deal covering food products because she had not seen the detail. (See 10.38am.) And she said she was not opposed to a renegotiation per se, because she thought the EU-UK trade relationship needed "constant negotiating".

But she also said she thought any proposal from Burnham was likely "to make things worse, not better", and she said dynamic alignment with the EU on regulation was a "red line" that would be unacceptable to the Tories. As the Guardian report says, the deal that has been agreed does require dynamic alignment on sanitary and phytosanitary regulation.

Burnham said that the Treasury had confirmed in recent days that agreements under negotiation ahead of a summit later this month could raise GDP by 0.4% – up from the previous estimate of 0.3%.

And, in an interview with The Economist, he also hit back at Badenoch for criticising his attempts to forge a new relationship with the EU. He said:

I think it's interesting because I sense, since conference, that there is an appetite to discuss it. And those who are making the argument over 'Oh my goodness, don't open up this psychodrama' are misreading the public mood in my view.

Referring to the economic benefits of the deal being discussed at the summit later this month, he said:

A deal could add up to 0.4% to GDP. Now, that is a number that you cannot ignore.

The British and Australian governments have backed a joint agreement at the Commonwealth summit on working together to tackle threats directed at parliamentarians, especially women. Here is an extract.

We commit to working together with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, with the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians, and with countries from across the Commonwealth to bring together technology, expertise and practical solutions to help protect parliamentarians from online abuse and support democratic participation across the Commonwealth. We'll hold the first forum in 2027 and will engage all those in the Commonwealth who share these values.

There are a range of software tools that are being trialled in our parliaments and around the world, and we welcome and encourage this innovation.

While we work to change attitudes, restore respectful debate and return people's choice, in the short term we can commit to take steps together to protect our democracies.

MSPs at Holyrood have called on Scottish ministers to review a law which allowed the Indian-born student Q Manivannan to win a seat at Holyrood in May, claiming public confidence in parliament was "fragile".

The said in a report that the rationale for allowing people with limited rights to be in the UK was "simply not clear" and had "run ahead of what the public want".

Under the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025, overseas citizens with the legal right to live in Scotland can stand for Holyrood and local councils, even if their rights are temporary.

There was an outcry led by the Conservatives and Reform UK in May when Manivannan was elected as a Scottish Greens list MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East. A successful PhD candidate at St Andrews, it emerged their student visa was due to expire at the end of 2026. They have since been granted a three-year graduate visa, giving them right to remain until the end of 2029.

, the Scottish National party MSP who chairs the committee, and who voted in favour of the reforms last year, said public sentiment appears to have swung against the policy. She said:

It is vital that Scotland has elected representatives who look like the communities they represent. This diversity helps build trust in our elected institutions.

But we know that this trust is fragile, and so careful consideration needs to be given to all electoral reform that comes before us.

Reform UK was delighted by the committee's recommendation, which follows proposals by ministers to extend the right to Commonwealth citizens, but the Scottish Greens said it was regressive. The said:

There are thousands of people with limited leave to remain who live and work in Scotland and have made a home here, including Commonwealth citizens. They should be able to stand for our parliament and councils.

MSPs backed this change unanimously at the time, including the convenor and deputy convenor of the committee. It would be a regrettable backwards step for representation and democracy if Scotland was to roll back on this commitment.

has said that he cares less about what the newspapers say about him than previous prime ministers did.

In one of his interviews with Daniel Hewitt for the ITV documentary being shown tonight about his first 100 days in office, Burnham was asked if he cared less about what papers like the Daily Mail and the Sun said about him than some of his predecessors did. Burnham replied: "Definitely."

He said:

I left Westminster for a reason. I got fed up with commentators deciding things down there and then the whole world [being] meant to believe what they believe. Well, sorry, the world's not like that anymore.

Burnham also defended prioritising social media more instead. He said:

People want more involvement, more understanding of the way politics is being done and that's what I'm bringing. And hopefully it connects with people, particularly younger people, who may have felt quite distant from politics.

In another interview for the programme, Burnham rejected the suggestion that he was ruthless. Explaining why he did not like the description, he said:

Determined, I definitely would say that [I am] determined. I will come back and back and back at something. I've always been like that. Ruthless to me says you just have a disregard for everybody else. And that wouldn't be me. But I am determined.

Burnham also revealed that, since becoming PM, he continues to go running regularly – and that this is often when his "best thoughts" occur. He explained:

If you're asking me about what's the thing that makes it work, I go running and I've not stopped my running. It's when my mind goes a bit into neutral. And I feel then I get my best thoughts in those moments.

You know, all of a sudden, "Oh, that, yeah, I'll do that.' Or a particularly intractable problem that you've been thinking and worrying about – all of a sudden, I've been out on a run sometimes, and you just think, 'Ah, that's the way I'll go into that one.'

Reform UK's leader on Hampshire county council has been charged with 12 counts of rape and one of distributing indecent images of a child, reports.

ended his speech urging Commonwealth leaders to "recommit … to a Commonwealth in which our young people can look to the future with greater confidence and purpose".

said he was glad climate proposals were being considered at Chogm.

Here in the Caribbean, as in so many parts of our Commonwealth, climate change is not some distant prospect. It is an alarming reality.

As we know, large ocean states have contributed little to the causes of climate change, and yet they are among those bearing the greatest cost.

Nature herself is an essential form of capital that sustains our prosperity and well-being. And yet we have persisted for too long to live off nature's capital, rather than her income.

To restore nature is therefore not to choose our environment over our economy. It is to invest in the very foundations of our economy, not to mention our security.

said Commonwealth values have never been more important.

What unites this extraordinary and unique group of countries even more deeply is our values of democracy and the rule of law, of respect, equal dignity and human rights, of sustainable development, of peace and security. These values have never been more important, contested as they are on so many fronts, and they guide us to action.