Stephen Simpson, 71, Mary Somerville, 77, and Phillipa Green, 24, pleaded not guilty to criminal damage at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

Former prime minister Liz Truss said the four MPs vying to be Rishi Sunak’s successor have to ‘explain what went wrong’.

Jaideep Barot, the first non-white chairman of an elite independent schools group, has called for greater diversity in educational leadership.

Liz Truss has called it “economic illiteracy” to suggest that Labour having to make cuts and raise taxes is because of her ill-fated mini-budget.