In one of his first major sit-down interviews since Labour's landslide election win, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that his government is "going to have to be unpopular" to get the country under control.
Only four-in-ten motorists would support enforcing a blanket ban across the UK for pavement parking despite the new Labour government possibly imposing a ban soon.
Dame Priti Patel has been eliminated in the first voting round of the Conservative leadership contest after receiving the least number of votes, while Robert Jenrick came top of the ballot.
Kemi Badenoch is currently the bookmakers' favourite to win the Tory leadership bid and launched her bid at the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London.
A social media post by a Conservative has been branded as "repugnant" by the Board of Deputies of British Jews for likening the Labour government's proposed smoking ban to the Holocaust.