Conservatives pledge £10bn 'Britannia Shield' to intercept missiles
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Kemi Badenoch and the Conservative party have promised to spend £10 billion on a 'Britannia Shield' air defence system. The pitch assumes that the UK is not currently prepared for a missile attack and that voters are ready to fund a project of this scale from the opposition benches.
Jeffrey Archer, the best-selling novelist whose career in the Conservative party was as dramatic as his fiction, has died aged 86. Elsewhere in the capital, the London Stock Exchange is watching more of its major names, including Boots and the RAC, choose to list their shares on other exchanges.
In Hampshire, the town of Gosport is asking the government to pay for a clean-up operation following protests over the arrival of asylum seekers. MPs are also demanding an investigation into the death of a whistleblower linked to Lutnick-Epstein, a case that continues to generate more questions than answers.