UK's Sunak makes pre-election pitch in first King's Speech since 1951

The Downing Street diary has an enormous red ring circled around Wednesday morning when the Office for National Statistics releases its monthly inflation data.

It's mid-May, we have just completed the local and mayoral election races and the Prime Minister, to all intents and purposes seems to be going for an election..

Former prime minister Theresa May has poked fun at her successors in Number 10, while issuing a warning to them to avoid delving into populist politics.

Rishi Sunak said he will "of course" stay on as an MP if he loses the next general election.