Gary Gibbon , Political Editor

The Labour government’s first budget certainly had an element of shock and awe, with the sheer scale of the numbers.

The Prime Minister has warned of a “long and difficult path” to change Britain, using a speech in Birmingham to prepare the ground for a string of tax hikes to come in Wednesday’s budget.

Commonwealth leaders gathering for their heads of government meeting in Samoa have called on the Prime Minister to begin discussions on compensation for Britain’s historic role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Donald Trump has lodged a complaint after his team picked up a social media post by the Labour party appealing for volunteers to travel to America to help the Democrat campaign.

Only yesterday Conservative MPs put James Cleverly in first place in the third round of the Tory leadership contest, but today they knocked him out of the race.

Conservative MPs have knocked Tom Tugendhat out of the party leadership race. The former Home Secretary James Cleverly is now in the lead, having overtaken his rivals Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch.

Sir Keir Starmer’s new team has started work in Downing Street after yesterday’s sudden departure of his chief of staff Sue Gray. A cabinet minister admitted that the senior civil servant had become a “lightning conductor for criticism” of the Government. 

The Prime Minister has paid back more than six thousand pounds for gifts he’s received since taking office – in a bid to curb the row over accepting freebies.

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has told the Tory party conference they would have done much better in the election if she had still been Conservative leader. 

Rishi Sunak has been addressing Conservative Party members in a short speech on the first day of the Tory conference in Birmingham.

Sir Keir Starmer will set out his approach to the crisis in Lebanon and other conflicts around the world when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York later.

At the UN in midtown Manhattan, the US and France are reported to be leading a new diplomatic effort to end hostilities in both Gaza and Lebanon. 

Our political editor Garry Gibbon is travelling to the UN General Assembly in New York with the prime minister. He gave us his assessment of the prime minister’s speech.

At the Labour Party Conference, Chancellor Rachel Reeves struck a more positive tone about the economy after weeks of doom-laden warnings.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner became the latest to defend the right of politicians to accept hospitality and donations but said she could understand why people are ‘angry’.