John Curtice: Results leave Tories with mountain to climb

In a wide-ranging speech, Ken McCallum also revealed MI5 had responded to 20 plots backed by Iran since 2022.

Employers will start paying part of workers’ furlough wages as the job support scheme is withdrawn.

The president-elect’s nominees for defence secretary, attorney general and health secretary are under heavy scrutiny.

His wife said she issued a statement “primarily out of concern for his mental well-being”.

A rescue operation by the British and French coastguards has rescued more than 50 people, authorities said.