Politics

Conservative leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat has called Elon Musk’s claim civil war was inevitable in the UK “delusional”. In his first major speech since declaring his bid for the Conservative leadership, the former security minister hit out at the billionaire X owner who has been criticising Sir Keir Starmer’s response to the week of riots
An emergency ban on puberty blockers introduced by the Conservative government was lawful, the High Court has ruled. Campaign group TransActual, and a young person who cannot be named, had challenged then health secretary Victoria Atkins’s decision to impose “banning orders” on puberty blockers, which delay puberty by suppressing the natural production of sex hormones.
Baroness Eluned Morgan has been nominated as Wales’ first female first minister. The 57-year-old has a political career spanning three decades. In that time, she’s served as an MEP, shadow minister in the House of Lords and has held several positions within the Welsh government. She unsuccessfully stood for the Welsh Labour leadership in 2018,
King Charles has delivered the new Labour government’s first King’s Speech setting out its priorities for the months ahead.   On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson looks at what the government has promised with Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates and economics editor Ed Conway. Plus, Niall speaks to people and politics correspondent Nick