Portrait of the week | 22 February 2018

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Someone called Jan Sarkocy said that, as a Czech Security Service agent in London under the name Jan Dymic, he met Jeremy Corbyn several times in 1986 and 1987 and gave him money; Mr Corbyn called his account false and warned newspapers that reported such allegations ‘change is coming’. Henry Bolton, 54, was removed as leader of Ukip at a special meeting, and then returned to his girlfriend, 25, whose text messages about black people had caused him trouble. Theresa May, the Prime Minister, launched a year-long review of higher education, but ruled out abolishing tuition fees, which Labour promised to do. Oxfam agreed not to bid for government funding until the Department for International Development was satisfied it could show it met the ‘high standards’ required. Brendan Cox, the husband of the murdered MP Jo Cox, resigned from two charities he set up in her memory after allegations of sexual assault; he denied assaulting a woman at Harvard University in 2015, but admitted ‘inappropriate’ behaviour while working for Save the Children.