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Theresa May, the Prime Minister, invited the media to take a photograph of her beginning a holiday with her husband Philip at Lake Garda before pressing on to Switzerland for some walking. David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, resisted demands by Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament Brexit negotiator, that the European Court of Justice should retain jurisdiction over EU migrants in Britain. BMW said a fully electric Mini is to be built at Cowley in Oxford, with motors made in Germany and shipped over for assembly. The government announced plans to ban new diesel and petrol cars and vans from 2040. The number of people over 90 with a driving licence reached 100,000. High street banks risked entering ‘a spiral of complacency’, said Alex Brazier, the Bank of England’s financial stability director, with personal loans rising much faster than incomes.
The number of crimes recorded by the police rose by 10 per cent in the year up to March 2017, with a rise in violent crime of 18 per cent and in robbery of 16 per cent; but the Crime Survey of England and Wales, based on people’s experiences of crime, showed a 7 per cent fall.
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