Portrait of the week: BBC presenter scandal, EasyJet cancellations and a baby boy for Boris

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The government pondered whether to accept pay-review bodies’ recommendations on rises in public sector salaries. ‘Delivering sound money is our number one focus,’ Jeremy Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in his Mansion House speech. ‘That means taking responsible decisions on public finances, including public sector pay.’ Regular pay in the March to May period was 7.3 per cent higher than a year earlier, although it rose less than inflation. Unemployment rose from 3.8 per cent to 4 per cent; vacancies fell by 85,000 to 1,034,000. The average two-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6.7 per cent. Jeremy Hunt confirmed that he was refused a bank account with Monzo last year on the grounds that he was a ‘politically exposed person’. Two eight-year-old girls died after a Land Rover crashed into the Study preparatory school, Wimbledon. A teacher was stabbed at Tewkesbury Academy. The Commons rejected Lords amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill. Marius Draghici, 50, from Romania, admitted 39 counts of manslaughter over Vietnamese migrants who died in a lorry container in 2019; he was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison.