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The Budget, still scheduled for 11 March, had to be rewritten after Rishi Sunak was made Chancellor of the Exchequer when Sajid Javid resigned rather than agree to his special advisers being sacked and provision being pooled between No. 10 and No. 11 Downing Street. Questions were asked about how far this was the work of Dominic Cummings, the chief adviser to Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister. In the cabinet shuffle, Julian Smith was replaced as Northern Ireland Secretary by Brandon Lewis. Suella Braverman replaced Geoffrey Cox as Attorney General; she had recently written an article regretting that ‘decisions of an executive, legislative and democratic nature have been assumed by our courts’. Caroline Flack, aged 40, the former presenter of Love Island, a reality show, was found dead, by her own hand, it was thought; she had been facing trial for the assault of her boyfriend. The Earl and Countess of Snowdon are to divorce.
Humberside Police unlawfully interfered with a man’s right to free speech by turning up at his place of work to speak to him about allegedly ‘transphobic’ tweets, the High Court ruled.
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