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Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said he did not think Britain was in a crisis; he wanted it to move towards ‘a high-wage, high-skill, high-productivity economy’ that was not addicted to cheap foreign labour. Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, told the Conservative party conference in Manchester that he had committed £500 million to renew job-support schemes, now that furlough and the £20 a week universal credit bonus had ended. Of the unemployed, he told Sky News: ‘We are throwing literally the kitchen sink at helping them.’ A group of people in the street shouted ‘Tory scum’ at Sir Iain Duncan Smith and hit him with a traffic cone; there were five arrests. Sir John Chilcot, who headed the inquiry into the invasion of Iraq in 2003, died aged 82.

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About 200 servicemen and women from the army and RAF were detailed to drive tankers from depots to petrol stations, one in five of which in London and the south-east were dry, according to the Petrol Retailers Association.