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Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said she had found a £21.9 billion hole, and a black one at that, ‘covered up’ by the Tories in the finances Labour inherited. ‘The biggest single cause of the £22 billion fiscal hole was Reeves’s decision to give inflation-busting pay rises to public sector workers,’ the Financial Times reported. Junior doctors were offered an average rise of 22 per cent over two years. The Chancellor told the Commons that the government was cancelling: the universal winter fuel payment; the cap on the amount people must spend on funding their social care; A-level reforms; and a tunnel near Stonehenge. Jeremy Hunt, the former chancellor, noted that estimates had been ‘signed off by senior civil servant accounting officers’. Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, announced central powers to impose housing. The High Court ruled that a ban on puberty blockers introduced by the previous government was lawful. Kemi Badenoch, Dame Priti Patel, Mel Stride, Robert Jenrick, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly were nominated as candidates for the leadership of the Conservative party.
A 17-year-old youth, the son of a couple from Rwanda, was arrested after three children were stabbed to death and ten wounded at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class at Southport, Lancashire. Police blamed the English Defence League for violence outside a mosque after a false rumour of a Syrian connection. A police van was set on fire and bottles and bricks thrown at police, injuring 39. Footage acquired by the Manchester Evening News of a fast-moving fight at Manchester airport on 23 July put a new complexion on a shorter video of a policeman kicking a man’s head.
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