Almost every English region receives more in benefits handouts than it brings in in personal tax, new analysis reveals

🔮 Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said the public needed to think about what they would do if a natural disaster struck, if hackers attacked businesses or terrorists disrupted supply chains.

🔮 The move was praised as principled and could spark turmoil in councils up and down the country when the deadline passes this Thursday.

🔮 Mrs Badenoch's main themes were: Defiance for the future and Tory turncoats The Conservative leader warned there was a 'fight coming' that would be a 'battle for the soul of the nation' at the next election.

🔮 The figures also prompted backlash from top Tory Sir James Cleverly, who is running to be London mayor, as he said it was further proof that the Labour government is using the nation's capital as a 'cash cow'.

🔮 Kemi Badenoch's right-hand man suggested yesterday that the Tories will look at cutting tobacco duty.

🔮 Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, who was appointed nature minister in July, told a fringe meeting at the party's conference that she fears the far-Right will launch a battle at the next election using this supposed fantasy.

🔮 You could either write something we can include or we could add something at the end like, 'We need social homes.

🔮 Because whatever Burnham's differences with Sir Keir, both leaders have one thing in common: They are carrying a Ming vase across a slippery path, where one stumble could spell disaster.

🔮 Diversity training seen by The Mail on Sunday reveals the party's efforts to crack down on jokes between friends, even when those being mocked are 'absolutely fine'. Members were also instructed to audit the race of their closest friends and create more diverse social groups to tackle so-called 'affinity bias'. Green activists received the training this summer, delivered by a party official who suggested that in the event of overhearing a joke they feel uncomfortable with, they should document 'what happened, including dates, times, locations' to ensure there was a record of the incident. This could then be passed on to party officials to be used in the event of a complaint, though they were told this detailed note-taking 'shouldn't replace immediate action'. The DEI training used an example of one Green activist entering a meeting, and seeing people making 'derogatory jokes' about the nationality of a Polish person also in the room. They said: 'We see that everyone's laughing, including the person who the jokes are about.

🔮 The very public rows threaten to overshadow what Mr Burnham had planned would be a triumphant party conference, which gets under way in Liverpool on Sunday.