Donald Trump has praised “brave” King Charles for pressing ahead with his visit to the US today, despite a gunman attempting to assassinate the president and other top officials at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night. The King and Queen’s four-day trip will continue with slight adjustments, while the 31-year-old suspect is expected in court today. HMRC is reportedly weeks away from concluding its investigation into Angela Rayner’s failure to pay correct stamp duty, potentially paving the way for her return to frontline politics. Labour sources claim the former deputy leader is eyeing up a pact with soft-left rival Andy Burnham, in which the Manchester mayor would return to parliament and replace Keir Starmer. Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe smashed the marathon world record in London yesterday, becoming the first to run a sub-two-hour time in official race conditions. The 31-year-old crossed the line in a crisp one hour 59 minutes and 30 seconds, followed by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha, who also broke the two-hour mark.

You often hear, says Jenni Russell in The Times, that Labour are “hopelessly ineffective” because their prime minister is a “dithering inadequate” whose useless ministers have “failed on every objective”. The truth is worse: Keir Starmer’s profound political weakness has created a vacuum, which is being filled by “zealous barons driving radical change”. Take Rachel Reeves, who cannot deliver improved living standards, but has been given free rein to hammer small businesses with a range of higher taxes. Hiking the minimum wage has ramped up youth unemployment – currently 16.1% – and created ferocious competition for the few remaining jobs. A graduate I know just beat 381 other applicants for a minimum wage role in a bookshop. Meanwhile a three-child family on average benefits takes home as much as a working family earning £71,000.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is adding to an already massively over-burdened system with her ideological obsession with “inclusion”. In practice this means forcing schools to keep problem children on site, no matter the harm to their peers; reversing the “Blair and Gove revolution” by curbing academies’ freedoms and tightening state control; and devastating the independent sector with VAT (Labour said 3,000 kids would leave private schools; by last autumn the figure was already 25,000). The most “driven and confident” of Labour’s ideological barons is Ed Miliband, whose plan to make Britain a world leader in clean energy turns out to mean plastering the countryside with ugly wind turbines and solar panels, and raising all our energy prices. What’s really worrying is that Labour still has three years left in power, and whoever replaces Starmer is likely to come from the left. “There is more destructive radicalism to come.”