Downing Street has told private companies to “take heed” of soaring inflation and exercise pay restraint as it warned the country must "avoid doing anything that would stoke inflationary pressures further”.
Tory MPs will wait until the "partygate" probe has concluded and the British public have delivered their "verdict" at next month's local elections before making a "decisive judgement" on Boris Johnson's future, according to a senior Conservative backbencher.