T20 finals, One Day Cup finals, second in the Championship (and playing Surrey Cricket next week at Taunton). Tantalising September coming up for the mighty Somerset Cricket

Rachel Reeves faces Whitehall revolt over spending cuts on.ft.com/3XjuJuu

New - Whitehall tells the Treasury the cuts have to stop. More pressure on ⁦Rachel Reeves⁩ to raise taxes as a grim spending round begins on.ft.com/3zaDWgM

Keir Starmer is ramping the appointment of New Labour figures into his administration, as he turns to trusted party veterans with experience of navigating Whitehall Dan Corry, former No 10 policy unit chief under Gordon Brown, has been drafted in to lead an internal Defra

New - £22bn black hole latest. Treasury declines to give details of how it came to that number… officials need more time to answer FT FOI request to make sure the data is “accurate”. on.ft.com/3MFwsW2

New - Bank tax warning from City ahead of meeting of bank execs and chancellor as Reeves urges banks to promote growth on.ft.com/3Bd18LO

police and crime minister Dame Diana Johnson had her purse stolen at an annual conference for senior police officers on Tuesday via Ramsay Hodgson ft.com/content/21fd0b…

Just incredible stuff at Taunton today. If Somerset Cricket win the title for the first time, this image will sum it up. T20 finals on Saturday, one day cup final the following weekend…Jacob Rees-Mogg summed it up: “HOW?”

Potentially the title decider, incredible last minute finish, heroic batting by a bloke who arrived at ground on crutches, Michael Vaughan’s 18-year-old son gets 10 wickets… surely at last worth a mention on BBC Radio 4 Today Somerset Cricket ?

Last year we were in the crowd with him and his mates singing Blackbird after the Somerset Cricket T20 victory. This year he kept the treble dream alive - amazing young cricketer

Ed Davey to press Rachel Reeves to raise taxes on banks and wealthy on.ft.com/3XKOUTz

New - Reeves turns up pressure on plan to cut £1bn from consultancy bill - all significant contracts will now have to be signed off by the perm sec and cab minister ft.com/content/edc726…

This charming short play about Harry Beck, the man who invented one of the world's most iconic maps (or diagram, as he preferred to called it) has just opened at the London Transport museum ltmuseum.co.uk/theatre

The end of an era...such a big part of the city's daily life. Good luck to the The Standard in its new guise

New - Robert Jenrick tells the Financial Times that Tory HQ risks "dumbing down" leadership contest and being "disrespectful" to members at Tory conference. Plus says OBR and Treasury "gaslighted" public on mass migration. Lucy Fisher and me ft.com/content/5d2685…

After the row over Starmer's freebies, Reform UK's Rupert Lowe MP feels the heat from fellow (not-so-well-off) MPs over his decision to give his net charity to local good causes, inc Great Yarmouth Town's tea room ft.com/content/152413…

Britain and Germany are failing differently on.ft.com/3MQTjyf | opinion

UK ‘industrial strategy’ in bid for global funds - SPOT ON - a must read ⁦Financial Times piece with ⁦Jonathan Reynolds⁩ on.ft.com/3TyEO5O

New - ⁦Jonathan Reynolds⁩ to launch UK industrial strategy (last spotted in 2021 when it was binned by Sunak) He’s “sick” of Britain being beaten by Macron and other “hungrier” countries. With ⁦Jim Pickard 🐋⁩ and ⁦Michael O'Dwyer⁩ on.ft.com/4enXb5G

The official "story" from the Reeves speech was £7m for school breakfast clubs...the real one was her opening the door for billions more capital spending (and poss relaxation of fiscal rules to allow it) With Sam Fleming (FT) Jim Pickard 🐋 and @AnnaShieGross ft.com/content/a40c32…