NEW: Rail strikes are to go ahead this week after last-ditch talks with RMT union fail to resolve bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.

Anybody know what waiting lists are like for this procedure at London hospitals?

🚨EXC: Leaked email reveals Ian Blackford promised victim of SNP sex pest he would take 'zero tolerance approach to inappropriate behaviour' mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/p…

Chief Sec Simon Clarke says private/public sectors shouldn't expect inflationary pay rises this year. Real terms cuts all round.

'We can't get into a world where we're chasing inflation expectations in that way. That's the surest way to bake in a repeat of the 1970s'.

With NHS pay offer looming soon (not to mention all the others), Chief Secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke tells Today: “In the current landscape of inflation at 9, bordering 10%, it is not a sustainable expectation that inflation can be matched in pay offers”. 💷❌

🌹If Labour wins Wakefield by-election can the party take back the Red Wall?

Andy Burnham tells our ⁦Aletha Adu⁩ it will mark a 'very big step' on the road, but there's a lot more to be done in the North.

'It's harder than people might realise'. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

💥Lord Geidt clarifies that focus on steel tariffs by PM and others a “distraction”.

“It was simply one example of what might yet constitute deliberate breaches by the U.K. of its obligations under international law, given the Govt’s widely publicised openness to this”.

NEW: Labour sources say Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner’s questionnaires have been returned to Durham Police today.

🏠No-fault evictions and barring tenants on benefits outlawed
🏠private landlords forced to improve damp, dirty and unfit conditions
🏠 plans to tackle bad landlords
Shelter: “The renters reform bill is a game-changer for England’s 11m private renters.” theguardian.com/money/2022/jun…

BREAKING: Home Secretary Priti Patel signs order to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US to face espionage charges. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for August 18, 2050 as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.

NEW Lord Geidt won't be immediately replaced - and the role of ethics advisor could be scrapped altogether. Boris Johnson is 'carefully considering' the future of the role, his spokesman says.

BREAKING: Bank of England raises interest rates by 0.25% to 1.25%, the first time since January 2009 that the rate is higher than 1%.

Reality is this won't shift the dial on how the public view Boris Johnson one jot. The PM's trust ratings are already at rock bottom, according to pollsters.