“He wants to hammer home the point that he wasn't a hopeless prime minister.” Rishi Sunak's attempt to save his legacy at PMQs is unlikely to break through to the average voter, says Tim Shipman on #TimesRadio.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn questions prime minister Keir Starmer over Grenfell from the independent benches.

"Who decides whether or not we've complied with international law?" Keir Starmer is labelling the attorney general’s decision to ban some weapons to Israel as a legal matter, but Tim Shipman says the decision was inevitable with the appointment of Richard Hermer.

This viscountess is launching an appeal to find out who strangled her pet duck, fondly known as Quackers. She says a gardener looked on as a dog rung her duck’s neck, proceeding to toss its body away before disappearing.

"It wasn't exactly fizzing in the room for the announcements." The Tory party is electing a new leader with depleted numbers of "enthusiastic" members, says Times Radio's Kate McCann.

"We have to change really quite decisively." The Conservatives "lost voters to Reform" over the issue of migration, so need to fundamentally change "to recover", says Conservative MP & Supporter of Robert Jenrick, Neil O'Brien.

“Trump doesn’t have that many true believers, I would say his hardcore faction is actually less than half of the party.” Most Republicans are politically oriented towards Reaganism but would face “severe consequences” if they crossed Donald Trump, says Geoffrey Kabaservice.

“We've got to speed up the remediation because it's terrifying for people to be in these high-rise blocks.” Angela Rayner tells Stig Abell  she's "not happy" with the pace of cladding remediation but stopped short of setting a hard deadline.

“I try to be a good boss.” But the culture of Westminster is “not ideal” for a work-life balance for her staff admits Angela Rayner, despite her plan for legislation to enact a “cultural shift” for workers. Stig Abell | @RosieWright99 | #TimesRadio

“We have a country where inertia rules.” Stig Abell, Flic Everett, and A.N. Wilson try to get to the bottom of why “everything just seems to get stuck” in government processes.

🗣️ "Unless you can give Gaza a future, it's very hard for me to see how you can give the two state solution a future" 🎧 Listen now to The Story podcast where William Hague interviews former Prime Minister Tony Blair @institutegc ⬇️ pod.fo/e/265d50

"Walz wants to see more gun control but still has to make sure people knew he hunted." Harris and Walz will have to "tread a careful line" when reacting to the Georgia school shooting, or they face "political suicide", says The Times's Alistair Dawber.

"If Keir Starmer is politically clever they can really use this as a moment." Starmer has the opportunity to make some "significant changes" to business regulation, but he needs to put money into a "tough regulator" to make these big changes, says Times Radio's Kate McCann.

"The amount of interference they're doing in this presidential election is literally exponentially greater." @BillBrowder says Putin's efforts to influence the upcoming US presidential election are "ten times greater" than in 2016. @JPonPolitics

“Reducing defence spending feels at odds with the way of the world right now.” The larger the defence budget the less you have to make “trade offs” between upgrading and maintaining equipment, says former minister for armed forces James Heappey. 🎧 shorturl.at/AvBeL