New Treasury figures have revealed that the UK made a net payment of roughly £156m a week to the European Union in 2016/17, the lowest level for five years.

Treasury figures suggest the UK’s net contribution to the EU budget for the 12 months to March 2017 was £8.1bn, or around £156m a week.

Today, the Government announced their draft Data Protection bill – which includes a raft of measures that will improve all our privacy online.

“We haven’t put forward a lot because, as we know, there are differences within the cabinet about the sort of Brexit that we are heading for and until those differences are further resolved I think it’s very difficult for us to have a clear position.”

Sir Simon Fraser, the Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office until 2015

Today’s calls by Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, for the government to come up with a “Brexit fallback” if negotiations with the EU27 end with no deal should be a wake-up call to this Conservative Brexit Government.

According to reports today several councils are now petitioning the Government for financial help to address fire safety issues following the Grenfell Tower tragedy.