Advent International will buy a 70 stake in Reckitt’s essential home business, which also includes brands such as Air Wick.

Exchequer secretary to the Treasury James Murray said it was ‘absolutely not the case’ that Number 10 had wanted Ms Abbott to out of the party.

A bright, optimistic and yellow-lettered question that, without you even knowing it yet, will shape your entire city break. Directly on the mountainside, it reads: ‘Bergen?’. I learned later that this ...