Wes Streeting says junior doctors are on strike is because ‘they don’t have someone to negotiate with’

Good morning. Rishi Sunak faces PMQs today. Among the many problems in his in-tray are another strike by junior doctors starting this morning, rising mortgage rates and Nick Macpherson, a former Treasury permanent secretary, warning that the election due next year could coincide with the economy going into recession.

But, Westminster being Westminster, much of the focus at PMQs may end up being on what has been described as the Boris Johnson “clown show” (now on day six of its run). Here is Aubrey Allegretti’s overnight update on where we were on that last night.

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