Former Cabinet minister Theresa Villiers, who is backing Rishi Sunak, said that ‘inevitably MPs change their mind during these contests’.

Ms Nandy was photographed meeting striking workers on a picket line in Wigan, her constituency, despite comments made by Sir Keir Starmer.

Health Secretary Steve Barclay spoke about the need to ‘improve care for women and their partners who experienced the tragedy of pregnancy loss’.

Maria Caulfield said the situation was extremely concerning for the months ahead.

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Labour called on the Government to reboot defence plans and halt cuts to the Army.

Nickie Aiken said the proposed legislation aimed to ‘improve the employment rights that people undergoing IVF treatment currently have’.

The Cabinet Office Minister has not set a target for how much remaining EU law on UK statute books would end up being removed or reformed.

Defra minister Lord Benyon told peers in the House of Lords the ‘level of storm overflows into our rivers is totally unacceptable’.

She described as ‘absolute nonsense’ reports that the party leader has discussed the issue with certain members of the shadow cabinet.

Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) claimed that ‘all the people who work in this Parliament were breathing in poisonous air’.

House of Commons leader Mark Spencer insisted the Government ‘does understand the challenges that we face’.

On plans for a second independence referendum, Boris Johnson told MPs: ‘I think there are other subjects in the national conversation right now.’

Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans intervened several times during an Opposition Day debate on standards in public life.

Sir Bernard Jenkin suggested the £20 uplift in Universal Credit ‘should immediately be restored’.

Mel Stride called on Rishi Sunak to give a ‘categoric assurance’ that there are ‘no plans’ to ‘restrain the independence’ of the Bank of England.

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The former First Sea Lord described how he wrote letters to the next of kin, ‘mothers and wives of the chaps who died’.

Resolving the Northern Ireland Protocol ‘has to be our absolute priority’ universities minister Michelle Donelan said.

The sanctions outlined by the International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan and Chancellor Rishi Sunak involve import tariffs and export bans.