The Guardian – Sunak blocked rebuild of hospitals riddled with crumbling concrete 

The Guardian reports that PM Rishi Sunak blocked plans to rebuild five hospitals with defective concrete three years ago. 

It says “just two of the seven hospital rebuilding projects requested by the Department of Health were signed off by the Treasury at the 2020 spending review”. A government spokesperson told the paper the “claims were untrue” and “the funding was not rejected by the Treasury, or the chancellor and chief secretary at the time”.

It also features the Met Police compensating two women who were arrested at Sarah Everard’s vigil two years ago.