Sue Gray asked for and was given a salary of £170,000 - £3,000 more than the PM and more than any cabinet minister – or her Conservative predecessor

Keir Starmer should be walking into his first Labour conference as UK prime minister this weekend against a backdrop of party unity after delivering one of the biggest Tory defeats in election history.

Born Free Co-Founders Dame Virginia McKenna DBE and Will Travers OBE have sent an open letter to the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, laying out in clear terms the action his government must take to improve the lives of wild animals and protect nature, in the UK and around the world.

BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent Gareth Gordon spoke to Mark.

The PM is known to be keen on a freebie - whether it’s Arsenal tickets or expensive specs. Having accepted over £50,000 in donations in the last year alone from Labour peer Lord Alli, including clothes for his wife which he failed to properly declare,

Sir Keir Starmer is in a "pressure" job and should be allowed to enjoy gifts and hospitality if it is declared correctly, a cabinet minister has told Sky News. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said anyone who is a prime minister "spends pretty much every bit of their waking life working on it" and if they are able to do something important to them "I don't think that's a problem".

She is paid more than the Prime Minister - but who is Keir Starmer's top aide Sue Gray? BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent Gareth Gordon spoke to Mark.

BBC told that PM’s chief of staff receives £170k a year, more than any cabinet minister or her Tory predecessor

Former senior civil servant Sue Gray, who became a household name as the Partygate investigator, is at the centre of fresh controversy over the revelation she is paid more than her boss - the prime minister.