Rishi Sunak wants to await Gavin Williamson inquiry result before deciding whether to sack him

Prime minister asked about minister’s future as judgment called into question over Williamson’s reappointment.

Rishi Sunak has said he wants to await the outcome of the inquiry into the aggessive messages sent by Gavin Williamson to a fellow Tory MP before deciding whether or not to sack him from his ministerial post.

• Sunak has stressed the importance of working with countries like France to cut the number of small boat Channel crossings, and said that talks with EU leaders on the subject at Cop27 left him with “renewed confidence and optimism” about being able to address the problem. See 4.32pm.

• Sunak has pledged the UK’s continued support for conserving threatened forests around the world, through a funding programme covering a third of the world’s forests, at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt.

• China has criticised the British government for sending the trade minister Greg Hands to Taiwan and said the UK must cease “sending the wrong signals” to pro-independence forces on the self-ruled island that Beijing regards as its territory.

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