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Boris Johnson is yet to do any TV interviews and today even ducked an off-camera hustings with political journalists.

The prospect of leaving Europe without an agreement is looming large for businesses.

Work and Pensions secretary Amber Rudd is backing Jeremy Hunt.

We began by asking Priti Patel if Boris Johnson’s reluctance to be interviewed increased his chances of success.

We spoke to the Leader of the House, Andrea Leadsom, about her campaign to be PM, and put it to her that there was no such thing as a managed no-deal exit from the European Union.

Two of the frontrunners, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, have made some pretty meaty financial pledges.

Cathy Newman spoke to former Conservative party chair Sayeeda Warsi and began by asking her how the revelations about drug use are going down with the grass roots.

Many of the candidates trying to take over as Tory leader have made promises today about tax and spending.

Marcellus Baz is a former gang member and drug dealer who now runs the charity Switch Up which works with young people in Nottingham to steer them away from gangs. 

We are at the site of that first landing – Pegasus Bridge, over the River Orne.  

Kathy Burk, Emeritus Professor of History at University College London, Rear Admiral Alex Burton, formerly of the Royal Navy, and Anne Applebaum, a columnist at the Washington Post, discuss the D-Day anniversary.

Along with Theresa May, the Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt was also in Portsmouth, and we spoke to her earlier about some of the tensions of our time.

The veterans of the Normandy landings who were able to be in Portsmouth today are the ever-shrinking band of servicemen with first-hand memories of the invasion.

Team Boris is widely thought to be worried that Team Raab might beat them in the first round and dangerously damage the former Foreign Secretary’s standing as the frontrunner.