Posting on X, Jason Groves, the political editor of the Daily Mail, said: “Backdrop for the Tories’ big cost of living press conference looks uncannily like an abandoned mattress.” ...

The use of the White House as a convention backdrop is unconventional and comes as Trump and the RNC scrambled to finalize details amid cancellations and COVID-19.

The Conservatives have described it as a “jobs tax” which will make it less likely that bosses take people on or give decent pay rises. Badenoch said: “They are so busy spending other people ...