Ministers are desperately drawing up contingency plans to tackle food shortages if farmers strike over inheritance tax changes. Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said the Government would ensure food security if it faces militant action over the plans. Some farmers have warned that they could stop production which could empty supermarket shelves and prompt panic buying.

Kamala Harris’s campaign paid more than double what was previously thought to Oprah Winfrey as Democrats continue to fundraise past the election after going into debt to run a presidential bid. Reports emerged that Harris’s campaign paid Winfrey’s Harpo Productions $1 million as part of a very pricey and short run for the White House. But now, the New York Times reports that two people familiar with the matter reveal the full price of the event with Winfrey cost closer to $2.5 million.

Masked men scaled a 6ft fence to sneak onto the Windsor Castle estate as the Prince and Princess of Wales slept in their cottage just a stone’s throw away. The two men reportedly used a stolen truck to smash through a security gate before stealing farm vehicles and driving off in a pick-up and on a quad bike that they took from a barn at Shaw Farm. Just five minutes away, William and Kate and their children George, 11, Charlotte, nine and Louis, six, are thought to have been peacefully asleep.

Donald Trump Jr has accused President Joe Biden of trying to start WWIII before his father can take office after the US gave the green light for Ukraine to blast targets inside Russia with US-supplied long-range missiles. The decision is a major US policy shift and comes as Biden is about to leave office while President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to limit American support for Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible. Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, posted on X after Biden’s decision was announced, saying that ‘the military industrial complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives’.

President Joe Biden has lifted that ban on Ukraine’s use of US-supplied long-range missiles meaning the war-torn country can now strike deep inside Russia, sources say. The decision is a major US policy shift and comes as Biden is about to leave office and President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to limit American support for Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible. US officials briefed the New York Times on the move in the wake of one of Russia’s biggest aerial bombardments of Ukraine in the war on Saturday night.

Donald Trump is bringing yet another one of his lawyers to his administration, this time bringing an attorney who helped him get a sweeping ‘immunity’ decision out of the Supreme Court to a powerful White House post. Trump’s transition team announced Saturday that Will Scharf will join serve as White House Staff Secretary an an assistant to the president. ‘Will is a highly skilled attorney who will be a crucial part of my White House team. He has played a key role in defeating the Election Interference and Lawfare waged against me, including by winning the Historic Immunity Decision in the Supreme Court,’ Trump wrote.