Zendaya left fans speechless by channeling her inner Greek goddess at the New York City premiere of The Odyssey.

The 29-year-old Dune actor, who stars in the upcoming Christopher Nolan epic as the Greek goddess Athena, wore a feather-covered, sculptural floor-length white gown sourced from French fashion house Matières Fécales on Tuesday’s red carpet at AMC Lincoln Square Theater.

Zendaya’s gown featured an asymmetrical strapless neckline, a feathered train, large angel wings and a thigh-high slit on the left leg.

The bodice was made up of corsetry that cinched her waist and accentuated her hips. Her hair was styled in a tousled fishtail braid to add to the whimsical look.

She wore a natural makeup look, accompanied by a pair of long diamond earrings from the Swiss diamond maker Chopard.

The look has been adored by fans online, with one person writing on Instagram: “JAW. ON. THE. FLOOR.”

“I GASPEDDDDDDD,” another wrote, as another said: “I cannot get over how stunning she is. Truly ethereal.”

“She is everything. Beauty, grace, ethereal,” said one fan. “I thought she was not about to top the last one??!!! How dare me…”

Zendaya has worn a number of showstopping looks to promote The Odyssey.

She was seen in another ethereal look ahead of the premiere earlier in the day, wearing a flowing nude gown sourced from Pamela Rolland, described as “an antique gold pleated silk chiffon Grecian gown from the Fall 2026 Runway Collection,” while leaving her New York City hotel, according to a press release.

Last week, she dazzled at the London premiere wearing a straight-off-the-runway Schiaparelli gown, which featured a similar sculptural white bodice.

The movie follows Odysseus’s decade-long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War as he battles monsters, gods and other mythical foes while his wife Penelope fends off suitors and his son Telemachus searches for him.

The film has already been tipped for awards season success, after the initial verdict from critics was overwhelmingly positive, with many describing it as Nolan’s biggest and most ambitious work to date.

Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Zendaya’s husband Tom Holland as Telemachus. The cast also includes Robert Pattinson as the suitor Antinous, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, as well as Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Samantha Morton, Mia Goth, Elliot Page, and Bill Irwin.

The Independent’s chief film and TV correspondent Jacob Stolworthy described it as “Nolan’s biggest film to date”.

“This film has about triple the number of huge set pieces than any of Nolan’s previous films, and every single one of them is breathtaking in their own way,” he said.

“In The Odyssey, Nolan showcases visual trickery in a way you’ve never seen before.”

Serious hostilities between the US and Iran have resumed. On July 8, Donald Trump said that the ceasefire agreed by the two countries in June was “over”. Since then, he has ordered the US military to carry out intensive airstrikes on Iran and has reimposed an economic blockade of the country.

The US president has also begun to recycle threats he made earlier in the war. These include striking civilian targets and seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, which is host to most of its oil refining capacity.

Hope within the White House of achieving a deal to address Iran’s nuclear capabilities is fading. But Trump is hoping that his latest moves will force Iran to relinquish its control of the Strait of Hormuz, allowing global energy markets to return to normal.

There’s just one problem: none of these things have worked before, and there is no reason to think they will work now. In fact, Trump’s return to the same playbook that has previously failed to end the war on terms acceptable to the US shows just how limited his options have become.

The war began with an attempt by Trump and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to damage Iran’s nuclear capabilities and perhaps topple its regime. However, the conflict’s centre of gravity has since shifted.

Nuclear matters have taken a back seat to the issue of whether shipping through the strait will in the future operate only under what Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, has called “Iranian arrangements”. This means ships will only be allowed to transit on Tehran’s terms.

The US rejects the idea of Iranian control of the strait and wants a return to the situation of free transit that existed before the war. Yet, after all of these months, it has still not figured out a way to achieve this goal at an acceptable cost. To understand why, it is helpful to break down US options into three groups: military, diplomatic and economic.

Trump’s limited options

Militarily, nobody fully controls the Strait of Hormuz. It is a contested zone into which various countries can project military power. However, Iran does not need to control the strait entirely to achieve its aim. It only needs to continue to pose enough of a credible threat to vessels that they are too worried to transit.

Iran’s ability to menace shipping in the strait stems from its stockpile of missiles, drones and fast boats. These are relatively easy to conceal and launch, and the CIA assesses that Iran still has healthy supplies of them. To stop these capabilities, the US would have to seize a vast swathe of Iranian territory, risking great casualties. And even then, success would not be guaranteed.

Seizing Iran’s Kharg Island would likewise be highly risky. Occupying it may be easy initially, but any US forces stationed there would be exposed to Iranian attacks. A lengthy occupation would probably cost lives, making it hard to hold on to the island long enough to use as leverage in negotiations.

As cynical – and probably illegal – as military strikes on civilian targets would be, Trump perhaps thinks they might force Tehran to the table. But they also might not and risk kicking off a round of Iranian retaliation, which could do much greater damage to energy and civilian targets across the Gulf.

The risks and probable futility of these military options are what have pushed Trump to instead explore a diplomatic solution to the conflict over the past few months. But success here has also proven elusive, and it is likely to continue to do so.

The results of diplomacy usually reflect the state of the battlefield. With the US lacking any credible military option to neutralise Iranian influence in the Strait of Hormuz, there is little reason for Tehran to relinquish it.

Mohsen Rezaee, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, recently referred to Iran’s influence in the strait as “more important than dozens of nuclear bombs”. His statement reflects the importance the waterway has taken on in the country’s strategic calculations.

Being able to control shipping through the strait gives Iran leverage against the US. It will not give this up without a very good reason.

Economic tools

A lengthy economic blockade of Iranian ports is perhaps the most effective way Trump has to inflict pain on the Iranian government, whose domestic support may fray in a prolonged economic crisis. Economic grievances, including high inflation, contributed to a wave of unrest in Iran in early 2026 that was met with brutal repression.

However, the economic pain cuts both ways. While the blockade is in place, Iran is unlikely to allow oil and gas to transit the strait. That raises global energy prices, which is a perilous political proposition for Trump, too.

Imposing the blockade is costly in another way for the US – it requires a permanent military deployment to enforce. Given the competing demands made on the US military from other missions, such as deployments in Europe and the Indo-Pacific, this blockade cannot be kept in place forever.

Yet when the blockade is lifted and US forces leave the region, Iran will still be physically next to the Strait of Hormuz, able to menace shipping anew.

Ultimately, Trump has backed himself into a corner from which there is no apparent escape. For all the immense military power available to the US, there are limits to what it can achieve. In this war of his own making, Trump is running hard and fast into them.

Emergency services were on the scene between junctions 45 and 44 near the A64 junction, close to Hazelwood, on Wednesday (July 15).

West Yorkshire Police said the crash was a “damage only collision involving three vehicles”, meaning no one was injured.

The AA first reported the crash at 10.30am, saying the collision had closed two lanes of the A1(M) southbound with drivers facing hour-long delays.

National Highways confirmed at 12.15pm that the road had fully reopened with delays starting to ease.

By 2pm the AA was no longer reporting delays in the area.

The crash came days after a collision elsewhere on the A1(M) caused a “significant spillage” which resulted in delays for drivers, according to National Highways.

One lane of the A1 southbound was closed between junctions 38 for Wakefield and 39 for Doncaster after the crash on Sunday.

The incident on Sunday resulted in 45-minute delays and meant part of the A1 had to be resurfaced, National Highways said.

By SAMEER SURI

Published: 14:46 BST, 15 July 2026 | Updated: 15:10 BST, 15 July 2026

Jennifer Lopez remains saddled with the Los Angeles mansion she and Ben Affleck acquired as their marital home for nearly $61 million.

Lopez, 56, and Affleck, 53, started trying to sell the house in June 2024, two months before she filed for divorce on their second wedding anniversary.

They have been struggling in vain to find a buyer, and Affleck ultimately gave up his entire stake in the property this April, turning his interest over to Lopez.

Now insiders have revealed that Lopez found a potential buyer who paid a ‘substantial’ deposit, only to then withdraw from the deal on Tuesday, via TMZ.

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Located in the luxurious Beverly Crest area on the Westside of Los Angeles, the sprawling 46,000 sq ft estate has 12 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms.

The Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Lopez for comment. 

Jennifer Lopez remains saddled with the $61 million Los Angeles mansion she and Ben Affleck acquired as their marital home 

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Online listings are no longer available for the impressive 12-bedroom, 24-bathroom estate, leaving fans to wonder what Lopez and Affleck’s next move might be

Affleck and Lopez bought the house in 2023, months after they tied the knot in August 2022 in the throes of a rekindled romance with its roots in the early 2000s.

By June 2024, when they began trying to sell, Affleck and Lopez were in the midst of a swirl of rumors that their marriage was skidding towards implosion.

That August, the month of the divorce filing, Affleck acquired a $20 million bachelor pad in the Pacific Palisades and promptly decamped there.

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The house happened to be blocks from the residence of his first ex-wife Jennifer Garner, with whom he co-parents his children Violet, 20, Fin, 17, and Samuel, 14. 

Meanwhile, after her divorce from Affleck was finalized in February 2025, Lopez bought a $21 million property in the Kardashian enclave of Calabasas.

However she not only reportedly kept living in the Beverly Crest mansion she had shared with Affleck, but also subjected it to an extensive remodel.

‘Jennifer is renovating the home to her satisfaction,’ a source exclusively informed the Daily Mail last year. ‘She is spending a lot of money because it’s big: there is the main house, the pool house and a guest house.’ 

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When Lopez and Affleck first listed their property amid the disintegration of their marriage, they set a staggering asking price of $68 million.

There followed a failed escrow, and then a year in which they were unable to secure another buyer, after which they took the house off the market last July.

Although they put the house back up for sale that September, this time brutally marked down to $52 million, they delisted it once again in January.

Sheena McLure died following an incident at the Kilchoan Estate days after Christmas.

A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death an estate worker following a tragic quad bike crash. Sheena McLure, 51, died when the

Sheena McLure, died on December 29 2023 following the incident at the Kilchoan Estate, near Melfort, Argyll and Bute.

The 51-year-old, from Oban, was a housekeeper on the estate and previously worked for the Consul General of Japan in Edinburgh.

A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) is set to be held to examine the circumstances of Sheena’s death and a preliminary hearing will take place at Oban Sheriff Court on Thursday, September 3.

It is expected that the inquiry will focus on the risk assessments and controls relating to the use of unroadworthy off-road vehicles on the estate.

The purpose of an FAI includes determining the cause of death; the circumstances in which the death occurred, and to establish what, if any, reasonable precautions could have been taken, and could be implemented in the future, to minimise the risk of future deaths in similar circumstances.

Unlike criminal proceedings, FAIs are inquisitorial in nature, and are used to establish facts rather than to apportion blame.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has lodged a First Notice to begin the court process for the inquiry.

Debbie Carroll from the COPFS, said: “The death of Sheena McLure occurred while in the course of her employment and as such a Fatal Accident Inquiry is mandatory.

“The lodging of the First Notice enables FAI proceedings to commence under the direction of the Sheriff.

“Ms McLure’s family will continue to be kept informed of significant developments as court proceedings progress.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi has revealed who he wants to become the next Doctor as he opens up whether the show is set to come back

Former Time Lord Peter Capaldi says the next Doctor Who should be a complete unknown.

The sci-fi series faces an uncertain future after the Christmas special was axed for the second year in a row, while screenwriter and TV producer Russell T Davies announced his departure in June.

Capaldi, 68, who played the Doctor from 2013 to 2017 said there’s no doubt that that the show will return but bosses need to rethink their plan for the next leading star.

Peter revealed he’d love to see an unknown actor step into the role: “I think it would be lovely. I’d like to see someone who nobody knew, rather than us all plucking names on people that we’ve seen. I’d like to see something that’s a totally unknown quantity.”

The role is vacant after Ncuti Gatwa, the fifteenth doctor, who appeared in the series from 2023 until 2025, quit. Viewers saw Gatwa’s Doctor regenerate into Billie Piper, who previously played companion Rose Tyler to Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant’s incarnations of The Doctor in the last episode.

However, since the Christmas special has been cancelled it’s unclear if Billie is set to play the next doctor, or if this was a red herring for fans, so the future of the series is very much up in the air.

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When asked if there were any names he could think of who would impress in the role, he admitted there were “lots of names” but it would be “inappropriate” for him to throw any into the mix publicly.

With the announcement that the Christmas special would not go ahead, Russell T Davies also announced his decision to leave Doctor Who once again. “And so GOODBYE from me to Doctor Who but HELLO to a big new future for the show, as the BBC announces it’s putting the show out to tender,” he said at the time.

This led to speculation that Doctor Who would be cancelled entirely, this rumour Peter was happy to shut down.

“Oh, I think it’s coming back.. It is happening, and I look forward to seeing it,” he confirmed to the Mirror.

Revealing the perks of being the Doctor, Peter said: “I mean, it’s just an amazing job. You get to go into work every day and blow up dogs or flying tires, and also when kids meet you when you’re in the heat of it and you’re in the middle of being Doctor Who, they’re meeting Doctor Who, and that is an extraordinary privilege to be on the other side of that. Their eyes widen and they look at you as if as if you’re Santa Claus or something, and it’s incredible.”

In recent years the actor, who broke out in BBC political comedy The Thick of It, has ventured into other areas including music and even performed at Glastonbury Festival in 2025,

He joined fellow Scots Franz Ferdinand on stage to sing their smash hit Take Me Out. He revealed this was the first time he’d ever attended Glastonbury and still feels like a ‘dream’.

“Every time I think about it, it’s like a dream really. I’m not really sure this really happened to have it in my head. It’s just my current dream. Cold breeze on the stage. Everything was harsh and quite a setting. I mean I was really quite frightened because I never. I’ve been to Glastonbury before.”

He described his music as a passion project: ” Well, it’s really something that I’m doing for fun. It’s not about trying to get into the charts or change my career.”

For that reason he can stay detached, without concerns about chart performance: “It doesn’t matter what happens to my music. You know what? If people like it, that’s fine. If they don’t like it, that’s fine. Also, because I’m not doing it in order to claw my way into using industry, I’m doing it because I love this.”

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Emergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to Bearpark Colliery Woods near Durham just before 11.45am on Wednesday (July 15).

The scene of the incident at Bear Park Colliery Woods near Durham today (Image: PAUL WILLIS)

Police have now confirmed the man, a forester, was taken to hospital by paramedics.

An eyewitness said they saw the air ambulance circling before heading to the woods, where emergency services had gathered.

The scene of the incident at Bear Park Colliery Woods near Durham today (Image: PAUL WILLIS)

They told the Northern Echo: “I was at my parents house and watched the air ambulance circling so decided to go have a look.

“I got down to Bear Park Colliery Woods and saw a crowd, an ambulance, the air ambulance, and so many police.

“I got down there and spoke to the emergency services there, who said a worker was injured with a chainsaw in a freak accident, but I don’t know how bad it is.”

The scene of the incident at Bear Park Colliery Woods near Durham today (Image: PAUL WILLIS)

The scene of the incident at Bear Park Colliery Woods near Durham today (Image: PAUL WILLIS)

A spokesperson for GNAAS said: “Our critical care team was activated at 11.33am to reports of an industrial incident in Bearpark Colliery Woods. We had two doctors and a paramedic on board our aircraft and they arrived on scene at 11.48am.

“Our team worked alongside the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) to assess and treat a patient.

“The patient was taken to hospital by a NEAS road crew, accompanied by our team.”

The scene of the incident at Bear Park Colliery Woods near Durham today (Image: PAUL WILLIS)

A spokesperson for North East Ambulance Service said: “We were called to a person injured in Bear Park Colliery Woods, Durham, at 11.21am on 15 July.

“We dispatched a double crewed ambulance, a duty officer, a specialist paramedic, two vehicles from our Hazardous Area Response Team and were supported by Great North Air Ambulance Service. One patient was taken by road to the Royal Victoria Infirmary.”

The scene of the incident at Bear Park Colliery Woods near Durham today (Image: PAUL WILLIS)

A spokesperson for Durham Constabulary said: “We were called just before 11.45am to reports of a forester being injured whilst working in Bear Park Colliery Woods.

“Officers assisted the ambulance service who transported the man to hospital.”

The Northern Echo has contacted Durham County Council for a comment.

The theft happened in Lansdown Road, Google, between 10pm last Sunday (July 12) and 7.30am the following day, Humberside Police said.

A force spokesperson said the shed’s lock was broken and meat was stolen out of a freezer.

They urged anyone with information about the incident to contact Humberside Police, saying: “If you have any CCTV footage (including video doorbell), saw anyone acting suspiciously in the area around this time or have any information about the offenders please contact the police on the non-emergency number 101 quoting occurrence ref: 26000097424.

“Alternatively you could call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. You don’t have to leave your name and you may even receive a reward.

“You can also provide information anonymously on the Crimestoppers website.”

By JOANNA CRAWLEY, DEPUTY SHOWBIZ EDITOR (NEWS)

Published: 14:13 BST, 15 July 2026 | Updated: 14:38 BST, 15 July 2026

Chef Parveen Ashraf, 61, also known as Parveen the Spice Queen, has returned to social media six months after the death of her husband.

The chef shot to fame in 2019 after starring in ITV series Parveen’s Indian Kitchen. She has since built up a strong social media following, sharing her recipes and cooking videos with nearly 30k followers.

Parveen has not posted on her popular Instagram account since October though, and recently returned to explain her lengthy absence, confirming her husband of 38 years Qamar had died six months ago. 

Uploading a video, the tearful chef told her followers: ‘Hi everyone, it is Parveen the Spice Queen – but I am not even sure if I am still her.’

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‘I just wanted to come on here as I’ve been away for a while but I wanted to come and say that I think I am ready to come back to work.’

‘But I am not even sure what [work] means yet. I had a personal tragedy and I lost my husband about six months ago.’

Chef Parveen Ashraf, 61, also known as Parveen the Spice Queen, has returned to social media six months after the death of her husband

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Parveen has not posted on her Instagram account since October though, and recently returned to explain her lengthy absence, confirming her husband Qamar had died six months ago

‘Those that have lost somebody, you will know how painful this is. I feel he wouldn’t want me to wallow in self-pity so I am going to try and get back to work and posting videos and recipes.’

Parveen blew a kiss to the camera as she added in her caption: ‘The pain of losing someone you love is all consuming and it’s easy to just let the grief take over, however for the sake of my own sanity, I am hoping to get back to work soon.

‘Rest in peace my darling man.’

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In a December Facebook post, Parveen told her loved ones that Qamar ‘my husband of 38 years and the father of my 3 children was taken from us tragically and suddenly.’

‘He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and was killed during a robbery in Ghana.’ Qamar had been living in Ghana at the time of the incident

In another recent Instagram post the chef thanked her followers for their support and shared ‘a few pics of our 38 years together.’

She added that she chose the Genesis song Follow You, Follow Me to accompany her video montage as ‘I always told him that wherever he was, I would follow him – and I did;  I left my parents home and followed him to London.’

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The chef shot to fame in 2019 after starring in ITV series, Parveen’s Indian Kitchen. She has since built up a strong social media following

 In a December Facebook post, Parveen told her loved ones that Qamar ‘was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and was killed during a robbery in Ghana’

‘He got a contract in Leeds, so I and my 2 toddlers followed him. He got a job in Peterborough, so I moved there with my 2 children and one on the way.

‘He went to Ghana and I left the UK and my 2 eldest children and follows him. He is now in a different realm and I will follow him there too.’

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‘Rest in peace my darling handsome, stubborn, whitty, intelligent husband.’

Police have arrested a man for threatening to shoot and kill Nigel Farage.

The man was arrested on Tuesday in London after a post on X warned the Reform UK leader: ‘I am going to shoot you in the head if you win.’ 

The suspect is understood to have described himself as a terrorist on social media. 

The arrest for the threat on Mr Farage’s life came just days after former MP and Reform spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was killed in a ‘targeted attack’. 

He revealed yesterday that he gets 30 death threats a week. Reform UK said it has recorded 1,577 threats against Mr Farage since February, including 597 death threats.

The figures include multiple threats from a number of individuals whom the party believes are ‘fixated’ with the idea of killing him. 

The post on X was made on May 8 on the day of the local elections, but the suspect was only arrested yesterday – almost two months later and six days after Miss Widdecombe was found dead in the kitchen of her remote Dartmoor bungalow.

According to The Telegraph, his profile shows a picture of a British Asian man. 

Officers from the Metropolitan Police told Mr Farage this morning a male had been arrested on suspicion of sending a threatening communication.

He has since been released on bail.  

The arrest for the threat on Mr Farage’s life came just days after former MP and Reform spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe was killed in a ‘targeted attack’

Mr Farage told The Telegraph: ‘This is the first time the police have ever proactively acted on a social media post, and I hope they are looking at the other three or four hundred similar posts from this year alone.’

The post was reported to Scotland Yard’s parliamentary liaison and investigations team by the Parliament’s security information and risk analysis service, according to the newspaper. 

Reform has compiled a dossier of hundreds of threatening messages received by Mr Farage, many of them posted on X.

They include 597 death threats – equal to an average of four a day or almost 30 a week.

One, posted on June 23, stated: ‘Execute the stinking traitor Nigel Farage. TODAY.’

Another, sent two days later by a persistent individual, said: ‘Get the f*** out of Wales before I just kill Nigel Farage… you can die at any f***ing moment.’

A third sent on July 2 accompanied by an image of a noose, said: ‘In 1916, traitors like you would have ended your days early in the Tower of London.’

One message, sent from a suspected neo-Nazi account, said Mr Farage would ‘get executed’ as a ‘race traitor’.

This morning, Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf called for the budget for MPs’ safety to be increased to £100m, with a bodyguard for every one of them.

Last year, Afghan migrant Fayaz Khan, who has a tattoo of an AK-47 on his left cheek, was jailed for five years for making a threat to kill Mr Farage. 

Last year, Afghan migrant Fayaz Khan (pictured), who has a tattoo of an AK-47 on his left cheek, was jailed for five years for making a threat to kill Mr Farage 

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The Reform leader claimed today that he was initially told by Keir Starmer that Miss Widdecombe died during a ‘burglary gone wrong’. 

He said he was also told the same by the chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police James Vaughan in the aftermath of her body being discovered last week.

On Monday it was revealed that counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into her death at her Dartmoor bungalow, and have arrested a 28-year-old man. 

Mr Farage and other Reform figures have used the killing to put the spotlight on the threat to their safety.

Speaking to Talk TV today, Mr Farage said: ‘I spoke to the chief constable of Devon and Cornwall police three times. I spoke to the prime minister as well and those calls took place over Friday and Saturday and they both told me it’s a burglary that’s gone wrong.

‘I said, no, it is not. A burglar does not park his car on your drive and walk into the house.  A burglar parks in a lay-by down the road or has a getaway driver. 

‘And I went to Dartmoor on Saturday and I said, I have no doubt this is a premeditated murder. I received tons of abuse for saying it but sadly it’s proved that I’m right. It was obvious.’

Later, he insisted to The Sun he was not trying to ‘point the finger’ at the PM, saying it had been a very ‘courteous’ conversation. 

The Daily Mail has contacted the Met Police for comment.