The i describes Ms Braverman’s speech as a “hardline job application” to one day replace Rishi Sunak as leader of the Conservative Party. Cabinet ministers are “privately” accusing her of “jockeying” for the top job – and “not focusing” on her current one, the paper reports. Elsewhere there are diary entries, belonging to the government’s former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, which have been read out at the start of stage two of the Covid Inquiry. One entry accused then prime minister Boris Johnson of “flip-flopping” over the pandemic.