Inside Politics: Channel row escalates and Labour takes poll lead over Tories

France accuses UK of financial blackmail and support for Tories slumps to lowest level since election, writes Matt Mathers

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She did it. Tennis sensation Emma Raducanu has made history by becoming the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final, with victory over Maria Sakkari in the semi-final of the US Open at Flushing Meadows. It was a relatively comfortable straight-sets win for the British teen, whose heroics in New York have earned her the nickname Emma Radu-cando. Back at Westminster, one politician who can’t seem to do anything right at the moment is Gavin Williamson. Yesterday he called for an end to online lectures...via Zoom because he apparently couldn’t be bothered to show up to a Universities UK conference. Elsewhere, France and Britain are embroiled in a row over Channel crossings and Labour has overtaken the Tories in a new poll.

Inside the bubble

A series of private members bills are being debated in the Commons and Lords this morning from 9.30am