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Kylian Mbappé has stunned Paris Saint-Germain by presenting a formal letter to the club’s hierarchy, informing them of his decision not to take up the option of a one-year contract extension next summer. Unless Mbappé is convinced to either reverse his decision or negotiate a completely new deal, the striker’s contract will expire in June 2024, when the 24-year-old would be able to leave PSG on a free transfer. The club hierarchy are said to have taken the news in the letter badly, having previously thought that talks over a contract renewal were progressing well. The most likely scenario now appears to…

Boris Johnson entered in a public slanging match with Rishi Sunak on Monday, saying the Prime Minister was “talking rubbish” in a row over his honours list. ‌Breaking his silence on the resignation of Mr Johnson on Monday morning, the Prime Minister accused his predecessor-but-one of having asked him to overrule the vetting committee to push through his House of Lords nominations. ‌Mr Sunak told an audience in central London that this was not something he was “prepared to do” and if people did not like that, it was “tough”. ‌In the afternoon, Mr Johnson hit back – rejecting Mr…

MSP Ash Regan called for “decisive action” after Ms Sturgeon was arrested by police and released without charge on Sunday as part of an investigation into SNP finances. The former party leader said she was “innocent of any wrongdoing”. An SNP spokesman said the party was co-operating fully with the investigation. Police Scotland is investigating what happened to £660,000 of donations given to the SNP by independence activists for use in a future independence referendum campaign. Ms Regan, who quit as community safety minister over the gender recognition reform bill and finished third in the SNP leadership contest, told BBC…

The care minister, Helen Whately, has declined to back Matt Hancock’s claim that the government threw a “protective ring around care homes” at the start of the pandemic. Whately worked under the former health secretary in the first 18 months of Covid, but she avoided endorsing her former boss’s assertion, which will be tested at the public inquiry which starts in earnest this week. Asked whether Hancock was right in May 2020 when he told parliament “we absolutely did throw a protective ring around social care”, Whately told the Guardian she wanted to “use my own words which is that…

A delighted Pep Guardiola said Manchester City’s 1-0 victory over Internazionale at Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium that claimed the Champions League and a historic treble was “written in the stars”. Rodri’s 68th-minute strike gave City a first European Cup in a hard-fought final in which Romelu Lukaku spurned a late chance to equalise with a header, Ederson saving via a knee at close range. Guardiola said: “It was written in the stars that we’d win this season – and we did. I’m feeling tired, calm and satisfied. This fucking trophy is so difficult to win. We knew it would be hard. They are…

The arrest of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon by Police Scotland investigating the funding and finances of the SNP is a sensational development that has sent shockwaves across the Scottish political establishment. It follows a two-year inquiry by senior detectives at Police Scotland, assisted by officers from the National Crime Agency, into what’s become known as the “missing £600,000”. This cash was raised by a crowdfunding effort by the SNP leadership, while she was party leader and first minister of Scotland, to pay for a campaign in an independence referendum. But the vote hasn’t taken place and the money is missing. On Sunday,…

Boris Johnson claims the Cabinet Office is refusing to return his notebooks from his time as Prime Minister over fears he would pass them to the Covid Inquiry. Speaking for the first time since standing down as an MP, the former prime minister said the Cabinet Office was “foot-dragging” and accused it of wasting “public time and money”. The Cabinet Office has begun a judicial review and seeks to prevent the release to the inquiry of any material it considers to be “unambiguously irrelevant” and which could compromise ministers’ private lives. Last week, it told the inquiry Mr Johnson could undermine…

The former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has died aged 86. The media tycoon, who led three Italian governments between 1994 and 2011 and whose Forza Italia party is a junior partner in the current ruling coalition, had been suffering from leukaemia for some time. Berlusconi was one of Italy’s most flamboyant politicians, making a political comeback in 2017 despite a career tainted by sex scandals, countless allegations of corruption and a tax fraud conviction. He spent six weeks at Milan’s San Raffaele’s hospital this spring, undergoing treatment for a lung infection linked to a chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia, before being readmitted. Born…

Since his emergence at the top level of professional tennis 18 years ago, Novak Djokovic has used the dizzying bar set by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal before him as inspiration to push himself to his limits, never doubting that he would one day rise above it. What once seemed impossible eventually became inevitable. On Sunday, Djokovic finally surpassed his great rivals in the most significant category of all as he defeated Casper Ruud 7-6 (1), 6-3, 7-5 to clinch his 23rd grand slam title, breaking his tie of 22 with Nadal. This historic victory means that Djokovic is now the men’s…

Michael Gove has said that “life moves on” after Boris Johnson’s resignation as an MP, as ministers tried once again to shift attention from an embittered former leader showing little sign of wanting to leave parliament quietly. Gove, the UK communities and housing secretary, used a morning broadcast round to stress what he said were the “significant contributions that Boris made”, while firmly presenting him as a figure now in the Conservatives’ past. Gove was asked if he agreed that Johnson, who announced on Friday evening he was stepping down as an MP to pre-empt a damning verdict from the…