ELECTION DIGEST

• Boris Johnson has yet to confirm his appearance on the BBC to be interviewed by journalist Andrew Neil, below, it has emerged. Nicola Sturgeon and Jeremy Corbyn have both faced tough examinations by the veteran broadcaster this week, with Jo Swinson and Nigel Farage set to appear next week. But responding to questions about the Prime Minister’s appearance, the BBC said: “We’re in ongoing discussions with his team but we haven’t yet been able to fix a date”.

• Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson will accuse Boris Johnson of having “dragged the office of Prime Minister through the mud” in a highly personal attack today. Swinson’s speech will accuse the Prime Minister of having “lied” over the rights of EU citizens, a border in the Irish Sea, his do-or-die Brexit pledge, and to the Queen about proroguing parliament. “His life has been about becoming Prime Minister... out of some sense of Etonian entitlement,” she will say.

• Boris Johnson also revealed how he deals with sticky situations - after being asked whether to put cream or jam first on a scone. On a visit to Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream factory, the PM lathered jam onto his scone before dolloping cream on top, saying he believed the preserve to be more “adhesive”. After being applauded for adopting “the Cornish way”, he then confessed: “My mind went a total blank as I was trying to explain which way round it went and I literally couldn’t remember, so I guessed. Gut instinct.”