Here is a summary of today’s events. The 12th and final leadership hustings took place in London this evening with Nick Ferrari chairing. Almost half of the public think Boris Johnson has done a bad job as prime minister, the worst rating of any post-war British leader, a new poll has found. The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) says the £14m paid out in half-year dividends to Reach newspaper group shareholders in 2021 would have funded a 7% pay rise for staff. Growing numbers of workers are cutting their workplace pension contributions or opting out of schemes entirely because they cannot afford payments – prompting calls for employers to increase the amounts they pay in. The former head of the civil service, Lord O’Donnell has said he thinks there is an “issue” with having a “very small number of activists” choosing the next prime minister. Boris Johnson has insisted Britain is “absolutely not” broken at the end of his premiership, and said that “this country has got an incredible future and has everything going for it”. The Queen will receive Boris Johnson and the new prime minister on Tuesday at Balmoral, not Buckingham Palace, the palace has announced The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, has defended his decision not to back recent strikes or allow his frontbenchers to appear on picket lines, saying he does not want to lose “focus on getting into power”. A number of Labour MPs expressed solidarity with Royal Mail, BT and media workers striking today and tweeted pictures of themselves on picket lines. The Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association has announced a strike of rail workers to coincide with the Labour party conference in September. The Rail, Maritime and Transport union warned that a funding deal for Transport for London would prompt further strike action. Its general secretary, Mick Lynch, said the deal was likely to attack members’ pensions and restrain pay. The Scottish and Welsh Tory leaders, Douglas Ross and Andrew Davies, said the next prime minister should announce significant packages of support to help businesses cover rising energy costs. A group of 40 conservation and rights organisations called on the next government not to scrap green and social regulations in the UK, as Truss and Sunak have promised to do. Boris Johnson paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died, saying he was “one of those people who changed the world and unquestionably changed it for the better”. Dozens of bishops from drought-ravaged east Africa have appealed to the UK government to urgently get more funding to people in need. The UK’s Covid-19 alert level has been downgraded from level three to level two.