Portrait of the week | 22 February 2018

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Someone called Jan Sarkocy said that, as a Czech Security Service agent in London under the name Jan Dymic, he met Jeremy Corbyn several times in 1986 and 1987 and gave him money; Mr Corbyn called his account false and warned newspapers that reported such allegations ‘change is coming’. Henry Bolton, 54, was removed as leader of Ukip at a special meeting, and then returned to his girlfriend, 25, whose text messages about black people had caused him trouble. Theresa May, the Prime Minister, launched a year-long review of higher education, but ruled out abolishing tuition fees, which Labour promised to do. Oxfam agreed not to bid for government funding until the Department for International Development was satisfied it could show it met the ‘high standards’ required. Brendan Cox, the husband of the murdered MP Jo Cox, resigned from two charities he set up in her memory after allegations of sexual assault; he denied assaulting a woman at Harvard University in 2015, but admitted ‘inappropriate’ behaviour while working for Save the Children.

The number of victims of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 has risen to more than 1,500, the National Crime Agency said. Barry Bennell, a former football coach aged 64, was jailed for 31 years at Liverpool Crown Court for 50 counts of child sexual abuse. Matthew Falder, a Cambridge graduate aged 29, who admitted 137 charges — including rape — against 46 people and shared images of paedophilia on the dark web, was jailed for 32 years at Birmingham Crown Court. Russell Hume, a meat wholesaler investigated by the Food Standards Agency over use-by dates, went into administration. Jamie Oliver closed his Barbecoa steak restaurant in Piccadilly. KFC temporarily closed more than half of its 900 UK outlets, which had run out of chicken as a result of its delivery contract with DHL.