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Portrait of the week: Prince Harry heads to court, Waitrose says sorry and Rishi goes to Washington

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The government was acquiring two barges to house 1,000 migrants in addition to one at Portland for 500. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said that small-boat crossings of the Channel were down 20 per cent, and ‘our plan is starting to work’. A group of asylum-seekers, transferred to a Comfort Inn in Pimlico and told they would have to share four to a room, refused to enter and stayed on the pavement. The scandal-hit CBI said that 93 per cent of the 371 members who voted backed its plans to reform; the British Chambers of Commerce launched a rival group called the Business Council.

The Duke of Sussex popped over to London to give evidence in the High Court about his claims of phone-hacking by Mirror Group Newspapers’ journalists listening to voicemails; the judge, Mr Justice Fancourt, said he was ‘a little surprised’ that the Duke was not in court on the trial’s first day. Sitting in the witness box with a computer screen, the Duke declared that he had ‘experienced hostility from the press since I was born’. In a written statement, he said: ‘Both myself and my wife have been subjected to a barrage of horrific personal attacks and intimidation from Piers Morgan, who was the editor of the Daily Mirror between 1995 and 2004.’

Waitrose put up signs saying ‘Sorry’ on empty shelves where fresh produce had not been delivered because of a distribution failure. Diesel prices fell by 12p a litre in May to an average of £1.47, but the fall was ‘smaller than it should be’ according to the RAC. Tens of thousands of employees of British Airways, Boots and the BBC had their personal data exposed by a data breach at their payroll provider, Zellis; a Russian cybercrime gang called Clop demanded a ransom.

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