Portrait of the week: Scotland’s new First Minister, Prince Harry’s day in court and Amsterdam’s campaign against British men

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Humza Yousaf was elected leader of the Scottish National party, beating Kate Forbes by 52 per cent to 48 per cent after Ash Regan was eliminated; MSPs then elected him First Minister. Of 19 transgender prisoners in custody in Scotland, 12 began their transition ‘after their date of admission’, according to data obtained under Freedom of Information laws. The National Executive Committee of the Labour party voted 22 to 12 to bar Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate at the next election. The terrorism threat level in Northern Ireland was raised from substantial to severe, meaning an attack was highly likely. The Grenadier Guards who carried the late Queen’s coffin into St George’s Chapel, Windsor, were among those recognised in the Demise Honours list, in which the King made appointments to the Royal Victorian Order by his own choice. The Duke of Sussex visited the High Court to watch proceedings in a privacy case he has brought against Associated Newspapers. Children below 11 will be offered the polio vaccine in London, where there has been some transmission of the virus, although the disease had been eradicated in Britain in 2003. James Bowman, the countertenor, died aged 81.

DP World, which built the London Gateway container port and also owns P&O Ferries, which sacked 800 British workers last year in favour of cheaper foreign ones, was approved to co-run the Thames Freeport in Essex. After interest rates were raised another quarter of a percentage point by the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, its governor, blamed early retirement for ‘upward pressure on inflation’. Royal Mail, in dispute with the Communication Workers Union, considered declaring the business insolvent under the Postal Act. British Airways cancelled about 32 Heathrow flights a day at the start of the Easter holidays because of a ten-day strike by security workers in the Unite union.

Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, came up with some scheme to make vandals mend the damage they had done within 48 hours of being ordered to do so.