Good evening. The Metropolitan Police is investigating an allegation of sexual assault relating to Russell Brand. Also, Liz Truss has urged the Prime Minister to delay or abandon key net zero pledges.

Scotland Yard confirmed it had received a report of an attack alleged to have taken place against a woman in Soho in 2003 and detectives have said they are in contact with the woman. Earlier, Rishi Sunak’s official spokesman said the culture secretary Lucy Frazer is expected to speak to broadcasters at the earliest opportunity to seek assurances that claims Brand attacked multiple women will be thoroughly examined. It came as Brand’s father, Ron Brand, accused the BBC of pursuing a “vendetta” against his son. Read our live blog for the latest. Elsewhere, comedian Simon Evans believes Brand has never been funny. Read his comment in full.

Liz Truss has questioned if the Government’s net zero drive has public support. Speaking at the Institute for Government think tank, the former prime minister said the push to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 had been “institutionalised before it actually has democratic consent”. Ms Truss also urged Rishi Sunak to delay or abandon some of the Government’s key net zero measures as she warned against hitting families with additional costs. Read our live blog for the latest.

Raising the inheritance tax threshold to £1m could win the Tories next year’s general election – just like it did in 2010 – according to MPs. Anthony Browne, who chairs the Backbench Treasury Committee, recalls the “huge political debate” over inheritance tax swirling back in 2009. The South Cambridgeshire MP said he suggested to then-shadow chancellor George Osborne that upping the inheritance tax threshold to £1m would be a vote winner and he now says the political narrative could do with a similar change. Ruby Hinchcliffe has the full story.

Boris Johnson | A new documentary has claimed that officials raised concerns with Buckingham Palace about the ex-PM’s “behaviour during pandemic,” in the hope that Elizabeth II would address his conduct.