MAILONLINE LIVE BLOG: Get all the latest news and updates on the latest Tory leadership race to become Britain’s new Prime Minister on October 21, 2022.

The lavish interiors of a £274,000-a-week yacht that Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster are enjoying a family summer holiday on have been revealed.

The British rocker, 77, and his police officer wife, 51, are believed to be staying on the St David, which sleeps 12 people, enough to house their big brood.

STEPHANIE DAVIES-ARAI: Penny Mordaunt claims that, as Minister for Women and Equalities, she was ‘challenging the trans orthodoxy with real concern’. She was doing nothing of the sort.

Liz Truss seemed to pick up some of eliminated Attorney General Suella Braverman’s backers in the third round of voting by MPs, going up from 64 to 71.

Lord Moylan said Tory leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt quit the role of head of communications for Kensington and Chelsea Council in London because she ‘couldn’t do the job’.

The leadership hopeful has claimed that rivals depicting her as a ‘woke warrior’ want to damage her reputation, and has sought to depict herself as ‘no-nonsense’ and ‘down-to-earth’.

PLATELL’S PEOPLE: Another said it would be ‘a mistake to replace a leader with a brain the size of Britain with someone who had a brain the size of the Isle of Man’.

Penny Mordaunt – a surprise bookies’ favourite – demanded her opponents tone down their tactics as she boasted about polls suggesting is the most popular with party members.