Good morning. Reform UK are holding a press conference this morning. It is going to feature Robert Jenrick, the party’s Treasury spokesperson, and he wants to talk about Andy Burnham’s speech yesterday about social care reform. But we already know what Jenrick thinks about that, and there are plenty of other stories that reporters might want to ask about.

For a start, there is Anna Isaac’s latest Guardian scoop about George Cottrell.

Someone might want to ask about a Reform UK councillor from Sunderland being charged with posting a grossly offensive message on social media after allegedly making a racist comment about Nigerians.

And Jenrick may want to talk about a different police charging decision – the Met saying no further action will be taken against the Green party leader, Zack Polanski, after a photo of a man with a T-shirt showing a guillotine and the phrase “we’re only making plans for Nigel”.

Here is Aletha Adu’s story about this announcement.

And here is the full press release from the Metropolitan police. The Met says it is “unlikely that the sharing of the image online would constitute a criminal offence” and that, because more than 100 other people shared the post, it would be unfair just to take action against Polanski, and disproportionate to investigate everyone who did the same.

Reform UK are not happy about this. “Once again we see that we are living in two-tier Britain,” a party spokesperson claimed.

But the Green party said it was “obvious from the start” that Polanski had not committed an offence and that Reform UK were “always using this as a political football for their own cynical purposes to distract from questions” about how Farage’s party was funded.

Here is the agenda for the day.

9.30am: The Ministry of Justice publishes figures about assaults and deaths in prisons in England and Wales.

10am: Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick holds a press conference.

Morning: Andy Burnham is on a visit in Cumbria to confirm an £8bn spending announcement as part of the next phase of the nuclear submarine replacement programme.

Also, in Greater Manchester people are already voting in the byelection for a new mayor, to replace Andy Burnham.

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