Exclusive: PM made flying visit to his North Yorkshire constituency, using millionaire’s chopper to return to London

Rishi Sunak took a helicopter owned by a millionaire Conservative donor to fly from North Yorkshire to London on Saturday, before appearing at a hastily arranged campaign trip in south London.

The prime minister made two relatively low-key campaign stops during the day, after the Guardian revealed on Friday he was planning to spend the day solely in his constituency and London.

Incident follows heavy rain across the UK, with Met Office warning the ‘worst is yet to come’

A person has died in a mudslide in Carlton-in-Cleveland, on the edge of the North York Moors national park.

North Yorkshire police said the incident occurred at 1.15pm on Wednesday and that no one else was injured.