Theresa May’s attention was taken by six-day-old Ted Young as she visited a new housing estate in Wokingham, Berkshire, yesterday

Theresa May did not offer the Labour leadership the same access to highly classified information this week as David Cameron gave to Ed Miliband over Syria in 2013, The Times understands.

An intelligence briefing on the Salisbury nerve agent attack was extended to Jeremy Corbyn under privy council terms before the prime minister updated the Commons on Wednesday. However, he was not offered the same level of briefing that Mr Cameron gave to Mr Miliband and Tim Livesey, his chief of staff, before a parliamentary vote on military action in Syria.

Mr Cameron invited Mr Miliband and Mr Livesey into Downing Street for a national security council meeting in Mr Cameron’s study. He is likely to have wanted to bind Mr Miliband in to his