U-turn

The best known of his nonfiction works was “The Onion Field,” a chilling story that starts with a routine stop for an illegal U-turn and quickly leads to the execution of a Los Angeles police officer in a Kern County field.

Questions have been raised about the Labour government's U-turn on its manifesto pledge to raise international development funding by 0.2% of GDP, with unease among some Labour MPs about the move.

Senior climate adviser Charlie Kronick said: "Government policies will also need to prioritise renewable power, and as extreme weather puts pressure on insurance models - policymakers will be looking to fossil fuel profits as a way to fund extreme weather recovery. BP might want to seriously put the brakes on this U-turn."

Following the announcement of the delays, Emma Webber, mum of Barnaby Webber, said the move was "another 11th-hour U-turn" and "the result of another relentless and torturous fight that we've had to wage against yet another agency who has failed to do their job properly".

The U-turn is a cautionary tale for critics of the triple lock in the UK.