US Vice-President JD Vance is meeting Conservative shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick at the house where he is staying during his holiday in the UK. The BBC has been told Vance's team invited Jenrick to a private meeting with the vice-president in the Cotswolds on Tuesday.

JD Vance is to host Robert Jenrick at his holiday retreat in the Cotswolds, in a move that will do little to dampen speculation about the senior Tory’s leadership ambitions. But the US vice president will not meet the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, according to reports.

Vance will also meet Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, whose profile has been boosted by a series of viral videos since he lost the race to be Tory leader to Badenoch last November, and who is widely believed to still harbour leadership ambitions as the Conservative party struggles to regain traction.