The rapid turnover of Tory leaders in recent years has left a legacy of former ministers chasing after.
Associate Editor Gordon Rayner investigates six of the groups that will be key to Ms. Truss’s political survival and where their loyalties lie.
And Philip Johnston concludes that, after 12 years in power, the exhausted Tories have thrown in the towel.
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Russian troops forced to withdraw as Kiev advances
Russian troops in southern Ukraine are on the brink of collapse after withdrawing in the face of one of the fastest Ukrainian advances of the war to date. Ukrainian troops who initially broke through Russian lines on the western bank of the Dnipro River on Monday have now rolled into several strategic villages.
Prominent Russian military bloggers said a “regroup” order had been issued to avoid encirclement.
Reporting from Kharkiv, senior foreign correspondent Roland Oliphant says significant territorial losses suffered by Russian troops appear to have been confirmed in maps used in the background of the Ministry of Defense of Moscow.
And after a Russian convoy was pictured carrying equipment for the Russian nuclear program, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon claims it is time for the West to call Vladmir Putin’s bluff.
Chess champion ‘probably cheated 100 times’
It’s the latest twist in a dramatic chess fraud scandal. An American teenage grandmaster may have had illegal help with more than 100 online games, an investigation finds.
The report accused Hans Niemann, 19, of “blatant” and “rampant” cheating to improve his rating.
Washington editor Raisins Sabur reports on the suspicious movements that suggested the teen had used an online chess engine.
Daily dose of Matt
Mat finds a joke in the Prime Minister’s U-turns for today’s cartoon. and watch Fan‘s cartoon on Vladimir Putin’s nuclear ambitions.
Also in the news: Other headlines from this morning
Good rail news – and bad | Ticket offices at train stations should not be scrapped completely, the transport minister has said, as she: offered unions an olive branch in anticipation of new railway strikes. In a conciliatory speech, Anne-Marie Trevelyan insisted that plans to modernize the railways were “not about cutting jobs”, but as a result of more passengers now buying online. But railway unions are organizing two strikes this week – including one affecting 12 train operators today.
Around the world: Iranian students teach rude
Iranian youths take off their headscarves and give portraits of their church leaders in classrooms the middle fingers as a mass uprising against the regime in Tehran spreads to schools. Video footage posted online showed schoolgirls making the gesture and flipping portraits of Iranian leaders in classrooms against the wall. Middle East correspondent James Rothwell reports how they are protest against rules imposed by the regime’s morality police.