Whoever wins is going to face two big problems. One is that there isn't really a credible unity candidate. The other is of course this terrible terrible economic backdrop. No matter what happens the new leader is going to have to come in and very very quickly agree on a medium-term fiscal plan with the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt assuming he keeps his job.
The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s staying power to that of a lettuce captured global imaginations. Will the next prime minister have a longer shelf-life? We ask why it has proven so tricky to get the Middle East’s considerable natural-gas resources to market. And the murder of Yurii Kerpatenko, a conductor from Kherson who refused to bow to Russian orders.
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