Sky News asked Zahawi if there is any veracity in the claim that he threatened to resign if Boris went through with his initial ploy to make Liz Truss Chancellor.
Police in Akron shot a man dead - he was hit more than 60 times. He was not armed when he was shot, but he was thought to have fired at them using a gun that was found in his car.
Overkill ?
I like the way that the organisers of the TdF have contrived to find hillocks sufficiently high to register for KoM points on the stages in Denmark - yesterday the crest of the highest hill was 80m above sea level, ( and they got to over 70m as they crossed the suspension bridge ), and today's is 64m. In total over the 2 days there are 6 "cat 4" climbs with 1 point available on eack of them.
Externally Boris is a chameleon, willing to change his words and allegiances at a whim, to boost his image. Internally he is an unreconstructed elitist, who hasn't shed one shred of his Bullingdon character.