a trade war with europe would be in the uk's national interests. so the hope in brussels is he's going to be a little bit more pragmatic. but, he still the leader of a party that is brexiteer, it is passionately brexiteer and that means he won't have that much room for manoeuvre over things like the northern ireland protocol, all those other loose ends from the brexit trade deal where there is a lot of stuff that still needs to be agreed. hopefully a degree of calmness can come over it, may be some progress can happen on that but it's not automatic. an important new phase in the ukraine war is starting. the ukrainian forces are closing in on kherson city in the south, which controls a part of the access to crimea. but winter is on its way and russia has been targeting ukraine's power stations, cutting electricity supplies to the population. life is suddenly becoming even harder for ukraine's civilians.