According to The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, a late-night talk show in the US, there is a major backlash under way in Britain over the appointment of the country's first Asian Prime Minister. This is surely a case of Americans stamping their own culture wars on the rest of the world – because the truth is that the vast.
At five centimetres smaller than the average man, Rishi Sunak is physically diminutive. Is it us, or is the average male world leader shrinking, to the extent that we now live on a Planet of the Imps?
ANDREW PIERCE: When he lost to Liz Truss in the poll of party members earlier this year, Rishi Sunak told his most trusted aides that it could be the end of his frontbench political career.