They were the secret negotiations between Nigel Farage s Brexit Party and shadowy Tory fixer Dougie Smith which sowed the seeds of the disaster facing Rishi Sunak.
Thousands of Lebanese on Friday mourned a slain Christian political official authorities said was killed by a Syrian gang, with supporters pointing the finger at Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah group."If they (Hezbollah) did not kill him, at the very least they allowed the Syrians in.
The killing of a local politician has deepened sectarian and political faultines in Lebanon, raising fears of armed clashes between rival factions in a country already beset by a deep economic crisis, and cross-border shelling linked to the Gaza War. Government and religious officials have rushed to quell tensions after the killing of Pascal Sleiman prompted fears of renewed street brawls between rival parties and triggered beatings of Syrians. Sleiman headed the anti-Hezbollah Lebanese Forces Party in a predominantly Christian coastal area.
ANALYSIS: A row in Southend highlights how the real Tory civil war is being fought in the candidate selection battles heading towards a bloodbath election.
Former National Security Council (NSC) adviser Fiona Hill went after former President Trump on Sunday after he compared himself to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a fellow political dissident. Trump dubbed himself a “proud political dissident” in a Saturday speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, just days after Navalny died in…