In today’s newsletter: As China’s president heads into his third consecutive term, the country marches into the unknown. What can we expect next?
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Good morning. Yesterday, Jeremy Hunt enacted what the Guardian’s political correspondent, Peter Walker, described as a “polite coup”. Hunt gutted Liz Truss’s mini-budget, discarding all but two elements of her plan and, in a final blow to her legitimacy, scaled back the energy package that Truss announced in September. The energy price guarantee will only be universal until April – rather than 2024 – making a mockery of Conservative party taunts at the paucity of the Labour offering. So come April, voters will be facing higher mortgage payments, higher energy bills, and rising inflation all at the same time.
Go to the Guardian front page to read more about Truss’s desperate attempts to keep her job as prime minister. Today’s newsletter will, in contrast, take a close look at a leader who has no problem staying in power.
NHS | The head of the General Medical Council, Charlie Massey, said that unnecessary “red tape” has meant that thousands of doctors are being stopped from working in overstretched GP surgeries across the UK.
Russia | At least 13 people have died after a Russian warplane, that took off near the border with Ukraine, crashed into a residential building in the Russian town of Yeysk. The crash happened on the same day that Russia used nearly 30 kamikaze drones to launch a sustained air attack on Kyiv.
China | The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, is being urged to take action after a pro-democracy protester was reportedly dragged inside the grounds of the Chinese consulate in Manchester and attacked.
Technology | The rightwing social media network Parler has announced that rapper Kanye West is buying the site. The move to buy Parler comes after a series of antisemitic outbursts on social media that led to his account being blocked from posting on Instagram and Twitter.
Greece | The shocking discovery of 92 naked refugees, including children, on Greece’s land border with Turkey has prompted urgent calls for an investigation from the United Nations.
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