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Sir Simon Clarke, left, has called for Rishi Sunak, right, to resign. Credit: Getty

Explainer Simon Clarke calls for Rishi Sunak to resign - how can Tories oust PM?

Britain's newly appointed Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Claire Coutinho leaves Number 10 Downing Street in London on August 31, 2023. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Who is Claire Coutinho, the new Energy and Net Zero Secretary?

Grant Shapps leaves Downing Street after being appointed Defence Secretary.

Who is the wife of Grant Shapps and what is her new career?

Claire Coutinho leaves Downing Street, central London, after being appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's mini-reshuffle (Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Breaking Climate campaigners call on new energy secretary to 'step up' net zero game

Grant Shapps looks set to become the new Defence Secretary. Credit: Getty

Politics as it happened: Grant Shapps is named new Defence Secretary

Grant Shapps: Who is new Defence Secretary replacing Ben Wallace & why has Rishi Sunak appointed him?

Explainer Who is Grant Shapps - the UK's new Defence Secretary?

Vadym Prystaiko, the Ukrainian ambassador to the UK, has been sacked days after he appeared to criticise President Volodymyr Zelensky's response to the UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. (Credit: AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine's ambassador to the UK sacked - who is Vadym Prystaiko?

Ben Wallace will step down from his role at the next cabinet reshuffle

Full list of Tory MPs stepping down ahead of next general election

Ben Wallace will step down from his role at the next cabinet reshuffle

Full list of Tory MPs stepping down ahead of next general election

Ben Wallace will step down as defence secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle

Breaking Ben Wallace to step down as defence secretary

Ben Wallace will step down as defence secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle

Breaking Ben Wallace to step down as defence secretary

Russia threatens military response after UK sends missiles to Ukraine

Sami Atabani fears for his elderly aunt Maureen and cousin Farid - who is disabled - on the thousand-kilometre bus trip out of the war-torn Sudanese capital, as well as another cousin's young sons (Photos: Supplied)

Scared, 'distressed' Brits who fled Sudan capital fear no help from UK

Prince Harry has come under criticism from Defence Secretary Ben Wallace (Getty)

Why has Prince Harry been criticised by Ben Wallace?

A picture of the alleged ‘spy balloon’ captured by the Billings Gazette (Photo: Billings Gazette)

PM vows to do ‘whatever it takes’ to keep UK safe from spy balloons

Rishi Sunak has resisted calls by his former boss Boris Johnson for the UK to send Ukraine fighter jets. (Credit: Getty Images)

Explainer Sunak resists Johnson’s plea for fighter jets in Ukraine
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged the UK to send Ukraine fighter jets while on a US tour
Heather Carrick

A Brimstone missile being prepared for deployment to Syria at RAF Marham in Norfolk in 2015 (Photo: PHILIP COBURN/AFP via Getty Images)

How many Brimstone missiles is the UK sending to Ukraine - and cost

An inquiry will look into claims of wrongdoing by UK troops in Afghanistan.

Probe to look at claims against British troops in Afghanistan

The national flagship was going to be a replacement for the Royal Yacht Britannia. Credit: Getty Images

Defence Secretary sinks Boris Johnson’s royal yacht plans

A member of the Ukrainian police force stands guard next to smoke as Kyiv is rocked by explosions during a drone attack in the early morning on 17 October 2022 (Photo: Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)

Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of ‘dirty bomb’ plans

Clockwise from top left: Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt, Penny Mordaunt, and Ben Wallace could all find themselves in No 10 sooner than they had thought (Photos: Getty Images)

Bookies favourites to be next Prime Minister have been revealed

Four Sukhoi Su-27 jets from the Russian Knights aerobatic team. (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian fighter jet ‘released missile’ near RAF stealth plane

Moscow launched a wave of deadly missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s cities this week (Photo: Getty Images)

UK to send missiles to Ukraine to defend against Russian airstrikes

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Sabre rattling meaning: is Putin rattling the sabre over Ukraine?

Vladimir Putin has warned Russia would use “all the means” at its disposal to protect its territory (Composite: Mark Hall / NationalWorld)

Putin issues nuclear warning to West as 300,000 reservists called up

Soldiers of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Interior Affairs and the Federal Security Service attend the opening ceremony of the All-Russian shooting competition ‘Forever Alive’ in Saint Petersburg on 25 August 2022 (Photo: OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP via Getty Images)

Mobilisation: what does Russia’s ‘partial military mobilisation’ mean?

Ben Wallace MP, Secretary of State for Defence delivers his keynote speech during the Conservative Party Spring Conference at the Blackpool Winter Gardens on March 19, 2022 in Blackpool, England (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Ben Wallace MP: could defence secretary replace Boris Johnson as PM?
According to a recent YouGov poll, Ben Wallace has surfaced as a favourite amongst Conservatives to replace Boris Johnson, pulling slightly ahead of Penny Mordaunt
Rhona Shennan

An air-launched ground attack Brimstone missile, developed by MBDA for Britain’s Royal Air Force (Photo: Adobe)

What are Brimstone missiles? RAF anti-ship missiles could help Ukraine

Stormer armoured vehicles provide a mobile platform for the Starstreak High Velocity Missile (HVM) system (Photo: Adobe)

UK to send Stormer anti-aircraft vehicles to Ukraine - what are they?

Starstreak missiles could be sent to Ukraine from the UK in the fightback against Russia. (Credit: Getty)

UK could send starstreak missiles to support Ukraine’s defences

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is to address MPs this afternoon.
He is pictured in February at a press conference before the start of the Russian invasion following crisis talks with Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Ukraine: President Zelensky to address MPs in the House of Commons

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Where is Kharkiv? Location of explosions in Ukraine’s ‘second city’

A schoolgirl called Polina is among those who have been killed after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Schoolgirl and her parents killed by Russian sabotage group

Ukrainian service personnel sit in the back of military truck in the town of Avdiivka, on the front-line with Russia-backed separatists (Picture: Aleksey Filippov/AFP via Getty Images)

Warning of potential ‘humanitarian crisis’ if Russia invades Ukraine

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace warns a Russian attack is ‘highly likely’. (Picture: PA)

Defence Secretary warns Russian attack on Ukraine ‘highly likely’

Ukrainian servicemen receiving a delivery this week of FGM-148 Javelins, a man-portable anti-tank missile provided by US as part of a military support amid the growing crisis.

Foreign Office urges British nationals to leave Ukraine immediately

Boris Johnson authorised the evacuation of a charity’s animals from Afghanistan, leaked emails suggest (PA)

Emails suggest PM ‘authorised’ evacuation of animals from Afghanistan

Troops to be deployed in London to help NHS amid staff shortages

No fuel at Sainsbury's in Farlington, Portsmouth, as queues build at the petrol station on September 25, 2021. Picture: Richard Lemmer

Military drivers to deliver fuel from Monday - the latest situation

Some parts of the country have seen petrol stations closing due to panic-buying.

Will the army deliver fuel? How troops could help with petrol crisis

A line of vehicles queue to fill up at a Tesco petrol station in Camberley, west London, (image: Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

Army tanker drivers will be put on standby amid fuel supply issues

Pen Farthing ‘couldn’t let dogs be shot by the Taliban’

Pen Farthing apologised for leaving an expletive-laden message for a government aide (Photo: PA)

Pen Farthing apologises for language in voicemail to government aide

British ambassador arrives home as UK evacuation mission ends in Kabul

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said Ben Wallace said there is just hours left in the UK’s mission to help people flee the Taliban (image: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK enters final stages of Afghanistan evacuation from Kabul airport

President Joe Biden is not expected to continue evacuation efforts past August 31 (image: Drew Angerer/Getty)

Joe Biden ‘unlikely’ to back extension for Kabul evacuation

A US Marine passes water to evacuees during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport during the evacuation on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Isaiah Campbell/U.S. Marine Corps/Getty)

More than 7,000 evacuated from Afghanistan by UK military mission

Boris Johnson has said he would continue to try to convince the White House to extend the exit deadline (Getty)

PM to press for Afghan rescue extension in G7 meeting with Biden

Afghans gather on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Seven dead outside Kabul International airport - MoD

The British men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country while serving in Afghanistan (Composite: Mark Hall / Ministry of Defence)

Remembering the 456 British troops who lost their lives in Afghanistan

Support Our Gurkhas protesters continue their hunger strike as they demonstrate for equal pensions outside Downing Street in central London (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Why are Gurkhas on hunger strike outside Downing Street?

Afghan interpreters who supported British troops have been left in fear for their lives (Photo: Getty Images)

Afghan interpreters implore UK government to come to their aid

People are attempting to flee the country following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul.

Veteran who lost both legs in Afghanistan says it was ‘for nothing’

A Taliban fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan’s third biggest city (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

600 UK soldiers to be deployed to help Britons leave Afghanistan

The documents are said to contain details about HMS Defender and the military (Photo: Getty Images)

Sensitive Ministry of Defence documents found by member of public at a bus stop

HMS Defender, Russian forces fired warning shots at the Royal Navy destroyer after it entered the country's territorial waters in the Black Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry has said

UK denies Russia fired warning shots at Royal Navy warship in waters off Crimea

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