A safe Tory seat now has a Lib Dem MP with a majority of more than 8,000 votes. What explains the result? Is it just a range of local factors, as the Tories claim? Or has Boris Johnson alienated voters in the South East of England? Plus – Tim and Iain assess the state of Unionism in Northern Ireland, and the prospects for the England v Scotland clash in the Euros.
Why Putin has resisted using Ukraine’s Kursk offensive to call for greater Russian sacrifices
Putin has missed an obvious opportunity to label Kyiv’s surprise incursion as the modern day equivalent to Operation Barbarossa.