Could Nikki Haley become the first female US president? 

Madame president

If Donald Trump stumbles before election day, could Nikki Haley end up becoming the first female US president? Hillary Clinton failed as the first female presidential candidate in 2016, but she wasn’t the first to stand on a presidential ticket: that honour belongs to the now-forgotten Geraldine A. Ferraro, who was picked by Walter Mondale to be his Democratic running mate in the 1984 election. Mondale had hoped to win over women voters, but his tactic appeared to backfire when a poll soon after her selection showed only 22 per cent of women voters approved of Mondale’s choice and three in five of all voters believed he had only chosen Ferraro to please feminist groups, not for her innate abilities. In the event, Mondale was soundly beaten by Ronald Reagan standing for his second term.

Steel trap

Port Talbot’s blast furnaces are to be replaced by an electric arc furnace to recycle scrap steel.