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Portrait of the week: Sturgeon’s missing WhatsApps and Trump’s latest victory 

issue 27 January 2024

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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, told the House of Commons that, in taking part in a second American air attack on Houthi positions near Sanaa, Britain had ‘acted in line with international law, in self defence, and in response to an immediate threat’. This time the leader of the opposition had not been informed before the attack. Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, said: ‘We back this targeted action.’ Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton, the Foreign Secretary, set off to visit the Middle East. The Commons Procedure Committee decided to recommend that the Foreign Secretary should in general answer questions in the Commons by being summoned to the Bar of the House.

Sir Simon Clarke, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, said that the Conservatives ‘will be massacred unless they get rid of Rishi Sunak’. Others called the idea madness.

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