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Earlier this week former minister Simon Clarke wrote in the Telegraph, the Conservative party faces an electoral "massacre" under Rishi Sunak's leadership and warned “extinction is a very real possibility for our party”. “He does not get what Britain needs. And he is not listening to what the British people want.” and “Instead of conviction, we have convention.”

A listener writes in to ask: with all the disarray and rebellion in the Tory party, what's the likelihood of a confidence vote anytime soon?

Anoosh and Freddie also review whether the are Conservatives 'salting the earth' or 'laying traps for Labour' .

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On Piers Morgan Uncensored: Stargazing superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson returns to Uncensored with a cosmic take on Artificial Intelligence and more... and Benjamin Netanyahu doubles down on refusing to accept there must be a Palestinian state. With his popularity plunging and reputation for security in ruins, has he given up on peace? Piers discusses with Mustafa Barghouti & Douglas Murray

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Day 657.

Today, we bring you the news from Ukraine, Russia and Brussels as missiles rain down on Kyiv, the EU meets for a high stakes meeting on Ukraine and Vladimir Putin hosts an annual phone-in from Moscow. 

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David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @DJKnowles22 on Twitter.

Dom Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.

Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.

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Is it time for Rishi Sunak to condemn Boris Johnson? Is Keir Starmer right to dream of Margaret Thatcher? And why is Danny being fair to Ed Miliband?

Matt Chorley and political masterminds Peter Mandelson, Polly Mackenzie and Daniel Finkelstein discuss how to deal with the ghost of a former party leader.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, San Francisco has been a dystopian wasteland filled with homeless drug addicts for many years. Yet with the communist leader of China coming to town, it has managed to make itself look clean and presentable. This proves that these problems are easy to solve, if only our leaders had the will to solve them. Also, Tim Scott ends his presidential campaign, which comes as news to millions of people who didn't know he had a presidential campaign. Vivek Ramaswamy announces his plan to fire 50 percent of the federal government workforce. I'll explain why that doesn't go far enough. And we're being told that "climate anxiety" is on the rise? What is that? And aren't there much better things to be anxious about?

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As Maui residents continue their recovery efforts, two wealthy celebrities open their checkbooks, how old is too old? Several aging politicians have suffered troubling public episodes recently, and CNN taps a former New York Times and BBC executive to head the network. Get the facts first with Morning Wire.

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Gov. Christie joins Charlie Sykes to explain campaign strategy, his error in judgment in 2016, and how Trump knows he lost. Plus, why Trump voters expect him to join the candidate debates, and the worst manager in the history of the presidency.

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As a long-awaited investigation finds Boris Johnson knowingly misled parliament – and disrespected its processes – Anoosh Chakelian, Rachel Wearmouth and Freddie Hayward discuss what the report means for Johnson and his party.

They go through what the report found, how Boris Johnson reacted and whether this is ultimately good or bad politically for Rishi Sunak.

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In today's episode, Andy & DJ discuss Target losing $9 billion in the week following a boycott due to LGBTQ-friendly kid's clothing, the Black Lives Matter Foundation going broke after raising $90 million, and Microsoft claiming that Chinese Government-backed hackers compromised critical U.S. cyber infrastructure.

Boris Johnson told the parliamentary inquiry that he HAD misled parliament, but he hadn't meant to.

His repeated defence was that he hadn't been advised what he was saying might be wrong (he had). And that other people hadn't told him that rules might have been broken (they had). He insisted that the leaving parties he'd attended had been essential work and berated Downing Street itself for having too many corridors to make parties safer.

Sir Bernard Jenkin led the charge asking what he would have told a press conference if the rest of the country had wanted to hold leaving parties too. Now the committee goes away to consider its findings and its verdict. We dissect the afternoon and that Stormont Brake vote that briefly interrupted proceedings.

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Rishi Sunak is poised to become Britain's new prime minister, Jordan Klepper probes Americans about the likelihood of civil war, and actor John David Washington discusses "The Piano Lesson."

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Herschel Walker, the former football star who is running for the Senate, is, according to the Times political reporter Maya King, a “demigod in Georgia sports and in Georgia culture.”

The midterm election in that state is crucial — it could determine whether Democrats keep control of the Senate. Mr. Walker’s candidacy, however, has been tainted by a slew of stories about his character, including claims that he paid for an abortion for a former girlfriend despite publicly opposing the procedure.

Guest: Maya King, a politics reporter covering the South for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• How Republicans cast aside concerns and learned to love Mr. Walker.
• Will any of the allegations against Mr. Walker actually matter?

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

In today's episode, Andy & DJ discuss the Buccaneers potentially cutting WR Antonio Brown after discovering he wasn't vaccinated, Philadelphia DA Krasner refusing to admit the city has a crime crisis after record homicide numbers, and the protest in DC that shut down traffic in the nation's capital.