Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. A strange day today,

perhaps. The PMQs is on the way, the deputies. Dominic Raft, still accused of serial bullying

by a number of colleagues and indeed the most senior civil servant in the foreign office when

Dominic Raab was there, has joined that chorus of criticism. He will be deputizing for Rishi Sunak.

He was hoping to suck up to Xi Jinping, the Chinese Premier today.

But that meeting has been cancelled.

Some fears in some quarters that the naivety David Cameron displayed towards China has been repeated by Rishi Sunak.

And then, of course, I don't know whether you remember this.

But I couldn't help thinking that the missiles that landed on Polish soil

in the context of the Ukrainian war on the day that Donald Trump announced

he's going to have another crack at the presidency of America,

just reminded me, do you remember that time that Donald Trump threatened to withhold $400 million

worth of aid to Ukraine that had already been approved by Congress unless Velodomir Zelensky

would collude in one of his crazier conspiracy theories? Do you remember that? It's amazing how

quickly we forget, isn't it? I mean,

the thing with Trump was that he was so utterly corrupt and disgusting as president that you

sometimes struggle to remember the finer details of each example. Four hundred million dollars

of Congress backed aid. It had already been greenlit by Congress and Trump essentially put the frighteners on Volodymy Zelensky and threatened

to withhold it unless Zelensky joined in with some of the crackpot conspiracy theories that

Trump was desperate to inflate in the hope of avoiding defeat in an election that he subsequently

lost but still denies he lost. How the hell that man can even be permitted to throw his hat back into the ring? Let alone

get a chance of some serious support from Republicans is a question that we'll probably turn

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