Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

And in New York, I'm John Fassman.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Mexico's president has long loved to feed powers to the country's armed forces.

Now they can share in the profits from the juicy contracts being handed out.

We look into the growing worries that the army is swiftly getting just too much power.

And 50 years ago a novel called The Stepford Wives hit the shelves and pretty much defined

feminist horror.

It's still a big influence on that genre, especially as the rights that women won

back then seem to be increasingly under threat today.

After a dramatic weekend contest full of maneuvers and intrigue, Britain will today get a new

Prime Minister.

It's third in seven weeks.

Members of Parliament belonging to the ruling Conservative Party were tasked with nominating

a candidate for the leadership by 2pm on Monday.

For a while, it looked like there might be three in the running.

A previous incumbent Boris Johnson, who won a landslide election victory in 2019 but was

forced to resign from office amid scandal, looked poised to make a comeback.

But he withdrew.

Still, nobody knew for sure until the last minute whether it would be a race between former

Chancellor Rishi Sunak and leader of the House of Commons Penny Morton or whether a single

candidate would prevail.

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