Thursday: The UK home secretary has been forced to resign after an email indiscretion, throwing Liz Truss’s government into fresh chaos. Plus: how to keep a cake intact on its maiden voyage
ood morning. The chaos at the top of Liz Truss’s government in the UK is spreading with the resignation of one of her most senior ministers, who delivered a scathing parting shot at her boss. In Australia, a meeting this weekend between our prime minister and Japan’s is expected to see a new security deal signed. And there are fresh fears over the disease Japanese encephalitis, spread by mosquitoes that can spawn in flood waters.
Japan and Australia will share intelligence assessments about China’s military buildup and intentions. Japan’s ambassador also hinted that Australia was likely to be invited to the G7 summit in Hiroshima next year, saying its participation would be a “natural” step at a time of worsening tensions in the region.
Warming temperatures combined with flood waters could leave almost 750,000 Australians vulnerable to Japanese encephalitiswas confined to Asia and far-northern Australia. A new study has modelled how the disease could spread, especially in the vicinity of piggeries . Suella Braverman has been forced to resign as UK home secretary, one of the most senior ministerial roles in government., who was fired as transport secretary by Truss six weeks ago as he had supported her opponent in the Tory leadership contest.
In a pointed resignation letter, which contrasted her actions with those of Truss, Braverman wrote: “Pretending we haven’t made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can’t see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign.”The SES controller for Rochester says ‘every single house’ in the town has had some level of flooding.
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