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He adds that he hopes Mordaunt will pick up the phone to Rishi today in order to strike a deal. I’ve spoken to some Tory MPs who were just at a meeting of One Nation Conservative MPs - who sit more to the centre wing of the party. Mark Francois says Rishi Sunak did not commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence when he met the group earlier. irannews.ru But another Mordaunt backer, Conservative MP Heather Wheeler, insists that the Tory party needs her "fresh face", rather than "somebody with fingers on the knife of getting rid of other people". But they never made it this far. Twenty miles on, a rusty watermelon monument marks the tide mark of Moscow's advance. There is significant military activity. A logistical supply line forms an artery towards Ukraine's continued counteroffensive. Now China is saying it out loud, and its "wolf warrior" diplomats, named after a patriotic action film franchise, are going on the verbal offensive. In China this is hugely popular. Over the next six months I pedalled across the mountains of Yunnan, wandered the imperial palace in Beijing, and rode a train hauled by two soot-blackened steam engines far west into the deserts of Xinjiang. The landscapes were sublime but the poverty grinding. Everywhere I went people told me how "backward" China was compared to the West. But there were hints of change. "I thought, 'what have I done? I've made a film that's helping rape culture'." Fighting is starting to concentrate around the city of Kherson. There's an almost constant rumbling of artillery about 10 miles (16km) away.