MondayThe Donald Trump groping tape did have one immediate effect in the UK. It caused MPs Iain Duncan Smith, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Michael Fabricant to start backtracking on their support for the Republican presidential hopeful. When the Tories decided Gove’s future lay in writing newspaper columns, Rees-Mogg bet the house on the completely useless Andrea Leadsom. Mind you, Trump seems more than capable of losing the election on his own. Not even Sir Jake – as he will no doubt soon be called – could compete with Sir Gerald Howarth for sycophancy.

Source: The Guardian October 14, 2016 12:06 UTC