Funding for Ukraine could get shot down in war over budgets

THE farcical Tory leadership battle and the TV comedy show Fawlty Towers had one thing in common.

Nobody mentioned the war. Britain's proxy war against Russia, which threatens to become a nuclear conflict.

Now that the Conservatives have called a truce in their civil war, our new Prime Minister must fight on the Ukraine front.

As Chancellor under Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak faithfully stumped up military and economic aid, so far costing £3.8billion in less than six months.

Entering No 10, he phoned President Zelensky in Kyiv to promise policy continuation, amid heavy fighting in Russian-occupied Kherson.