UK correspondent Harriet Line looks at the comments from Britain's Defence Minister Alistair Carns that the British Army would be wiped out in as little as six months if force to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict.
The BBC is engulfed in a row over Masterchef presenter Gregg Wallace and the two-child cap on benefits will be scrapped in Scotland - piling fresh pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to end the policy.
Harriet Line is Deputy Political Editor of the Daily Mail.