Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, who began a five-year sentence, for conspiring to illegally raise campaign funds, at La Santé prison in Paris this week. Sarkozy, who maintains his innocence, said he would take two books with him: a biography of Jesus and Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, in which the hero escapes from an island prison, then seeks revenge.
George Abaraonye, who has been ousted as president-elect of the Oxford Union over comments that appeared to celebrate the death of US activist Charlie Kirk. Abaraonye had reportedly sent a WhatsApp message reading, “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s f**king go”. Of 1,746 votes cast, 1,228 members elected to remove him.
Reform UK, which suspended four councillors after a video of a heated virtual council meeting was leaked.…