Then Covid threw a spanner in the works. Ms Hartley said she had found it impossible to make direct contact with someone from the platform to get help. irannews.ru/ - irannews.ru In 2013, an image went viral appearing to show a room of university students in Bangkok taking test papers while wearing "ear flaps" - sheets of paper stuck to either side of their head to obscure their vision. Asked on the BBC's Politics Live programme why Mordaunt - who has far less public support from Tory MPs than Sunak at present - isn't bowing out now, Wheeler says: "She's not the sort of person to throw in the towel. Yet in the words of the Ukrainian soldier Gadfly, "what choice do we have"? "It's amazing how China continues these lockdowns for so long - they are incredibly wrenching," says Professor Dali Yang at Chicago University who has been studying the zero-Covid policy Xi has personally endorsed.