Your morning briefing: What you should know for Wednesday, November 20

PM narrowly won head-to-head clash with Corbyn, snap poll shows

Boris Johnson narrowly won his televised head-to-head clash with Jeremy Corbyn last night, according to a snap poll.

The Prime Minister edged a snap YouGov poll 51-49 but Labour figures were pleased with the showing of their leader.

Mr Corbyn described the PM's pledge to "get Brexit done" by the end of January as "nonsense", while Mr Johnson suggested his rival was "not fit to lead our country".

Mourinho confirmed as Spurs manager

Jose Mourinho has been confirmed as Tottenham's new head coach following the sensational sacking of Mauricio Pochettino yesterday evening.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy took the decision to sack Pochettino following a poor run of results this season, ending the coach's five-and-a-half years at the club.

Spurs have moved quickly to replace Pochettino, with former Chelsea and Manchester United boss Mourinho appointed hours later on a deal until the end of the 2022-23 season.

Millane 'was naive and trusting in the online sex community'

Grace Millane was “naive and trusting” in the online sex community, her murder trial in New Zealand has been told.

The British backpacker gave a list of her fetishes to a man she met on a BDSM dating website, the court heard before the defence closed its case.

A user of the site said he had previously connected with Miss Millane, from Essex, and had his police statement read in court.

A 27-year-old man is on trial accused of murdering Miss Millane on December 1 last year, the night before her 22nd birthday, in his hotel room in Auckland.

His defence alleged that she died accidentally after being consensually choked during sex.

25 migrants found in container bound for England

A group of 25 migrants have been found in a refrigerated container on a ferry travelling from the Netherlands to England.

The ferry was not far off the Dutch coast en route to Felixtowe, Suffolk, when the discovery was made at around 5pm yesterday.

The Britannia Seaways ship returned to the port of Vlaardingen, near Rotterdam, after the stowaways were discovered.

Amazon and eBay accused of failing to stop listing unsafe toys

Amazon and eBay have failed to take "basic steps" to stop the listing of toys that appear to have been declared unsafe, Which? has warned.

The watchdog said it found evidence of toys listed for sale appeared to have already been flagged by the EU's alert system for dangerous products.

eBay said it takes appropriate action against sellers who breach its policies or the law.

Amazon said the products in question are no longer available.

On this day...

1789: New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1818: Simon Bolivar declared Venezuela independent of Spain.

1906: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce collaborated to form the car company, Rolls-Royce Ltd. On the same day in 1931, the company bought Bentley Motors.

1944: After five years of blackout, the lights were switched on again in Piccadilly, the Strand and Fleet Street.

1945: The Nuremberg War Crimes trial of Nazis, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, began. It lasted 218 days.

1947: Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. It was the most glamorous royal occasion since before the war and the BBC covered it in 42 different languages.

1951: Snowdonia in Wales was designated a National Park.

1979: Anthony Blunt, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was stripped of his knighthood after being exposed as the Fourth Man in the Burgess, Maclean and Philby spy scandal.

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