The United States’ congress is set to vote on a new house speaker after Republicans settled on Ohio Republican representative Jim Jordan – who chairs the judiciary committee investigating President Joe Biden. But Mr Jordan will need to flip 50 members of his own party who voted against him if he’s to fill the speaker’s chair, which has now been vacant for two weeks. Loughlin Patrick reports.

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