How did a far-right, pro-torture, dictatorship-praising populist become Brazil’s president-elect? The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, describes his run-in with Bolsonaro and the fallout from his election. Plus: Polly Toynbee on her Newsnight confrontation with the UK’s former chancellor George Osborne

For his 27 years in Brazil’s congress, Jair Bolsonaro was a mostly marginal figure who made occasional headlines with his extreme views on the LGBT community, minorities and women. But after one of the most vicious and divisive elections in the country’s history, Bolsonaro has emerged as Brazil’s president-elect.

The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, has followed every twist of the 2018 campaign, including a surreal encounter with Bolsonaro in the Amazon. He traces his rise from the military to the presidency, and looks ahead to why his victory is so alarming for indigenous groups, environmental activists and his political opponents.

Also today: Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee tore into the UK’s former chancellor George Osborne on the BBC’s Newsnight this week. She told him his ‘treatment of the poorest people in this country has been despicable’. As the government attempts to move on from austerity, Polly argues that Osborne’s cuts will continue to bite for years to come.

