Remarkable news.sky.com/story/politics…

Voters at Milton Road Library get to experience the rare sight of voting from the back of a car as we've had problems getting into the building … hopefully we'll be in soon but for now our polling staff are doing a great job ensuring early voters can still cast their vote!

For everyone in London woken up by thunder and lightning this morning, it's a line of storms 100 miles across and won't be stopping any time soon
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This race has flown under the radar.lot of votes in York which is pretty Lab leaning and Labour has won by-election in N Yorks on a huge swing. Sunak losing new Mayoralty in his own backyard would be a big story

Tory resistance to the PM's war on the so-called sick note culture is beginning... Suspect it could get nasty

'Any donations will be declared in due course'

Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden is asked if his party received a further £5m from Frank Hester - the party donor embroiled in a race row

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Humza Yousaf's resignation has once again thrown Scottish politics into turmoil.

In our Slow Newscast, Cat Neilan explored his predecessors, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, and how their relationship breakdown set the scene for Yousaf's short stint.

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“He’s only been in power a year… as political careers go, it’s not exactly vintage.”

On The News Meeting, Tortoise political editor Cat Neilan assesses what Humza Yousaf’s resignation means for the future of Scotland.

Listen: lnk.to/kaNljm

I wouldn't necessarily believe anything Salmond says but if this is true then he means that the 'deal' was blocked by the people who know him best.

No, this is the epitaph.

He left, as he started, giving journalists the gift of the most inadvertently insightful quotes

Quite the epitaph

.Ipsos Scotland polling in the immediate wake of Nicola Sturgeon's resignation last year did not point to an obvious successor - Humza Yousaf was 5th in terms of who people thought would make a good FM, with Kate Forbes and John Swinney tied at the top.

“I wrote this book because I felt my mother’s murder was becoming bigger than her life”

Hurrah to Paul Caruana Galizia on winning the Cornelius Ryan Prize for Best Non Fiction Book on International Affairs with A DEATH IN MALTA in New York last night at the Overseas Press Awards

Now look at the correct data and while the quantum is lower, the trend is VERY clear.
No exports from Az to Russia. Then sanctions begin. Then exports rise at unprecedented rates.
NB there's no way of knowing from this data whether these are the same cars coming in from the UK.

James Cleverly said the Criminal Justice Bill has become 'a Christmas tree' that MPs are dressing in a pre-election rush... But Labour claim his comments are a pretext to junk the entire piece of legislation to avoid (another) Tory rebellion

Me and Phoebe Davis for Tortoise 👇

NEW 🚨 The UK's Home Secretary has ruled out a vote on women being jailed under a Victorian-era law that criminalises abortion before the GE w/Cat Neilan
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If the two revised amendments pass (as I expect), it’s back to the Commons and then to us. Expect the denouement around 10-11 tonight. Will there be the votes then for yet more pings and pongs? My guess at this point is not - tho there’s plenty of fuel in the tank on my benches!

Here we go. More voting on the Rwanda Bill House of Lords. Now that Commons have kicked out our two amendments (surprise) I expect a short debate chez nous from 7-7.30ish followed by votes on variants of the same two points. Will be discussing shortly with Andrew Marr LBC