📈The latest Sky News poll tracker puts Labour on a 21-point lead over the Conservatives, with the latter falling below 23%📉

Lab 43.8 (41-45) 
Con 22.9 (19-26) 
Reform 12.4 (8-14) 
Lib Dems 9.4 (8-11) 
Green 6.0 (3-9) 
SNP 3.1 (2-4)

Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has told Sky News his party will not be backing a motion of no-confidence in the Scottish government which is due to be voted on tomorrow

NEW: Kate Forbes MSP tells Connor Gillies there is “a lot of support” for her across SNP as she confirms she is considering standing

Asked about Swinney coronation: “the membership need to be behind the next leader and process needs to reflect that”

Decision expected with 24 hours

🇬🇧🇮🇪Are Anglo-Irish relations at their lowest point since the fraught and fractious Brexit negotiation?

NEW: Motion of no confidence in the Scottish government tabled by the Scottish Labour Party will be debated and voted on tomorrow

But while the Scottish Tories and Lib Dems have backed the motion, without the support of the Greens it will be defeated

Is it just me - or does anyone else find it irrationally odd/disconcerting when tea comes in a glass cup? ☕️

Glasgow is riddled with potholes and big ones at that

SNP in proper bind this morning as they search for new leader

John Swinney is the continuity candidate at a time when most accept the party needs to change

Kate Forbes MSP holds views many within the party dislike, fearing could alienate voters

Doesn’t appear to be anyone else

Taoiseach Simon Harris tells Sky News the UK must respect an existing arrangement to take back asylum seekers amid a row over migrants crossing the border from Northern Ireland

'We also have a legitimate expectation that agreements between our two countries are honoured'

John Swinney 'best person we have' to take over as first minister says Stephen Flynn MP

“These are serious times, serious times deserve serious politicians and they don't get much more serious than John Swinney”

This as some Kate Forbes MSP supporters claim stitch up is underway

Yousaf says he’s stepping down when Scottish independence 'feels frustratingly close'

'As the world watches on, let me say to my SNP family, I will always be with you'

'Independence feels frustratingly close. Believe me, no one feels that frustration more than the leader ...”