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EXC: Humza Yousaf has ended the Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Greens.

He is understood to have told Green leaders this morning.

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Deputy PMQs review 👇
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“Today was different. Rayner herself became the target.”

🖊️ Freddie Hayward
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Deputy PMQs review 👇
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“Her attempt to focus on the Conservatives’ U-turn on banning no-fault evictions was no match for the gift of political scandal.”

🖊️ Freddie Hayward
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Labour’s 2029 general election strategy is already set: “we said it would take ten years of national renewal, let us finish the job”.

As I reported last week, some SNP MPs in Westminster think a drubbing at the general election could be the trigger to remove Humza Yousaf as leader.
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“One SNP MP mused to me recently that a shoddy performance at the general election – securing fewer seats than Labour would count as shoddy – could trigger a move against Yousaf’s leadership.”

📫 Today’s Morning Call with Freddie Hayward
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New The New Statesman Pod episode! You Ask Us about Liz Truss, and Rachel Cunliffe and I ask Freddie Hayward about what he saw at NatCon in Brussels:

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David Lammy’s Foreign Affairs essay all but admits that Britain is in relative decline. Piece 👇
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Hello fresh stories Times Radio

8pm Sir Edward Leigh MP 🚬
8.15pm Michael Oren🇮🇱
8.20pm Freddie Hayward Melanie Phillips #NatCon
8.35pm Jessica Rawnsley Long Covid💥
8.45pm Nina de Roy dos Santos fugitives💥
8.50pm Jeremy Griffin🗞️
9pm Yasmin alibhai-brown Peter Hitchens🗣️
9.35pm Rosamund Dean
9.50pm Matt Lawton🏃

Relatively small protest around twenty metres from the Nat Con venue earlier.

Belgium PM condemns the actions of the police.

“Nigel Farage has never looked more satisfied.”

Freddie Hayward reports from Brussels on the police vs the NatCons. newstatesman.com/world/europe/2…

Liz Truss is very self-aware despite the prevailing view. She just doesn’t care.
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