England cricket star Monty Panesar set to stand as MP for George Galloway's Workers Party
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Hainault Tube Station has been closed by police following a ‘serious incident’

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🗳 Ben Houchen’s mayoralty is the one loss that Tory MPs considering their Prime Minister’s future have said they will not be able to stomach

🔎 Big Read by Rachel Wearmouth

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Good piece from Isabel Hardman

‘You can't force yourself to be mentally well enough to work - I tried’ inews.co.uk/opinion/cant-f…

Sunak needs his Tory poster boy mayor to win Tees Valley, but it’s looking tight inews.co.uk/news/sunak-nee…

🚨personal news 🚨

I am now the owner of a campervan 🚐

Humza Yousaf confirms he will stand down as FM: “In ending the Bute House agreement, I clearly underestimated the level of hurt & upset that caused Green colleagues”

Could Scottish Greens change their minds? Not sounding likely…

Lorna Slater says they’ll vote no confidence: “I cannot imagine anything at this point that could change that position”

Talks of “spectacular” breach of trust and “broken relationship”

Rachel Wearmouth Definitely possible will do a wider methodological thread and is also driven almost entirely by propensity to vote, if Labour (as you’d expect) have a good turnout operation then this wouldn’t be this close

Reckon this is overestimating Driscoll’s vote

🗣️ “I think the 2016 referendum is going to be as unsuccessful as the 1975 one'.

👉 Sir John Curtice predicts that there may be another EU referendum before 2040.

👀 Catch up on last night's Unlocked here youtube.com/watch?v=W4C4fA…

Very combative exchange between the PM & Sky’s Trevor Phillips. He only picks out the London, West Midlands & Tees Valley mayorals to talk about. Refuses to say there is any acceptable level of small boats (gets quite grumpy about being asked) & doesn’t rule out a July election

Match Of The Day time 🥳⚫️⚪️

Having a former health minister defect to Labour when this is the backdrop means it is devastating news for Rishi Sunak inews.co.uk/news/health/bo…

I spent a week as a Deliveroo rider. And learnt a lot.
First up, Deliveroo likes to claim you should earn at least the minimum wage of £11.44 while working. Me?
I worked for 22hrs 50mins, rode 105 miles, did 27 drop offs and earned £120.38.
That works out at £5.28 an hour🧵

PopCon standard bearer apparently not very popular

More Tees, anyone?
New Private Eye Magazine reveals how the loudly-tumpeted plan to bring steelmaking back to Teesside has been captured by the same private interests that are cashing in on Teesworks. Online version here; full story in the mag.
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EXCLUSIVE: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar to lay motion of no confidence in the Scottish government this afternoon.

Select committee calls for Teesworks deal scrutiny
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EXC: Humza Yousaf is considering his position as first minister ahead of a crunch confidence vote caused by him sacking the Greens from government
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