How it started // how it’s going

15 key battlegrounds and their timings on election night

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🗞️ Survival plan: is Rishi ready for the rebels, asks Katy Balls

✍️ In the mag:

• Will RFK Jr decide the US election?
• Joseph Stiglitz: ‘Trickle-down economics didn’t work’
• Alexandra Shulman: tennis is sexy again

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Survival Plan. This week's The Spectator cover

🗣 ‘The Greens are willing to get behind an SNP first minister, as long as it’s the right candidate.’

📺 The View from 22 | Katy Balls (Katy Balls) on how Scotland’s Green Party could influence the SNP’s future

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‘We need a fresh voice, a fresh start, a new start. Kate Forbes’s time has come.’

The SNP’s Fergus Ewing speaks to Lucy Dunn for The Spectator 👇

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John Swinney was just asked at a Resolution foundation event if he would like to be First Minister (Humza Yousaf is quitting):

'It's a hypothetical question.'

'It's a very demanding role.'

'It takes a lot of thinking about'.

IT LOOKS TO BE ON.

As both London and Dublin try to play to their domestic political audience, both sides have a vested interest in talking up the impact of the Rwanda scheme – even before a single flight has got off the ground
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The female entrepreneurship gap means that so much potential goes unrealised. Really interesting discussion between Katy Balls, Anneliese Dodds, Karma Kitchen and @LBG's Jo Overton around the challenges women starting up their own businesses face.

Sam Freedman Mayoral elections in expected declaration order
3 May
North East 12pm
Tees Valley 12.30pm
E Mids 2pm
York & N Yorks 3pm
4 May
Liverpool 12pm
London 1.30pm
S Yorks 2pm
W Mids 3pm
W Yorks 3.15pm
Manchester 4pm
Salford 7pm
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Plotters set out ‘100 days’ policy plan to rival Sunak

The Spectator blog on the latest Tory machinations in a big week 👇

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If, as expected, Humza Yousaf resigns today as First Minister of Scotland, it will be the beginning of the end not just for him, but for any hopes of Scottish independence

Iain MacWhirter

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Playbook reports from a left-wing Labour insider that defector Dan Poulter MP “has often crossed picket lines to work as a doctor during recent NHS strikes”. Will not go down well with members

Plotters vs Sunak: the final round

i newspaper 👇

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The final moment is approaching for the plotters to try to oust Sunak in the wake of the local elections this week

My cover piece from February on their thinking 👇

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Truss book becomes a bestseller
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The final moment is approaching for the plotters to try to oust Sunak in the wake of the local elections this week

My cover piece from February on their thinking 👇

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Clearly huge resistance in the SNP to any deal with Alba to save Humza Yousaf. That leaves the Scottish Greens. They continue to insist they will vote against him. If the FM can't persuade his party (and Alba!) to swallow a deal or the Greens to change their mind, he's finished.

New poll puts independent Jamie Driscoll just two points behind his Labour opponent

My interview on how he believes Tories are backing him 👇

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During coalition, every mid ranking Lib Dem councillor that defected to Labour became a ‘senior Lib Dem’ whose defection ‘was a further blow to Nick Clegg’s authority’

We in the press office often had to Google them.