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Andy Street tells Chris Mason 'I did it my way' and insists Rishi Sunak should lead the Conservatives into the General Election. Street claims the fact he came so close proves the value of ‘moderate’ Conservatism.

1508 votes in it

So much breath wasted on a Labour city where the result is roughly what polls predicted and so little on Labour winning NORTH YORKSHIRE which tells us so much more about where politics is in this country

West Midlands latest:

FULL recount underway for Coventry.

We won’t be hearing if Andy Street has kept/lost his seat for another couple of hours…

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.