Ray addison in the gb newsroom. The snp is preparing for a leadership contest after the Scottish First minister announced his resignation. Humza yousafs admitted that he underestimated the level of upset he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. Hell now continue in his post until a replacement can be found. Clearly emotional, mr yousaf said hes quitting to help repair relationships across the political divide. Political divide. No, ella whelan certainly bear no grudge against anyone. Politics can be a brutal business. It takes its toll on your physical and mental health. Your family suffer alongside you. I am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. Im afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me, from now. How. Now. Well, the race to replace humza yousaf starts now. Former humza yousaf starts now. Former deputy first minister john swinney says hes considering it carefully. Ive got lots of thi
Waiting for. The news bulletin waiting for. The news bulletin with ray addison. Good evening. Its 8 00. Im ray addison in the gb newsroom. The snp is preparing for a leadership contest after the Scottish First minister announced his resignation. Humza yousafs admitted that he underestimated the level of upset he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. Hell now continue in his post until a replacement can be found. Clearly emotional, mr yousaf said hes quitting to help repair relationships across the political divide. Political divide. No, ella whelan certainly bear no grudge against anyone. Politics can be a brutal business. It takes its toll on your physical and mental health. Your family suffer alongside you. I am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. Im afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me, from now. How. Now. Well, the race to replace humza yousaf starts now. Former humza yousaf s
To answer that question, is the Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho and for labour, shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood. Hello to you both over there. Theyll both hear how the boss of the governments climate watchdog, chris stark, thinks theyre all in fear. Its London Marathon day so were on bbc two but you might recognise some of the runners how come laura. Just getting ready for the marathon. It will be quite a tough one, maybe not quite some as tough one, maybe not quite some as tough as all the questions you ask way. And with me at the desk, eco warrior and broadcaster Chris Packham layla moran, liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesperson, and businessman lukejohnson former chair of Pizza Express and channel 4, now chairman of gails the bakery chain. Lets start with whats in the news. On our theme today, the Sunday People Sastust stop oil are planning to wreck Holiday Plans by storming airports this summer. The observers splashes with labour shifting to target pensioners trying
Jeremy corbyn is plotting to run for mayor london. And ill be for mayor of london. And ill be heanng for mayor of london. And ill be hearing from the liberal democrats whip wendy democrats chief whip Wendy Chamberlain from their conference in bournemouth and the outspoken tory backbencher Daniel Kawczynski joins me in the studio to dissect another busy week in politics. What does he the plans to cut he make of the plans to cut inheritance tax now before we get through all that, lets go through front pages. Lets through the front pages. Lets start. One story thats start. Theres one story thats dominating papers dominating the papers this morning. Imagine, hs2 morning. As you can imagine, hs2 sunday telegraph goes with axe looms over hs2, over 8 billion cost shock. The bill has gone up by another 8 billion. Can you believe it . The sunday times goes with sunak revives plan to slash inheritance tax. This has slash inheritance tax. This has been waiting in the wings, hasnt it . Been waitin