in scotland. it is not clear exactly when she will leave office, but as i say, she has been head of the scottish government for the last eight years. she has been making headlines in recent weeks because of a wider debate on teenagers rights, calling for a wider debate on teenagers rights, she defended plans to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex. scotland s gender recognition bill that she wanted to introduce into scotland brought her into conflict and a clash with the uk government based in westminster, which blocked scotland plus two gender recognition bill. the secretary of state for scotland alisterjack used a special order known as a section 35 order to prevent that there becoming law on the grounds it would have an adverse impact on the laws. those are laws that apply across scotland, england and wales. that was a claim disputed by the scottish government, butjust to remind you, that gender recognition bill was to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex
Ceasefire talks in cairo. The good news is that they are happening and that five nations, orfive parties, are at least all there in cairo. So thats hamas, israel, the us, qatar and egypt. The not so good news is that israel has only sent a fairly low level team theyre not there to negotiate, theyre there to study what hope there is of trying to bridge the gap between what is acceptable to israel and what is acceptable to hamas, and that gap is still pretty wide. The main Sticking Point, as my colleague yolande referred to there, is over how this ends. So the fundamentals of the deal are largely intact, theyre largely agreed. They can agree this that it will start with a 42 day period of calm, a truce essentially, during which hamas will give up 33 hostages. Theres a bit of dispute about whether they would be alive or dead, but 33 hostages. In return, a much larger number of Palestinians Prisoners would be released from israeli jails and palestinians who had been moved south into rafah
He did resign from the party because of sir keir starmer post match stance on palestine. You of sir keir starmer postmatch stance on palestine. You mentioned other candidates, stance on palestine. You mentioned other candidates, and stance on palestine. You mentioned other candidates, and particularly i other candidates, and particularly interested in the conservative candidates and how they are dealing with being with associated with the government on a national level. That is interesting government on a national level. Twat is interesting because last year we saw in Milton Keynes that the conservatives were all granting themselves as local conservatives. It didnt really help them, they lost five of the seats in Milton Keynes last year, but they are having a go with that again this year, defending nine seats this time and we are in a situation in Milton Keynes it is looking very likely that Milton Keynes will become a fully run Labour Council after 18 years of there being no overall c
Greens. I think they would trust john swinney. He could have had it last year. He didnt want it, he wants a more peaceful time, more time with his family, genuinely. But he could perhaps be persuaded there is a service to be done to his party and to the nation. He could perhaps be cajoled or stop other than that there are senior members of the scottish cabinet, neil gray, who could be contenders but perhaps scottish cabinet, neil gray, who could be contenders but Perhaszohn Swinney could hold the fort for a while until the snp decide and determine what their future planning is. ,. , determine what their future planning is. , determine what their future planning is. Lets go back to westminster and our political is. Lets go back to westminster and our political respondent is. Lets go back to westminster and our political respondent nick is. Lets go back to westminster and our political respondent nick early. I our political respondent nick early. Under the law they have 28 days to choo
figures in the snp, in terms of some policies, that is definitely true, but in general i think a lot of people would look to kate forbes or perhaps john people would look to kate forbes or perhaszohn swinney people would look to kate forbes or perhaps john swinney as people would look to kate forbes or perhaszohn swinney as someone who could leave the party wraps on an interim basis, or may be longer term. what we don t know at the moment is exactly what the exit strategy is. i would be very surprised if this was going to happen quickly, given that we know nicola sturgeon is someone who plans very carefully, strategise as in terms of her own career and in terms of the scottish government and the snp. you would expect this would be quite a careful transition period, that she would want to be confident that she would want to be confident that whoever is taking over from her will have an opportunity to get their feet will have an opportunity to get theirfeet under the will have an opportu