Thank you. And thats bbc news at ten. Theres more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight, with kirsty wark, which isjust getting under way on bbc two. The news continues here on bbc one, as now its time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the almost a year since the start of the Women Life Freedom Protests in iran, we have a Special Report with defiant voices inside the country as the Morality Police double down on the repression of women. So how should the uk calibrate relations with iran . Well be joined by a Iranian American Human Rights researcher whose father was a political prisoner who died under house arrest and the former uk ambassador to iran. Also tonight, to raise or not to raise should the Bank Of England hike the Interest Rate tomorrow, or can the economy do its own work now . Two senior economists argue it out. The upcoming ruthergen and Hamilton West by election expected to be a major Snp Labour Battle could be a bellwether for the general
the snp is defending a whole host of seats in glasgow and lanarkshire and whilst labour are currently behind them in the scottish national polls, that party believes their voters are concentrated in this part of the country, therefore if they can win this constituency, others may follow. this is exactly the sort of seat that labour should be winning if they are going to build momentum. it is a marginal seat, it is a former labour heartland, this seat has changed hands before, so labour won it in 2017 before margaret ferrier took it in 2019. so i think if labour don t win in rutherglen, there will be a lot of soul searching within the party around, are we really seeing a labour revival in scotland as a recent national polls suggest, or actually, has it gone as far as it s going to go? one, two, three. snp! scotland s politics have shifted dramatically in recent years. the result in this battleground will tell us if they are shifting again.