Natalie Hunter

Chief political correspondent for The Beeb in Scotlandshire. Follow for broken news. All views expressed could be mine, yours, parody, or somebody else's.

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What is Operation Branchfoot and why did it start? For more on this, we'll hear from Glenn Campbell, who has all the details. The exact, 100% correct details.

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"Now is not the time" for separation, FM Yousaf has declared. Will you be keeping your faith, or bagging it up and chucking it into the back of your unused camper van? Let us know.

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I have been covering the downfall of the SNP for years, and you all insisted I was just some biased little girl backing up the unionist elites. Well look who's laughing now. Well, not me actually, I've got nothing to tweet about now.

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A Scots woman has been terrorised by grey squirrels who took over her home. Nikki Surgeon, 52, claimed the animals chewed her doors and skirting boards at the property. "And then they took my husband away for questioning!" she cried.

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Years of deception have finally been unravelled at the top of the Scottish Executive, and even the leadership contest is crumbling before our very eyes. Who should be the next First Minister? I'll ask Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar.

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The SNP has lost 30,000 members. "Where did they go?" Anas Sarwar demanded to know. "What other numbers are the SNP fudging? How many trains have we lost? Hospital beds? Roads? Right now, I just don't know anything."

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This morning I was tasked with rushing to the NEC to get to the bottom of the SNP leadership crisis, but as you can probably guess already, I nodded off in the taxi and ended up in Birmingham. More as we get it

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Online McZoomers are being accused of "ruining" the SNP leadership contest. "I was just about to publish our member numbers, but someone's broken the website. I don't know what to doooooo," whined one hapless intern.

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"Scotland is falling apart at the seams, at breaking point!" screamed Rishi Sunak, Scotland's top leader, at PMQs.
#PMQs

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Later today I'll be sitting down to grill SNP leadership hopeful Kate Forbes. What do you want me to ask her? I'm thinking "How much shortbread is too much shortbread?" but open to more suggestions

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Relief in the office today with the resolution of the Gary Lineker affair. Now I can get on with my job properly. Later today I'll ask the SNP leadership candidates their thoughts on this week's crunch tie between Brighton and Crystal Palace.

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I'm in Cambuslang watching Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar tuck into some Tunnock's teacakes. "Now this is why we're better together," guffawed Sir Keir.

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Sorry for the lack of activity here, it's been all hands on deck here after the Gary Lineker thing. Even for those of us up north. I'm trying to contact Craig Burley for his opinion, can anyone help? Frank McAvennie? Anyone?!

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Observers say Humza Yousaf "looked and sounded like a First Minister" at last night's debate. What do you think? For more on this, we'll speak to Humza Yousaf.

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BREAKING: Scotland editor of the Spectator Alex Massie has come out in favour of Scottish independence. "I was No but... I'm definitely Yes now," he tweeted. Get all the scoops here

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@WingsScotland @GraceBrodie @RoddyQC @holyroodmandy @theSNP @HumzaYousaf @_KateForbes @AshReganSNP Look, last year I asked FM Sturgeon 17 times in a row if she thought Jaffa Cakes were cakes or biscuits. I work hard, man!

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"As First Minister, I will defend the Scottish Parliament against repeated Westminster power grabs," Humza Yousaf told me earlier. "That means independence then, right?" I asked. "Well, let's just... huh? Oh, I've something in the microwave bye," he said.

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SNP leadership rivals were QUIZZED at hustings last night - but was it by the police? I've no idea - they wouldn't let me in. I'll ask around.

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BREAKING: I can exclusively reveal that a police fraud squad probed senior SNP members over claims of missing #indyref money days before FM Sturgeon quit. Stick with me and I'll reveal more in a few months.

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@shedden Sorry, it's what the quote said Shedden!

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First Minister candidate Humza Yousaf has been labelled the "worst health secretary in history" after A&E delays worsened. "That's a tad unfair on my rival," acknowledged Kate Forbes. "6,000 years isn't that long when you think about it."