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Press and Journal Politics Morning Briefing: Everything you need to know for April 9

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Welcome to The Press and Journal’s politics morning briefing, it’s everything you need to know about politics in our region, and across the country, before you start your day.

 

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Coming up today:

  • Coming up on Election Hub Live this afternoon Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar joins us, we look at the issues faced by smaller political parties as they try to break through to voters, and we’ll hear from a north east candidate who’s ‘all shook up’ by his opponent’s love of Elvis. Stream it live on our website and Facebook channels at 2pm or catch the re-stream at any time on all your devices.
  • Nicola Sturgeon is to announce plans to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to every primary school pupil in the country.

  • Tories are pledging to increase funding for mental health services by hundreds of millions of pounds if they win May’s Holyrood election.
  • Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader Willie Rennie will be joined by UK party leader Ed Davey at a wholesaler to discuss plans to support small business.
  • Anas Sarwar will visit a Scottish Power Training Centre to meet apprentices who are making electric vehicles.
  • Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie and North East candidate Guy Ingerson will discuss the party’s proposals to end subsidies for oil and gas and build a fair transition for workers to a renewables-based economy.

 

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