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This is election expert. From the Guardians today in focus this is election extra with me Lucy Hoff

this evening some rare good news for the Tories as inflation falls but is it too

late to save the party's faltering campaign?

Rishizunak braves a brutal LBC phone in and promises he won't be on a plane to California

after the election.

You'll do your full term?

Yes, Nick, but again, we're here to talk about this election.

Okay.

And John Swinny unveils the SMP's manifesto with Scottish independence and ending austerity at its core.

We will always put the interests of people in Scotland first.

Wherever our people were born, wherever our people have come from. With me as Archie Bland, editor of the Election Edition newsletter.

Hello Archie.

Hello.

So we've been watching the SMP manifesto launch today.

I mean, this comes amid the backdrop of a really terrible couple of years for the party both legally and politically.

The SMP is now

forcast to lose more than half of its seats. So tell me what kind of campaign

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