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That brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster.

It is 11 minutes past two on Thursday the 7th of December.

I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by

Georgia Roberts, journalist based in Westminster.

And Phil Sim, journalist based at the Scottish Parliament.

And nothing quite says they run up to the festive season as some chaos

at the top of government at Westminster, Georgia. It's all been happening again today and over the

past few days. Yeah, festive chaos is what we like around here. And gosh, don't they do it well?

So where do we start? I mean, well, so today. And last night,

really, was the beginning of the chaos just to take people through events because it has been

quite a time. Robert Jenrick, former now immigration minister, was a close ally and friend,

we should say, of Rishi Sunak, once said really to be one of his closest friends in politics,

resigned from the UK government.

And in his resignation letter, he basically says that stronger protections are needed in the safety of Rwanda bill,

the UK government's Plan B legislation to try and resurrect the Rwanda scheme that

was ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court not too long ago.

And he, we have heard for some weeks now, since especially Soella Braviman, the former

Home Secretary sacking from government, She, of course, likes to present

herself as a bit of a bastion of the right of the party. He has been said for a few weeks,

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