If you like drama in your politics, or politics in your drama, the last few weeks have thrown up enough to commission a whole Netflix series.

It was only just over a fortnight ago that I was scheduled to attend a discussion about the UK Government’s industrial strategy with Scottish Secretary Ian Murray, at which concerns over the employment rights bill, then being spearheaded by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, would doubtless feature. I could have scarcely imagined everything that was about to hit.

They say that the wheels of government grind slowly, but the speed at which events in domestic politics and on the world stage have unfolded in the last couple of weeks suggests someone’s been out with the WD40.

All the political defections, resignations, sackings, immediate un-sackings and promotions have been hard to keep up with, while watching global events has at times been genuinely disturbing. Then there’s been all the inevitable pomp and protest of a

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