Despite a recent and consistent wave of difficulty and controversy over the gender recognition reform bill, the quest for another independence referendum, a finance investigation into the SNP and an ongoing “ferry fiasco”, there was no clear indication that Sturgeon was going to quit.
The bill should gain royal assent which will lower the minimum age for those seeking the gender recognition certificate to 16.
In April 2019, regulators said that the scheme would finally begin operating that July but the then Culture Secretary pulled the plug in mid-June.
"Good to talk to UK Foreign Secretary @trussliz. Agreed to facilitate travel between our two countries. This will help to implement the Roadmap 2030," Jaishankar tweeted later.
The UK was adamant throughout the negotiations that it be treated as a sovereign equal of the EU and have its independence respected. This was particularly important when it came to fishing rights – one of the last issues to be resolved.
The government has given seven years to the telecoms operators to remove its existing technology from their 5G infrastructure at an expected cost of 2 billion pounds.
In addition to the recent announcement that a period of Covid-related online study will be counted towards requirements for post-study work visas, the Home Office has also announced a period of grace for students whose study visas were due to come to an end at the end of July 2020.
Addressing to the Drowning Street, Sunak said, "Today I can announce for the first time in our history the government is going to step in and pay people's wages".
The new claims come after Canada on Saturday reported its "first presumptive confirmed case" of the coronavirus, provisionally designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as 2019-nCoV.
The biggest obstacle to a deal is the backstop - the plan to prevent a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
