Norway's PM Jonas Gahr Støre left heading minority government after coalition partner pulls out over EU market rules it says make it impossible to shield citizens from high electricity prices

This whole situation feels a bit strange. Surely Støre and his advisors must have known this would make the Centre Party pull out of the coalition. Then the day after, the new single-party government announces a new fixed electricity price scheme, as well as announcing they are not implementing all the EU directives.

My tinfoil hat theory is that Labour wanted their coalition partner to pull out before announcing a policy they think will be popular with voters, so they'll get sole credit for it before the upcoming election.

It was kind of a silly coalition to begin with. The Centre Party doesn't have much in common with Labour, but was riding high on the unpopularity of several reforms the previous (even more silly) Conservative/Progress/Liberal/Christian Democratic coalition implemented. Labour didn't actually oppose the reforms, but had to pretend to when they entered the coalition. This coalition grew unpopular with record speed, and it's been clear since about 6 months in that they were heading for a devastating loss in the upcoming election. Voters have long since forgotten the incompetence and scandals of the previous coalition, and there's a big chance the Progress Party leader (who I believe to be a psycopath pretending to be a Christian (sound familiar?)) will be our next prime minister.