Did it last night – info for anyone else struggling:
Remove circlip
Sprayed a bit of penetrating oil onto mast end plastic insert
Griped mast end with grips/vice across the pins to prevent damage
Rotated slightly, pulled and it came loose and it pulls out still connected to inner shaft
Grip inner shaft (grips and some old inner tube) and rotate mast end and it unscrews
V easy to then tap retaining pins out of mast end using a flattened nail and replace broken multilink
Don’t forget to replace circlip before connecting to cable, inserting to bike and testing – do you how I know this!!!