Sturgeon: ‘stench of sleaze’ around Tory government ‘overpowering’
The SNP is calling for emails, texts, and call records to be scrutinised.
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Salmond hopes soon ‘no need’ for Scottish MPs after two defect to Alba Party
Neale Hanvey followed East Lothian MP Kenny MacAskill in joining the newly-formed pro-independence party.
Government should be “shamed into following Scottish example” following NHS pay increase
Medics in England are facing the prospect of just a 1 per cent pay rise as those in Scotland get bumped up by at least 4 per cent.
Draft Bill published for Scottish indy vote aiming to ‘protect NHS from post-Brexit trade deals’
“If Westminster maintains its control, recent history shows what Scotland can expect: an economic recovery hindered by a hard Brexit that is already taking a significant toll and the continued, systematic undermining of devolution, which is weakening our parliament’s powers to maintain food and environmental standards and protect the NHS ...
‘Back into Europe’ as Scottish voters could face an independence referendum this year
"It is a choice of two futures. It’s the long-term damage of Brexit, it’s the impact of Tory austerity, or it’s about that economic recovery, that fairer Scotland, that greener Scotland that we want to see with Scotland being an independent country back into Europe.”
Brexit bureaucracy decimating Scottish whisky industry, ministers warned
Scottish rural economy minister Fergus Ewing said the sector was being decimated by the pandemic, Brexit and tariffs.
‘Far too many people have experienced austerity, hunger and destitution’ due to ‘UK Government policies’
UN analysis had “pointed to the systematic failings of the UK welfare system that have left people in hardship and crisis”.
‘This cannot go on’ – Government must tighten rules to end shopworker abuse, retailers urge
In one case a retailer reported that one half of a couple who had been reminded to shop alone returned to the store later that afternoon threatening staff with an axe.
Johnson installs “Dominic Cummings’ Brexit apprentice” into team battling Scottish independence
“By installing Dominic Cummings’ Brexit apprentice as head of the so-called ‘Union unit’, the Prime Minister is demonstrating, yet again, that he is completely clueless about Scotland.”