Nicola Sturgeon is to face her final First Minister’s Questions on Thursday after more than eight years as head of the Scottish Government.
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SNP leadership contender Kate Forbes’ husband attended a private Tory hustings in the race to elect the next Conservative leader.
Alasdair MacLennan was in the middle of the audience to hear Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak spell out their right-wing visions for the UK.
Forbes’ campaign said he was a non-member “guest” but a Scottish Tories spokesperson said only party members were allowed to attend.
Forbes is in a three-way battle with Health Secretary Humza Yousaf and backbencher Ash Regan, to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader and first minister.
The Finance Secretary has faced claims she wants to shift the party to the right and has been blasted for her opposition to gay marriage.
Now her husband Ali, who she married in 2021, is at the centre of a riddle over his own political sympathies.
He attended the high-security Tory hustings in Perth in August last year – a five-hour round trip from the Highlands home he shares with Forbes.
A picture obtained by the Record verifies his attendance.
After being approached for comment, a spokesman for the Forbes campaign said: “Confirming that Ali attended as a guest and that he’s not a member of any party.”
The spokesman later said he was not a member at the time of the event and had been invited by a friend who lives in the Highlands.
We asked if he had ever been a member of the Tories but no response was provided.
A Scottish Conservative spokesperson said: “Only party members and invited members of the media were permitted to attend our leadership hustings.”
A Tory source added: “Other than the press and a few neutral party staffers, everybody in attendance was there to listen to either the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss, as you would expect during a leadership contest.
Nicola Sturgeon is to face her final First Minister’s Questions on Thursday after more than eight years as head of the Scottish Government.
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her husband after he fell into a coma for months after catching the coronavirus in 2020. Broadcaster Kate Garraway has explained her husband, Derek Draper, is home with his family but recquires round-the-clock care. The former political advisor spent 13 months in hospital, and became the longest-suffering coronavirus patient in the UK.
Chorley, has had a long health battle after contracting the virus at the start of the pandemic in 2020. The 55-year-old was hospitalised for over a year and did not return home until April 2021. During the height of the pandemic, the former Southlands High School and Runshaw College pupil became the UK's longest inpatient in a hospital to be treated.
reports MirrorOnline. Of her family, Kate revealed: "They’re OK, they're good. It is challenging, he's still very, very damaged.
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Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Kuwaiti-born writer-director Zeyad (also known as “Z”) Alhusaini, whose action movie with comedic undertones “How I Got There” recently won the audience award at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, has joined United Talent Agency for representation in all areas. The groundbreaking film about two best buddies from childhood, named Salem and Asad, who stumble upon a gun shipment and try to seize this opportunity to get rich quick is set entirely in the Persian Gulf. “How I Got There” provides a relatively realistic glimpse of Kuwait’s present-day melting-pot of cultures, and its underworld of gun-running mercenaries, gangs, and terrorists, plus the local rap scene.
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A South Scotland MSP is at the centre of a gathering political storm over the SNP leadership campaign.
coronavirus, Kate has spoken openly about the struggles of her Chorley husband and the problems he still faces now. During the height of the pandemic, Derek became the UK's longest inpatient in a hospital to be treated. At one point he almost died after being diagnosed with sepsis.
Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway said “the costs go through the roof” when a relative becomes seriously ill, because of ‘the changes you have to make to your home’ and ‘your ability to work’. The TV presenter’s husband Derek Draper, a 55-year-old former political adviser, fell seriously ill with Covid-19 in March 2020 and has suffered long-lasting damage to his organs and requires daily care. Garraway has since created two documentaries detailing her family’s life as Derek battles the long-term effects, with both programmes winning a National Television Award in the authored documentary category.
Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway said “the costs go through the roof” when a relative becomes seriously ill, because of ‘the changes you have to make to your home’ and ‘your ability to work’. The TV presenter’s husband Derek Draper, a 55-year-old former political adviser, fell seriously ill with Covid-19 in March 2020 and has suffered long-lasting damage to his organs and requires daily care. Mum-of-two Kate, who shares daughter Darcey and son William with Derek, has since created two documentaries detailing her family’s life as Derek battles the long-term effects, with both programmes winning a National Television Award in the authored documentary category.
Kate Garraway has revealed the final words her husband Derek said to her as he thought he was about to die. The Good Morning Britain presenter has opened up about the heartbreaking moment in an emotional interview.
Kate Garraway said “the costs go through the roof” when a relative becomes seriously ill, because of ‘the changes you have to make to your home’ and ‘your ability to work’. The TV presenter’s husband Derek Draper, a 55-year-old former political adviser, fell seriously ill with Covid-19 in March 2020 and has suffered long-lasting damage to his organs and requires daily care. Garraway has since created two documentaries detailing her family’s life as Derek battles the long-term effects, with both programmes winning a National Television Award in the authored documentary category.