Nicola Sturgeon voiceovers. This time, the Glaswegian star has now taken the chance to have a little fun with the Scottish leaders’ debate held earlier this week.
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referendum is unavoidable in the event of a Holyrood majority for the party.Ahead of the Prime Minister’s virtual appearance at the online Scottish Conservative conference this weekend, one idea floated by Downing Street is that MPs from the Commons could sit in Scotland for a fortnight every September.One problem, the SNP said, is that the Holyrood parliament will be fully occupied by MSPs during that time.Pete Wishart MP said the idea of touring the Commons was “laughable”.Wishart said: “Not
.Nicola Sturgeon voiceovers. This time, the Glaswegian star has now taken the chance to have a little fun with the Scottish leaders’ debate held earlier this week.
Douglas Ross will today set out his party's crime and justice manifesto ahead of May's election with a call to end the three-verdict system currently used in the most serious court cases.Unlike most of the world's legal systems, Scotland has three possible verdicts in criminal cases - guilty, not guilty and not proven.The legal implications of a not proven verdict are exactly the same as not guilty.
Douglas Ross saying he has "no ideas" how to unite Scotland. The Scottish Conservative leader wrote to Sarwar over the weekend urging them, along with the Lib Dems, to create a 'pro-Union' coalition.
Kylie Jenner is well known for her lavish and luxurious lifestyle, but she's sparked hilarity among fans for her choice of wallpaper. The 23-year-old make-up mogul uploaded a series of sultry snapshots to Instagram posing in a red mesh catsuit and a matching leather coat with the caption 'cherry on top'.
Keith Brown pointed to the results of recent opinion polls showing more than half of Scots are in favour of leaving the UK – although some more recent polls have shown a drop in support. It comes as the Nationalist leadership is scrambling to deal with the launch of the new Alba Party by former first minister Alex Salmond.
Kenny MacAskill said Nicola Sturgeon's party had "failed to achieve a majority" at the last Holyrood elections in 2016 and it was now time for other pro-independence parties to step up. The MP for East Lothian quit the SNP yesterday to join the newly launched Alba Party, which will be led by Alex Salmond and is aiming to win MSPs at May's election via the list vote.
community. There were pockets of bloggers and Salmond supporters who aired their support for the former First Minister, however on the whole the feedback was quite negative.
influencer has received flack online after sharing his bizarre theory on why he claims dinosaurs didn't exist. Caz Milligan, 25, a model and YouTuber from Fife, has gained thousands of followers from his viral videos which often divide the internet.
Get the latest Scottish crime and courts news sent straight to your inbox with our Criminal Record newsletter.Alex Salmond has suggested there are routes to independence other than the legally-backed second referendum favoured by Nicola Sturgeon.Salmond, who quit the SNP when he faced sexual assault charges of which he was later cleared, said the aim of his new party was to work towards a “successful, socially just, environmentally responsible, independent country”.The former First Minister said
Nicola Sturgeon as First Minister as he kicked off the party’s six-week election campaign. The Moray MP revealed that he will forego his £64,470 salary as a list MSP at Holyrood while he maintains his dual mandate in both Westminster and the Scottish parliament.
Tory leader after mumbling through a Commons answer in defence of Douglas Ross. Responding to a barracking from SNP Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, calling for Ross to resign his Westminster seat before standing for Holyrood in May, Johnson appeared to mangle the MP’s name with his Moray constituency.
Douglas Ross was tricked into making an X-rated comment in a Facebook Live blunder. The Tory chief was humiliated during the live stream on his own Facebook page on Tuesday evening, after one social media user duped him into the gag.
Anas Sarwar 's party is now two percentage points ahead of the Scottish Tories. According to the poll, which had 1,011 respondents, support for the SNP has dipped by six per cent compared to a poll carried out three weeks ago.
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Johnson said that for Scots to go through another divisive referendum campaign in the midst of rebuilding after covid was “the last thing they need right now.”The PM said he found it “incredible then that the SNP would choose this moment to again push their campaign for separation”.He called on Tory activists to make the SNP listen to voters’ priorities.He told the conference: “They are intent on pushing for a referendum, regardless of the cost to Scotland and the whole of the UK."So that means
Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross has demanded killers stay locked-up if they refuse to reveal the whereabouts of victims’ remains.He is pledging to introduce Suzanne’s Law – named after Edinburgh woman Suzanne Pilley – who was murdered in 2010.David Gilroy is serving at least 18 years for killing his ex-girlfriend.But he refuses to disclose the location of her body.He is thought to have buried Suzanne in
the vaccine programme in an attempt to drive home the benefits of the Union in a speech to the online Scottish Conservative conference on Sunday.He told the conference that Scotland is playing its part, as “millions of doses of Valneva’s vaccine are rolling off the production line at a high-tech plant in Livingston, ready for approval”.The Tory strategy to use the vaccine as a vote winner comes as a new poll showed Boris Johnson opening up a 10 point lead over Labour in a UK-wide survey.
Nicola Sturgeon is on course for an SNP majority of one in the Holyrood election opening the door to a constitutional showdown with Boris Johnson and fresh demands for a second referendum.The poll found support for independence is still on a knife edge with 47 per cent against separating from the UK with 46 per cent in support.Boris Johnson is expected to tell the Scottish Tory conference on Sunday that he will refuse permission for a second referendum even if the SNP wins a majority in May.John
Ruth Davidson is urging Scots to vote Tory to deny SNP a majority for Indyref2.The Scottish Tories are planning to deny the SNP a majority at Holyrood to make sure Scotland doesn't leave the UK.Ms Davidson also hit out at the "increasing stench of sleaze and scandal" she claimed was coming from Nicola Sturgeon's party.She insisted that the SNP winning an overall majority's in May's Scottish Parliament election was no longer the "'nailed-on' near-certainty" that polls had once predicted.But to
stabbing a young dad in the back 11 times with such force that the blade snapped off.Callum Andrews carried out the brutal killing of Terry Smith at a Motherwell house party in the early hours of August 13, 2019.The High Court in Glasgow was told that the incident was sparked after the 30-year-old victim began winding up another man, Connor Doherty, about the t-shirt he was wearing.Andrews, 22, grabbed a blade from the kitchen and attacked Terry while 20-year-old Doherty smashed him over the