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A writer has claimed she was dropped from an upcoming Scottish Government ad campaign because of a poem she wrote about former first minister Alex Salmond.

The SNP has been slammed for doubling the cost of running the government since coming into power back in 2007 under former First Minister Alex Salmond.

The SNP has achieved "diddly squat" at Westminster since the 2015 general election which saw the party win an historic landslide in Scotland, a former Holyrood minister has claimed.

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Malcolm Offord also described former First Minister Alex Salmond as a “brilliant” politician who had run a “very good administration”. Offord’s appointment yesterday led to accusations of cronyism due to his status as a Tory donor.

Joanna Cherry made the explosive allegations during a bitter acceptance speech after winning an award on Thursday, September 16. Cherry, the MP for Edinburgh South West since 2015, is an ally of former SNP First Minister Alex Salmond.

Alex Salmond is set to appear in the new series of satirical puppet show Spitting Image as Shrek. An image of the former First Minister and current Alba Party leader has been released by the team behind the BritBox show which returns for a second series of the new format tomorrow, Saturday, September 11.

Alex Salmond is set to be elected as the leader of the Alba party at its conference later this year. The ex- SNP leader was facing a leadership challenge from former journalist Rob Brown ahead of the inaugural conference in Greenock next month.

Craig Murray, 62, was judged to have been in contempt of court over blogs he wrote during the trial of former first minister Alex Salmond. His offending blog posts contained details which, if pieced together, could lead readers to identify women who made allegations against Salmond, who was acquitted of all 13 charges including sexual assault and attempted rape last year.

former First Minister if he can secure the 50 required nominations to do so. The media lecturer and blogger wants to test the organisational capability of the new party, which recently welcomed its 6000th member, ahead of its first large gathering at Greenock Town Hall.

Craig Murray has handed himself in to police in Edinburgh as he is set to begin an eight-month prison sentence.

Edinburgh on Friday afternoon, with the Craig Murray Justice campaign group saying his conviction "sets a dangerous legal precedent for freedom of speech and equality before the law ". The 62-year-old's offending blog posts contained details which, if pieced together, could lead readers to identify women who made allegations against the former First Minister, who was acquitted of all 13 charges including sexual assault and attempted rape in May last year.

Alex Salmond’s QC for comments he allegedly made on a train has failed to meet a target for resolving the probe.

who quit Nicola Sturgeon's party to join Alex Salmond's Alba in March, said both parties were in no rush to ask the electorate the big constitutional question. The SNP leader has said she won't call a referendum until after the pandemic has ended but has made it clear she wants to see such a vote before the end of Holyrood's current five year term.

former SNP leader spoke out after it was revealed that Gordon Brown held a private meeting with Prince William at the Queen's official residence in Edinburgh last week. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met with Brown - who has recently launched a new campaign to protect the Union - at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Craig Murray watched two days of Alex Salmond's trial in March 2020 from the public gallery of Edinburgh’s High Court and wrote about it on his website.

Nicola Sturgeon 'sings a Beatles style song to mock her opponent's and celebrate her election victory' in Janey Godley's new voiceover video. Janey decided to show some footage of Nicola's political opponents Alex Salmond, George Galloway and Douglas Ross alongside footage of Nicola celebrating her win.

Alba Party leader - who failed to win a seat at last week's Holyrood election - warned that any delay would allow the UK Government time to plan its response. He told the BBC the time to press for an IndyRef2 would be “now” and added he was “not in favour of this idea you should delay to after covid, to after the recovery, towards the end of the second part of this parliamentary term”.

frustrating but oddest I've reported on. Coronavirus is the culprit and all the measures in place at the count I attended in Aberdeen were necessary to prevent the potential spread of the virus.

former SNP leader only launched the breakaway pro-independence movement last week and succeeded in persuading two MPs and several serving councillors to quit the Nationalists to join him. Salmond tried to persuade SNP voters to back Nicola Sturgeon in constituencies and lend his new party their support on the list vote in an attempt to create what he termed a pro-independence "supermajority" of MSPs.

candidates. Yesterday, Salmond predicted he would "fall short" of winning a seat with his new party due to a number of factors including the short time from launching the party to polling day and the lack of TV coverage for Alba.

Alex Salmond accuser claims the ex-first minister’s political resurgence has left his wife “incapacitated by depression”.Referred to as “Woman F” during Salmond’s criminal trial, she received an apology from him for inappropriate behaviour in 2013.Salmond was cleared of all criminal charges at his trial and a not proven verdict was delivered over an allegation of assault with intent to rape Woman F.At the trial, Salmond admitted the woman’s complaint relating to an incident at the first

The Former First Minister is standing for his new Alba party on the North East Scotland regional list. The pro-independence party has put up 32 candidates across the country in a bid to create a "super-majority" for 'yes' in the Holyrood chamber.

jail a former diplomat who was found to be in contempt of court after covering the Alex Salmond trial on his blog.Craig Murray, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, attended two days of Mr Salmond's trial in March 2020, sitting in the public gallery, and wrote about it on his website.The former first minister was cleared at the High Court in Edinburgh of 13 sexual assault charges involving nine women following his trial.Following previous hearings, judges on March 25 this year found that

Nicola Sturgeon has promised she will work with Anas Sarwar’s Labour to help rebuild Scotland in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

ix weeks of campaigning messages to just a few sentences. Scots across the country will head to the polling booths tomorrow, May 6, in what is being described as the most significant election since devolution in 1999.

SNP would still be the biggest party in the Holyrood chamber, however they would be short of achieving a majority. According to the Savanta ComRes poll for The Scotsman, the SNP would return 59 MSPs which is six seats short of having a majority in the parliament.

SNP leader today pushed back against a comment reported in an American magazine in which he was quoted as saying he could have "destroyed" Sturgeon's caree r if he had wanted to. Salmond insisted his words were "totally taken out of context" - and said they were a reference to his appearance before a cross-party committee of MSPs in February where he was asked to call for the First Minister's resignation and refused to do so.

Alex Neil said while there must still be focus on tackling the coronavirus pandemic after Thursday’s election, there “is no reason why we should not also be pursuing our constitutional demands at the same time”.

Alba’ s position was for Scotland to pay no share of the UK national debt if independence is achieved. When Salmond was first minister, the SNP Government explicitly said Scotland would agree a share of the national debt as part of an independence settlement.In an interview with the Record, Salmond said the previous position had been based on a currency union with the rest of the UK.