Scottish Labour is set to become the main challenger to Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP in future elections after Conservative support plunged to its worst Scottish showing a decade.
Scottish Labour is set to become the main challenger to Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP in future elections after Conservative support plunged to its worst Scottish showing a decade.
The Scottish Government has announced more than £160 million of funding is being invested this year to help make homes and buildings warmer and more efficient, supporting efforts to tackle fuel poverty while helping householders manage their energy bills and reduce carbon emissions.
A former Scottish Green MSP has been mocked on social media after he posted an appeal to find more work.
Nicola Sturgeon has told Douglas Ross he must be "deeply mortified" by the actions of his Conservative colleagues at Westminster as the Christmas party scandal continues.
Green Ministers have been dismissed as “SNP lapdogs” over their non-attendance at Cabinet meetings.
Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater will tell members her party’s policies can change people’s lives after they entered a power-sharing agreement with the SNP.
First Minister will address MSPs in Holyrood on what her power-sharing SNP/Green government plans to implement over the next year. It comes after Sturgeon's SNP reached an agreement with the Scottish Greens which created a majority for the nationalist parties in the chamber.
SNP Government was agreed last week. The pact, which would give the SNP and Greens a clear majority at Holyrood, commits the parties to a shared agenda, but also flags up excluded policy areas.
SNP ploughed ahead with policy not backed by the Greens Harvie said: “Ultimately, if that’s the approach they take then this agreement wouldn’t work.
UK normally takes place overnight, however that won't be the case this time due to the 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.
Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) all went up against one another in a tame BBC TV debate.
BBC debate was the first to show the five party leaders having a genuine discussion on politics. Previous showings had been tedious, with politicians wheeling out their pre-prepared soundbites and key messages.Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Douglas Ross (Tory), Anas Sarwar (Lab), Willie Rennie (LD) and Patrick Harvie (Greens) generated heat rather than light in those early debates.
BBC One Scotland and the BBC News Channel for the fourth and final time of the election campaign tonight. Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Labour), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) will all face questions from BBC Scotland Political Editor Glenn Campbell on the show which kicks off at 7.50pm.
Anas Sarwar (Scottish Labour), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Greens) tackled some of the main issues during the 45-minute programme. It was the third television debate of the Scottish Parliament election campaign and the first UK-wide one.
Boris Johnson said he would prefer to “let bodies pile high” than agree to a third lockdown.
Holyrood election will again see a majority of MSPs returned who support independence. Her fellow Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has said that in those circumstances, the continued “refusal by the UK to even talk about this would be politically untenable”.
Patrick Harvie said the gap between the wealthiest in society and poorest had only grown wider during repeated lockdowns. He said it was "crucial" for the most well-off to pay an increased share of taxation to help pay for Scotland's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) all went head-to-head against one another in a fiery debate on STV. It was the second time the candidates for First Minister got to quiz each other in the campaign.
Lorna Slater, who jointly leads the Scottish Greens, of not mentioning independence during a TV debate.
Scottish politics.But the Scottish Greens co-leader will join Nicola Sturgeon, Anas Sarwar, Douglas Ross and Willie Rennie for the first election debate of 2021 live on BBC One tonight.Co-leader Patrick Harvie is the most high profile Greens MSP and has been a mainstay of politics in Scotland for a number of years - but not much is known about Slater in comparison.She did however appear on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday it what was her first major TV interview.So, what do we know about
Patrick Harvie, whose party will likely determine the fate of the First Minister, has claimed the Inquiry is a "farce" and is after a “political scalp”.
Patrick Harvie warned time was running out to tackle the global climate emergency and that bold environmental policies were now required.The Greens returned six MSPs via the list vote at the last Scottish Parliament election in 2016 and members are hoping to hit double figures this time around.But the pro-independence party has faced repeated criticism from Unionists for being too supportive of the SNP Government.The Greens refused to back other opposition parties last week when Deputy First
The STUC is calling on Nicola Sturgeon to introduce a national subsidy for companies which switch to a 32-hour working week with no loss of pay. They point to a pilot scheme in Spain where similar proposals have been backed by 50 million euro of government funding.
Patrick Harvie “pathetic” and a “national embarrassment”. The petulant comments came on the eve of a Scottish Parliament vote into the former president’s finances.
Andy Wightman, a well-known campaigner for land reform before entering politics, will now sit as an independent until next year's Holyrood election. In a letter to Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, he said was "saddened by the intolerance shown by some party members to an open and mature dialogue about the tensions and conflicts around questions of sex and gender in the context of transgender rights and women’s rights".
SNP backbencher sparked an angry backlash for suggesting it's "healthy" to debate who should be allowed to have sex. John Mason said freedom of speech laws allow him to "debate" what consenting adults do in Scotland.
Patrick Harvie yesterday made an impassioned plea for historical links to slavery to be erased from Scotland’s streets after calls to topple monuments and scrap street signs.Thousands of people have backed petitions to pull down the controversial Lord Melville monument in Edinburgh city centre and remove the names of those who benefited from slavery from Glasgow landmarks in recent days.And Greens co-leader Harvie backed the move, saying we can only “tackle Scotland’s deep-rooted racism” once
A much-loved outdoor centre in Helensburgh is set to be saved following a dramatic u-turn by the Green Party.
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