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Gordon Brown think tank calls on SNP to adopt regional mayors
57+ min ago (481+ words) GORDON Brown's think tank has said the Scottish Government should introduce regional directly-elected regional mayors and allow city regions to keep tax revenues. Our Scottish Future has produced a report written by written by former government adviser Jim Gallagher which…...
SNP leadership 'dangerously diverging from party policy', members body warns
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (535+ words) THERE is a “growing, dangerous gap” between SNP party policy and the Scottish Government, the party’s largest affiliate body has warned. Speaking to The National, the national secretary of the SNP Trade Union Group – which has around one in six…...
John Swinney 'bluntly' rejects claim SNP plans are 'about centralisation of power"
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (731+ words) SCOTTISH Government plans for a sweeping remodel of state apparatus are the “complete opposite” of the centralisation of power, John Swinney has said. The First Minister was speaking to the BBC’s Sunday Show when he was challenged on plans in…...
How Andy Burnham showed us he is 'PM of England' before even entering No 10
1+ week, 6+ day ago (505+ words) “I HEAR things, pick up straws in the wind … that is how we did it [in Manchester]. Just to be close and listen. And that’s what I will do. I will be out and about in August in all parts…...
Claim about Scottish support for nuclear power doesn’t add up
1+ week, 6+ day ago (532+ words) I WAS not surprised to find, when I got to the foot of a letter challenging Paul Kavanagh’s assertion that “Scotland does not need nuclear energy and most in Scotland don’t want it” as being “wrong on both counts” (Aug…...
Minister flounders as Scotland Office attempts Government by TikTok
2+ week, 17+ hour ago (583+ words) THE Scotland Office has, for some reason, decided that the best way to explain how the Barnett Formula works is by flinging chips about. In a social media video Scotland Office minister Melanie Ward suggested that a “proper Scottish fish…...
Andy Burnham teaches Ukrainians how to cringe with Smiths guitar serenade
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (363+ words) SPARE a thought for the poor people of Ukraine. For more than four years now they have suffered an onslaught from the invading Russian army. And it seems help from the west comes with some pretty significant strings attached. We’ve…...
SNP MP sparks debate as he calls on UK to reject new Scottish oil field
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (1106+ words) A SENIOR SNP MP has come out against a controversial proposed oil field, igniting debate within his party over its position on fossil fuels. Pete Wishart, the SNP’s longest-serving Westminster representative, said that Rosebank is a “test of whether we…...
Nicola Sturgeon calls for politicians to have ‘courage’ on environmental issues
3+ week, 17+ hour ago (440+ words) Nicola Sturgeon has called on politicians to have “courage” on climate change policy, saying she does not believe there should be new wells opened up in the North Sea. The former Scottish first minister spoke out as Prime Minister Andy…...
Why the SNP and Scottish Greens both have a Nicola Sturgeon problem
3+ week, 21+ hour ago (1080+ words) DO the SNP have a Nicola Sturgeon problem? Perhaps. But they’re not the only ones. The former first minister made some fairly obvious and – I’d have thought – uncontroversial comments about the party in the updated version of her autobiography, Frankly....