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Humza Yousaf says he won’t resign as Scotland’s First Minister amid threats of being ousted
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Academic has ‘demolished’ economic case for independence, say opposition: Professor who sat on Scottish Government advisory council says leaving UK would be ‘the ...
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Academic has ‘demolished’ economic case for independence, say opposition
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'It's all so random': Tearful Nicola Sturgeon questioned on decision making at Covid inquiry
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'It's all so random': Tearful Nicola Sturgeon questioned on ...
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Nicola Sturgeon branded Boris Johnson a 'f****** clown': Nicola Sturgeon branded Boris Johnson a "f****** clown" over the Prime Minister's decision on ...
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Nicola Sturgeon branded Boris Johnson a 'f****** clown'
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Scottish independence would raise living standards, Humza Yousaf to say in first economy speech
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Scottish independence would raise living standards, Humza Yousaf to say in ...
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COVID Inquiry: 'Nicola Sturgeon could cry from one eye if she wanted to,' says Scottish Secretary Alister Jack
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COVID Inquiry: 'Nicola Sturgeon could cry from one eye if she wanted ...
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Nicola Sturgeon is the SNP’s biggest liability: A year ago today, Nicola Sturgeon announced her resignation as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland ...
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Nicola Sturgeon is the SNP’s biggest liability
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Euan McColm: We shouldn't forget it's OK to disagree sometimes: We are losing the ability to accept that those with whom we disagree may be acting in ...
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Euan McColm: We shouldn't forget it's OK to disagree sometimes
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SNP MP Tommy Sheppard: Debate on independence stops if SNP loses next election: Tommy Sheppard said ‘this year’s vote is about whether the journey continues’
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SNP MP Tommy Sheppard: Debate on independence stops if SNP loses next ...
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Special report: 10 years on from the 2014 referendum, is Scotland any closer to independence?
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Special report: 10 years on from the 2014 referendum, is Scotland any ...
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Russell resigns as SNP president to take up new public role: Michael Russell has resigned as SNP president after being nominated as chairman of the Scottish Land ...
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Russell resigns as SNP president to take up new public role
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Poll: Labour increase lead over SNP in shock survey of Scottish voters: The latest Scoop poll conducted by the flagship Scottish Election Study put support for ...
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Poll: Labour increase lead over SNP in shock survey of Scottish voters
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Cabinet papers show private debates in SNP's first full year in power: The private discussions behind the SNP’s first full year in power are revealed today with ...
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Cabinet papers show private debates in SNP's first full year in power
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‘I don’t buy it’: Scottish secretary dismisses Sturgeon’s tears at Covid inquiry: Ex-SNP leader could ‘cry from one eye if she wanted’, says Tory cabinet ...
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‘I don’t buy it’: Scottish secretary dismisses Sturgeon’s tears at Covid ...
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Humza Yousaf: Labour doesn't need Scottish voters to win UK general election, says First Minister
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Humza Yousaf: Labour doesn't need Scottish voters to win UK general ...
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An Independent Scotland in the World: Martin Docherty-Hughes MP explores 'An Independent Scotland in the World,' delving into the proposed foreign and ...
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An Independent Scotland in the World
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Ex-Scottish leader Sturgeon's husband charged with embezzling party funds: Former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been charged with ...
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Ex-Scottish leader Sturgeon's husband charged with embezzling party funds
Quick Glance: Police Investigation into SNP Finances: Key Updates
  • On Thursday, the re-arrest of Peter Murrell, the husband of Nicola Sturgeon, took place as part of the police investigation into the SNP’s finances.

  • Murrell, aged 59, was apprehended and underwent interrogation by detectives.

  • The arrest occurred slightly more than a year subsequent to the search conducted by Police Scotland officers at the couple’s residence, where a blue tent was set up outside the property, alongside searches at the SNP’s headquarters in Edinburgh.

  • In April 2024, Peter Murrell was charged with 'embezzlement' of funds from the SNP.
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Why Scottish independence support remains despite SNP difficulties: THE polls show backing for Yes remains high and the idea it would fall as a result of ...
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Why Scottish independence support remains despite SNP difficulties
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SNP leader Humza Yousaf says he will not resign as First Minister amid no confidence motions
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UK Election: Labour Shouldn’t Write Off Scotland's SNP Just Yet: Despite numerous internal crises and a recent revival of Scottish Labour ...
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UK Election: Labour Shouldn’t Write Off Scotland's SNP Just Yet
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Operation Branchform: Whole of SNP would welcome an end to police inquiry into finances says Humza Yousaf
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Operation Branchform: Whole of SNP would welcome an end to police inquiry ...
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Scotland's wobbling pro-independence party ditches coalition with Greens: Opponents said on Thursday they would seek to oust the leader of Scotland after the ...
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Scotland's wobbling pro-independence party ditches coalition with Greens
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Labour faces challenge in Scotland as SNP underestimated, expert says: THE Union is “not out of the woods yet” and supporters of independence​ will have ...
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Labour faces challenge in Scotland as SNP underestimated, expert says
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Yousaf: 'SNP would like to see a conclusion to Operation Branchform': Humza Yousaf has said the SNP would welcome an end to Operation Branchform.
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Yousaf: 'SNP would like to see a conclusion to Operation Branchform'
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Chris Deerin: SNP reverting back to its angry but ineffective roots: What the SNP has discovered in 17 years is that government is much, much harder than it ...
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Chris Deerin: SNP reverting back to its angry but ineffective roots
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Are Scots tiring of devolution?: The Scottish parliament and devolved Scottish government is 25 years old this year, but what do voters think of it?
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Are Scots tiring of devolution?
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Labour Party with its ‘mojo’ back will mean tough challenge for SNP: The SNP MP said he is looking forward to standing for election again.
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Labour Party with its ‘mojo’ back will mean tough challenge for SNP
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Labour will need to be brave to keep the SNP at bay: If you’ll forgive me wallowing for a moment in some post-Christmas gloom, 2024 looks like being a bit ...
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Labour will need to be brave to keep the SNP at bay
Quick Glance: Keir Starmer Calls Out Tories Treating Politics as 'Hobby'
  • Labour leader to accuse Lord Cameron and Boris Johnson of treating politics as a 'hobby' and wielding power for the sake of it.

  • Politics should be considered a 'higher cause' and not a 'game' or 'pastime for people who enjoy the feeling of power'.

  • Further distancing himself from Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer vows his premiership will not be 'vanity dressed up as virtue' or a 'sermon from on high'.

  • Starmer expected to announce plans for tougher sentences for 'fraud against the public purse', potentially leading to over a decade in jail.
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Scottish independence and the need to find routes beyond the SNP: In the months after the 2014 independence referendum, despite having lost by a double-digit ...
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Scottish independence and the need to find routes beyond the SNP
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Chaos in the Commons points to a very ugly election in Scotland - Joyce McMillan: Independence aside, there are only fragile differences between SNP and Labour ...
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Chaos in the Commons points to a very ugly election in Scotland - Joyce ...
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Plaid Cymru leader sees Ireland as a template for an independent Wales: Ireland is a nation that has been able to map out its own destiny, says pro-independence ...
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Plaid Cymru leader sees Ireland as a template for an independent Wales
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What matters more to Alex Salmond – vengeance or independence?: THANK you very much,
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What matters more to Alex Salmond – vengeance or independence?
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Chris Deerin: Who are SNP's inflated independence promises and crystal-ball boasts for?
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Chris Deerin: Who are SNP's inflated independence promises and ...
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Alistair Darling was an unflashy hero of the kind we need: Nothing can ease the pain of losing a much-loved husband and father, but if Alistair Darling’s family ...
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Alistair Darling was an unflashy hero of the kind we need
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Euan McColm: If Humza Yousaf thought 2023 was a tough year, his and his party's woes aren't going away
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Euan McColm: If Humza Yousaf thought 2023 was a tough year ...
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Jason Leitch must quit over Covid controversies, says leading Aberdeen professor: Top scientist Hugh Pennington criticised the SNP’s handling of the pandemic and ...
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Jason Leitch must quit over Covid controversies, says leading Aberdeen ...
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Most Scots no longer trust Nicola Sturgeon, poll reveals: Labour has its biggest lead over the SNP since the morning after the independence referendum ...
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Most Scots no longer trust Nicola Sturgeon, poll reveals
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The SNP can’t afford to align themselves with Brian Souter: The last few years have been incredibly testing and trying for Scotland’s LGBT community – not least ...
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The SNP can’t afford to align themselves with Brian Souter
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Alba pile pressure on SNP to back indyref2 bid in King's Speech debate: ALBA have piled pressure on the SNP to support their bid to have Holyrood awarded ...
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Alba pile pressure on SNP to back indyref2 bid in King's Speech debate
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Yes Scotland and how Alex Salmond launched push for independence: THE cross-party Yes Scotland campaign was launched on May 25, 2012, with the aim of persuading ...
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Yes Scotland and how Alex Salmond launched push for independence
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SNP is now known by the public as the party of incompetence: If the recent past is indeed any guide to what comes next then the SNP’s prospects are surely bleak.
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SNP is now known by the public as the party of incompetence
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Controversial Scottish independence BBC drama ‘could be shown again’: THE BBC says it would consider rescreening a controversial drama showing the ...
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Controversial Scottish independence BBC drama ‘could be shown again’
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SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf talks independence, tax and Alex Salmond: It's been a turbulent year for the SNP, from the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon to the ...
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SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf talks independence, tax and Alex Salmond
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Yousaf: Boosting living standards the 'prize of independence': Humza Yousaf will use his first speech of 2024 to claim that Scottish independence can raise ...
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Yousaf: Boosting living standards the 'prize of independence'
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We need Kate Forbes to rescue Scottish politics from stalemate: NOBODY on either side of the independence debate should take any comfort from the Letters Pages ...
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We need Kate Forbes to rescue Scottish politics from stalemate
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Letters: Court ruling really is a dark day for devolution: Humza Yousaf has declared the Court of Session ruling a “dark day for devolution” and indeed it is ...
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Letters: Court ruling really is a dark day for devolution
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News review of 2023 part four: Israel-Gaza war, a defection and a former PM returns
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News review of 2023 part four: Israel-Gaza war, a defection and a former ...
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Scotland is ‘moving politically backwards’, says Alex Salmond: The former first minister criticised the Scottish Government and the SNP
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Scotland is ‘moving politically backwards’, says Alex Salmond
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Kate Forbes: The rooted nomad: “Those who honour me I will honour” 1 Samuel 2:30 On 20 February Kate Forbes announced she wanted to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as ...
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Kate Forbes: The rooted nomad
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A more caring view on migration and the EU? Yes to that: Eighteen months ago – it seems like a long time ago now – Nicola Sturgeon launched the first of a series ...
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A more caring view on migration and the EU? Yes to that
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Operation Branchform: Police probe costs revealed: Operation Branchform, the probe into the SNP's finances and funding, has cost Police Scotland more than £1 ...
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Operation Branchform: Police probe costs revealed
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Alex Salmond’s Alba party proposes referendum on extending Scottish Parliament’s powers
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Alex Salmond’s Alba party proposes referendum on extending Scottish ...
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Majority support for independence and SNP lead new poll: The SNP remains the dominant party in Scotland leading Labour by 10 points on General Election voting ...
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Majority support for independence and SNP lead new poll
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Devolution: put everything up for debate: DISAGREEMENT seems generally frowned upon today. Which is a shame. Without disagreement, humanity would, one imagines ...
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Devolution: put everything up for debate
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Veteran SNP MP says fatigue setting in around party agenda: VETERAN SNP MP Pete Wishart has insisted his party needs to give people a reason to keep believing ...
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Veteran SNP MP says fatigue setting in around party agenda
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John FitzGerald: How to make Northern Ireland’s economy work: Starting point must be a functioning Executive and a working Assembly
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John FitzGerald: How to make Northern Ireland’s economy work
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Alex Salmond plots Westminster election comeback ahead of Aberdeen strategy meeting
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Alex Salmond plots Westminster election comeback ahead of Aberdeen ...
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Do the SNP and Greens actually have a proper plan for anything?: COULD someone kindly tell me what this SNP-Green administration is for? With the Deposit Return ...
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Do the SNP and Greens actually have a proper plan for anything?
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Stephen Gethins: Brexit is the key to unlocking Scottish independence: FORMER MP Stephen Gethins has said he has “unfinished business” in making a strong case ...
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Stephen Gethins: Brexit is the key to unlocking Scottish independence
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Taxing the assets of energy firms could bring big benefits: I FIND it ironic that Alyn Smith’s article “Scotland needs the power to solve energy issues” (Nov 1) ...
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Taxing the assets of energy firms could bring big benefits
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Enough is enough: Scots must not be fobbed off again: OVER the last 16 years it has suited the SNP leadership and its publicly-funded cabal of spin doctors to ...
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Enough is enough: Scots must not be fobbed off again