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Posts Tagged: Alex Salmond MP

Battleground Seats 2) Scotland

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

By Henry Hill | 26 April 2017 | 33 comments

Peter Duncan: The Prime Minister’s gamble in Scotland – and why pressure for another independence vote may become unstoppable

Any result which sees the election of more than 45 nationalists will raise some awkward questions for May as she forms her new government.

By Peter Duncan | 20 April 2017 | 186 comments

Iain Dale: The election expenses allegations – and the mysterious absence of Feldman

Well, it’s been quite a week, hasn’t it?

By Iain Dale | 17 March 2017 | 70 comments

Scotland and a referendum. Send for Cummings to help fight for the Union.

The most ominous portent for a second poll is that the No campaign has collapsed. It needs rebooting urgently.

By Paul Goodman | 14 March 2017 | 247 comments

Brown let talk of a general election run out of control. Is Sturgeon doing the same with a second independence referendum?

Whatever Scotland’s first Minister decides to do, events seem to be creating their own momentum.

By Paul Goodman | 3 March 2017 | 72 comments

WATCH: Rees-Mogg on Trump and Brexit

He and Jess Phillips review the highlights of the news for Sophie Ridge’s Sky News programme.

12 February 2017 | 15 comments

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Sir Keir wins a Brexit concession for the Dinner Party

Parliamentary sovereignty has become fashionable among Europhiles who used to consider it barbaric.

By Andrew Gimson | 7 February 2017 | 8 comments

Iain Dale: If Wollaston is for Remain over the NHS, what’s taken her so long to say so?

Plus: EU heads-to-heads on LBC. Blair gets his retaliation in first. And: Some people think everything’s a conspiracy – and they may be right.

By Iain Dale | 10 June 2016 | 62 comments

Iain Dale: How slippery Salmond drowned in oil

The injustice of the Durham rape allegation. Mundell comes out. And: who will help me to make my mind up about Europe?

By Iain Dale | 15 January 2016 | 73 comments

Iain Dale: As this new year begins, I gaze again into my crystal balls

Plus: Loathsome Winston McKenzie. Alex Salmond, Thatcher fan. The indestructible Keith Vaz. And: my interview with Charles Moore is well worth a listen.

By Iain Dale | 8 January 2016 | 66 comments

Farage’s iron grip on UKIP is strangling it

The contrast with the waxing fortunes of the SNP illustrates the importance of knowing when to pass the torch.

By Henry Hill | 26 September 2015 | 115 comments

Henry Hill: Cameron rules out Scottish referendum rematch

Also: Scottish Labour fear far-left infiltration; Plaid debate fate of former leader; Welsh Labour criticise ‘toxic’ leadership race; and nationalists bid to rechristen Londonderry.

By Henry Hill | 29 July 2015 | 40 comments

Henry Hill: Welsh Labour MPs join left-wing rebellion

Also: New welfare reforms could collapse Northern Irish government; Salmond accused of ignoring the Scottish Parliament; and SNP fears infiltration by the far left.

By Henry Hill | 22 July 2015 | 2 comments

Henry Hill: Outlook bleak for Stormont as talks collapse

Also: ‘Self-financing’ Yes campaign bankrolled by the SNP; and Welsh Labour minister uninterested in ‘English Labour’ leadership contest.

By Henry Hill | 3 June 2015 | 4 comments

Sorry, Mel Gibson, Braveheart didn’t win it for the Nats

Support for the SNP and independence stayed the same before and after the film’s release.

By Peter Hoskin | 28 May 2015 | 28 comments

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