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Posts Tagged: Alex Salmond MSP

Iain Dale: Teaching unions are loud but wrong on vaccines. Besides, what about those without powerful public advocates?

Plus: Have you got your popcorn ready for Salmond’s appearance before a committee of the Scottish Parliament this lunchtime?

By Iain Dale | 26 February 2021

Andy Maciver: Scotland. Don’t run away from a referendum. Instead, embrace it, offer a new Union – and win

The second article in a five-part ConHome series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.

By Andy Maciver | 23 February 2021

Iain Dale: A revitalised and purposeful May heads for the Welsh hills to call an election (just kidding, folks)

Plus: Gauke’s failure, UKIP chaos, Salmond’s Russia Today shame, Corbyn’s anti-semitism debacle…and an invitation if you live near Bath.

By Iain Dale | 30 March 2018 | 224 comments

Iain Dale: What happened at the President’s Club was no worse than many women’s events

Plus: Vicious Cybernats. Bolton’s brass neck. Widdecombe’s ratings. Johnson’s death wish. And: the courage of my friend Tessa Jowell.

By Iain Dale | 26 January 2018 | 169 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 | 246 comments

Iain Dale: He was five foot four, and I’m six foot two, but I’m wanted none the less to play Mussolini

Plus: Salmond’s revisionist view of Thatcher. My weekly Brexit briefing begins. And: the glory of Tim Shipman’s “All Out War”.

By Iain Dale | 2 December 2016 | 7 comments

Sanjoy Sen: In next year’s Scottish elections, we must be hot on Labour’s tail

Opportunities for Scotland’s Conservatives lie ahead – if the right organisation and resources can be found.

By Sanjoy Sen | 31 May 2015 | 26 comments

Early tomorrow morning, will Cameron make a dramatic offer to the SNP?

How a federalist offer on Scotland could turn expectations on their head.

By Paul Goodman | 7 May 2015 | 38 comments

Election Sketch: Mundell has a better chance than most of surviving the SNP tsunami

The threat posed by Scottish Nationalists to the Union has had the beneficial consequence of reinvigorating the Scottish Conservatives.

By Andrew Gimson | 5 May 2015 | 29 comments

UKIP’s limp campaign is a victim of mismanaged expectations

The inflated hopes engendered by their 2014 annus mirabilis look set to sour a perfectly respectable result for the People’s Army.

By Henry Hill | 2 May 2015 | 72 comments

Andy Maciver: Conservatives in Scotland are increasingly being hindered by their association with London

Privately, leading Scottish Tories are livid at the Carlisle Principle, Theresa May’s ‘abdication’ intervention and the rest of the rhetoric of the last week.

By Andy Maciver | 29 April 2015 | 40 comments

Worst case scenarios for each of the parties

Based on recent polls and allowing for a bit of slippage here and there, here’s the worst that could happen.

By Peter Franklin | 27 April 2015 | 14 comments

Daniel Hannan MEP: If at first you don’t secede…

Having failed to destroy the Union by turning Scottish voters against it, Salmond now proposes to do so by turning English ones against it instead.

By Daniel Hannan MEP | 15 April 2015 | 41 comments

Henry Hill: The rise of the Scottish ‘Nasty Party’?

Also: the DUP rule out any formal parliamentary arrangement with the SNP; and the Tories grant the Welsh Assembly powers of redefinition.

By Henry Hill | 15 April 2015 | 9 comments

Peter Riddell: Minority government can work – and work well

It would be more constraining, unfamiliar and undoubtedly messy. But it need not be as bad as some fear.

By Peter Riddell | 1 April 2015 | 4 comments

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