“When I get the opportunity… I can set out these things fully.”
Some fear this is part of deeper struggle within the party as a prominent pro-devolution MS is deselected by local activists.
Also: Johnson and Gove set to meet to plot their pro-Union strategy as a Tory MSP defends to Nigel Farage’s new party.
Were his allegations against Sturgeon are substantiated, she would probably have to resign, and damage to the broader Nationalist cause could be severe.
Also: civil servant at heart of Salmond fiasco set for retirement windfall; Foster threatened by loyalist terrorist; and Bogdanor attacks federalist folly.
Much the best way to embarrass its members at Westminster would be to hail them as friends and fellow members of the Establishment.
SNP ministers are blocking witnesses and withholding legal advice. Can the opposition capitalise?
The Scottish leader has always tried to temper expectations about the country’s fight with Covid. This could pay off in an independence referendum.
Also: true scale of the Irish Protocol’s impact on commerce, and Stormont’s ‘rank incompetence’, show how Ulster unionism needs a refresh.
Also: Scottish Government faces furious backlash over exam results ‘fiasco’ as Salmond and Sturgeon head for a showdown.
That Johnson’s recent visit was reported as though he were a Governor-General of Imperial India touring the North-West frontier is a bad sign.
If the UK government is to succeed in stamping its mark through direct investment, it will need to channel the zeal usually reserved for an underdog.
Two extreme versions of what happens next in Britain. Events are more likely to end up somewhere in the middle.
Also: Salmond gathers his forces and his allies call for inquiries and resignations as the SNP civil war gathers momentum.
Just a few months ahead of the Scottish Parliament Election, voters deserve to know the truth of whether they can trust the First Minister’s word.