Once again, it is time to get back to the basics of what people want from their police – to investigate, detect, and solve real crimes, not hurt feelings.
Labour, like the SNP, had promised to work in partnership with the oil and gas sectors. But, despite this, they have since confirmed their plans to bring about a cliff-edge end to North Sea production.
Our conference this weekend will highlight why in huge swathes of the country – the North East, the Highlands and Islands, almost all of the South of Scotland – it is to us, and not Labour, that voters are turning.
More are reportedly saying that they will back a no-confidence vote if Sir Lindsay Hoyle doesn’t indicate that he’s stepping down. It would be quite something if his manoeuvre to get Starmer out of a tough spot ended up inflicting fresh dissension on the Conservatives.
But Starmer failed to establish any kind of personal ascendancy over Sunak at PMQs.
The Progressive Conservatives faced a toxic combination: not just a terrible vote share, but two powerful and regionally-concentrated challengers in Reform and the Bloc Québécois.
A televised spectacle was never going to yield honest testimony about why the Scottish Government deleted its own paper trail, but it could yet do serious damage to the already-ailing SNP.
During the pandemic, the then-first minister struck a pious tone on the subject of open government. All the while, she and her advisers were deleting their messages.
The Scottish First Minister says he believes the lives of Palestinians and Muslims are not valued as highly as others.
It means abandoning any claim that there might be a hung parliament in which the SNP could use their leverage to secure a second referendum.
After the general election, the pretence that the next big battle for independence is just around the corner will finally have run out of road.
Those who claim the Conservatives would benefit from a spell in opposition to ‘rest and detox’ are misguided. My first nine years in Parliament were spent in opposition, and it was a frustrating experience.
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Much of what happens next will hinge on interpretation and implementation by the police, and more importantly, Scotland’s opaque Crown Office prosecution service.