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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      Scottish minister under pressure to quit over £11,000 data roaming bill

      Labour says Michael Matheson’s position is untenable after admitting his children used his iPad while on holiday

      Michael Matheson has been under pressure since it emerged last week that the £11,000 roaming fees he incurred in Morocco were charged to taxpayers
    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Starmer suffers major rebellion over Israel-Hamas war

      More than 50 Labour MPs defy their party leader to call for a ceasefire in Gaza

    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Starmer faces front-bench unrest over SNP motion for Gaza ceasefire

      Labour MPs will be ordered to abstain on amendment but pressure is rising on them from activists and constituents

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      UK local government finance
      Scotland council tax U-turn prompts backlash from local authority leaders

      Humza Yousaf’s decision to freeze levy next year widens rift with local authorities, which warn of looming public service cuts

      Humza Yousaf
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Humza Yousaf’s Scottish independence strategy struggles for coherence

      Poll showing record low voter interest in prioritising the constitutional question will challenge first minister

      Humza Yousaf after his speech at the Scottish National party conference in Aberdeen
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Scotland to issue bonds for the first time, says SNP’s Yousaf

      First minister announces plans to tap markets for infrastructure funding in speech to party conference

      Humza Yousaf delivers a speech
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Humza Yousaf rides high despite misstep on Scottish independence strategy

      Backed by the SNP, his new plan for a second vote to leave UK is likely to fall flat

      Humza Yousaf
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      Scottish independence
      SNP backs revised plan for Scottish independence referendum

      Yousaf says party can claim ‘mandate’ for second vote to leave UK if nationalists win majority of Scottish seats at next UK election

    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Inside Politics
      What Lisa Cameron’s defection means for Conservative party and SNP

      MP for East Kilbride’s switch to Tories is a blow for Humza Yousaf on the eve of his party’s conference

      Lisa Cameron
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Humza Yousaf’s problems mount as SNP MP defects to Conservatives

      Lisa Cameron MP says she quit Scottish National party over ‘toxic and bullying’ treatment from colleagues

      Lisa Cameron
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      Humza Yousaf
      Yousaf vows to restore SNP’s ‘credibility’

      Scotland’s first minister dismisses speculation over position in wake of crushing by-election defeat

      Humza Yousaf, First Minister of Scotland, photographed in Edinburgh
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      UK politics
      Starmer hails Rutherglen victory as sign Labour is heading for power

      Opposition leader says by-election result in Scotland ‘blew the doors off’ after 20 percentage point swing from SNP

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Scottish politics
      Scotland’s first minister to boost welfare spending by £1bn

      Increase in social security budget to £6.3bn comes as SNP’s Yousaf seeks to outflank a resurgent Labour party

      Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      SNP appoints former comms chief as chief executive

      Murray Foote rejoins party after stepping down over membership figures row

      Murray Foote
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      News in-depthLabour Party UK
      Labour MPs fear being outflanked from the left by SNP in by-election

      Keir Starmer’s socially conservative stance threatens to alienate voters in Scotland ahead of general election

      Kier Starmer in front of Labour banner
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Recreational drugs
      Scottish drug deaths hit five-year low

      Drug-related fatalities last year fell by 21% from 2021 but levels remain far higher than the UK average

      Syringes and other drug paraphernalia
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      UK politics
      Labour faces test of by-election appeal in Scotland after ex-SNP MP ousted

      Constituents trigger recall vote after Margaret Ferrier was found to have broken Covid travel rules

    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Scotland’s police chief defends conduct of SNP investigation

      Probe has moved beyond ‘initial complaints’ as scandal continues to trouble party leadership

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      UK politics
      Scotland calls on UK ministers to decriminalise possession of all drugs

      Ruling SNP calls for ‘bold and radical’ policy changes to reduce harm and deaths

      A needle and syringe being held in a safe space for drug users
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Auditors flag issue with Scottish National party’s accounts

      Accountants provide a qualified audit opinion after highlighting missing documents

      People take part in a pro-independence parade in Glasgow in 2019
    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      News in-depthScottish independence
      Scottish independence reset undermined by confusion over SNP strategy

      Mixed messaging highlights challenge facing first minister Humza Yousaf in trying to satisfy impatient members

      Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf after his speech at the SNP independence convention in Dundee on Saturday
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Scottish independence
      Scotland leader says poll victory will provide mandate to negotiate independence

      Humza Yousaf discards predecessor’s plan to use next UK election as a de facto referendum

    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Humza Yousaf to set out new Scottish independence strategy

      SNP leader will address special party conference in attempt to move on from crises

      Humza Yousaf
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Scottish politics
      Scottish government sets out plan for written constitution

      First minister Humza Yousaf wants to safeguard rights contained in the ECHR

    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Robert Shrimsley
      Johnson, Sturgeon, Corbyn and the price of radical certainty

      Warnings from seeing the UK’s three most prominent leaders — and the most monomaniacal — blow up

      Illustration of Johnson, Corbyn and Sturgeon as dark clouds over parliament
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