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...Round on the Links The link, for this week’s Burns Night, was Scottish politicians John A MacDonald Darling river Campbell’s Soup Cans (Andy Warhol) Steel Ewing Oil (Dallas) Sturgeon Dewar’s Brown...
...Sturgeon and John Swinney, who was her deputy and responsible for co-ordinating Scotland’s Covid recovery until he also stepped down in March, were the most senior Scottish officials to be questioned by...
...Nicola Sturgeon’s husband has been arrested for a second time, there are allegations swirling around Conservative MP Mark Menzies and Greater Manchester police are investigating Angela Rayner....
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...Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, said that if Labour’s performance was replicated across Scotland it could win 42 Westminster seats — compared with just one before...
...Bookmakers have made Angus Robertson, Scotland’s secretary for the constitution and external affairs, the early favourite to replace Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader and Scottish first minister....
...Both Tony Blair and John F Kennedy won power at the age of 43: Blair talked up a “young country”; JFK was the symbol of an optimistic future after two terms of Eisenhower, by then 70....
...Sir John Curtice, one of Scotland’s leading pollsters, will also have interesting things to say about the state of British politics later that evening....
...“With the link unravelling, every seat is marginal,” said Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde university....
...Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde university, said the SNP’s great strength in recent years had been its near monopoly of the support of people who would vote “Yes” to independence in...
...John Swinney, 58, deputy first minister and acting finance secretary, is considered among the SNP’s safest pairs of hands....
...“Women, girls and LGBT people in particular have a lot to thank her for in terms of protection and advancement of their rights,” said Kezia Dugdale, director at the John Smith Centre, which promotes trust...
...“Sturgeon was clearly no longer in control of the party’s strategy,” said Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde university....
...Sturgeon’s WhatsApps | Nicola Sturgeon gave a clear commitment two years ago to forward all government WhatsApp messages and Covid communications to any subsequent public inquiries into how the pandemic...
...“Under Nicola Sturgeon’s administration, the sense from many within businesses is that it’s not quite about the economic growth, and it’s more about the social justice agenda,” said John Boyle, director...
...John Swinney, who has held the post for more than nine years, said it had been an “honour to serve Scotland”....
...“So far Labour has not demonstrated much of an ability to win back votes let alone reduce levels of support for independence,” says Professor John Curtice, one of the UK’s foremost pollsters....
...Sir John Curtice, politics professor at Strathclyde university, cautioned that “how long a row about two prisoners is likely to be sustained is debatable”....
...John Major had won more votes five years earlier. The national rapture cooled with a speed that exposed how frail it was to begin with. None of this is criticism of Blair....
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...The next UK election must be held no later than January 2025 However, dropping the “de facto referendum” plan would make the SNP “a laughing stock”, said Sir John Curtice, leading pollster and politics professor...
...Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde university, said Labour was enjoying a bounce in opinion polls because of the SNP’s difficulties....
...John Swinney, deputy first minister, said it was legitimate for SNP party members who will choose the next leader to make a judgment on Forbes’s stance on gay marriage....
...It was the biggest swing towards Labour in Scotland since world war two,” said John McTernan, a former Downing Street aide to Tony Blair....
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