Alba Party is 'manipulating' Holyrood election system, claims Willie Rennie

Brummie legend Emma Willlis is taking on a huge challenge in a bid to get everyone checking themselves for the signs of cancer. The TV star, born in Sutton Coldfield, is going on a 100km charity trek with friend and queen of the jungle Giovanna Fletcher in the Scottish Highlands.

Holyrood election, the former first minister said he would demand negotiations on leaving the union should begin in the first week of the new parliament. Salmond candidly admitted the manifesto "was not comprehensive" as his new party had only been launched last month.

First Minister was setting out his plans as he looks to create a "super-majority" for independence in the Scottish Parliament following the election on May 6. As the ex-SNP leader was laying out his strategy for independence the YouTube and Facebook links froze with Salmond's mouth left open.

Douglas Ross claimed Scotland cannot rebuild from the coronavirus pandemic until the "threat" of a second referendum is removed. The Tory MP claimed today that Nicola Sturgeon would "wreck" the economy if she persisted with plans for an IndyRef2 while society was still grappling with the impact of covid.

world has changed a lot since the last referendum in 2014, and that not just because of the coronavirus pandemic. During the campaign in 2014, Alex Salmond faced tough questions about what currency an independent Scotland would use if it voted 'yes'.

Douglas Ross being in charge of the Scottish Tories. He said: “My politics and his are different.

Scottish Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems to task for not holding the SNP to account during its time in power.The Former First Minister also took aim at Nicola Sturgeon's SNP government over some of its social and economic policies.He said the SNP needs to be taken to task on some issues and the 'Union parties' he claims are not doing that because they are too busy "decrying independence".It comes as a new opinion poll showed Alba were on course to receive five seats in the Holyrood chamber

Patrick Harvie said the gap between the wealthiest in society and poorest had only grown wider during repeated lockdowns. He said it was "crucial" for the most well-off to pay an increased share of taxation to help pay for Scotland's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Jim Sillars, who won the 1988 Govan by-election in a breakthrough moment for the Nationalists, said the argument for backing the new independence movement on the list vote was "incontestable".The Scottish political veteran fell out with Salmond in the early 1990s over differences in party strategy and became one of his most persistent critics in later years.But Sillars - who served as a Labour MP in the 1970s before later joining the Nationalists - has now pledged to back his former political

Douglas Ross was quizzed about the Prime Minister travelling north to participate in the Holyrood election that takes place on May 6. Just last month the part-time assistant referee revealed Johnson would join him in the lead-up to polling day.

May 6 when he had another technical mishap. During his YouTube speech on the Alba Party page the Apple AirPod was hanging out, it then fell out half way through.

Prime Minister and the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will join the campaign trail in a bid to boost the Tories flatline polling.

the independence debate and offering voters "very little else". Rennie made the remarks after a poll published yesterday predicted that Alex Salmond’s new party will be elected to Holyrood as part of a huge majority of pro-independence MSPs.

Alex ­Salmond’s Alba Party. In a video, Craig and Charlie Reid urge people to vote for the former first minister and his ­fellow candidates on May 6.It’s a huge coup for Salmond, who is hoping to be elected on the North East regional list.

Democrats. The assertion is based on a listing of the party's membership on its Wikipedia page, which shows numbers at 4,085 as of December 2018.

Chris McEleny, made the jump when the party was launched last week and will now stand on the party’s West Scotland list.

Alex Salmond’s hopes of returning to frontline politics could be in peril, as only 3% of Scots saying they would offer support at the ballot box. Only 10% of those surveyed rank the former First Minister favourability.

Alba Party leader said his new breakaway independence movement deserved a slot as it had a comparable number of members compared to the Lib Dems and Greens in Scotland, as well as more Scottish MPs at Westminster than Labour. The first leaders' debate took place on Tuesday night on BBC One and the next event is due to be broadcast on STV on April 13.

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Jayda Fransen will stand as an independent against both Nicola Sturgeon and Anas Sarwar in the Glasgow Southside constituency.