Alex Salmond says 'Scotland must have its own currency now' as he sets out Alba Party plans

The Former First Minister is standing for his new Alba party on the North East Scotland regional list. The pro-independence party has put up 32 candidates across the country in a bid to create a "super-majority" for 'yes' in the Holyrood chamber.

BBC One Scotland and the BBC News Channel for the fourth and final time of the election campaign tonight. Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Douglas Ross (Scottish Conservatives), Anas Sarwar (Labour), Willie Rennie (Lib Dems) and Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens) will all face questions from BBC Scotland Political Editor Glenn Campbell on the show which kicks off at 7.50pm.

Alba’ s position was for Scotland to pay no share of the UK national debt if independence is achieved. When Salmond was first minister, the SNP Government explicitly said Scotland would agree a share of the national debt as part of an independence settlement.In an interview with the Record, Salmond said the previous position had been based on a currency union with the rest of the UK.

Alba Party instead.The councillor for the Maryhill ward is a former business manager for the SNP administration on the council.Letford will appear alongside Alex Salmond when the former first minister hosts a campaign session in Glasgow tonight as the election campaign enters its final week.He said: “I have left the SNP and joined the Alba Party because I want to work towards achieving Scottish independence.

Alex Salmond’s Alba party. SNP defector and Alba candidate Caroline McAllister proudly posted pictures of her campaign “team” last week – including John Tough, whose victim suffered more than 50 horrific injuries. See more. A man who was caught with images of women having sex with dogs - and thousands of child abuse images - has been told he's made his final court appearance in connection with the case.

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.

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Douglas Ross is not interested in uniting the country or prioritising a national recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The Moray MP and part-time assistant referee is set to launch the Tory manifesto later which is expected to oppose a second independence referendum.

Alba, stands for. Asked about if she would work with the former First Minister, Sturgeon said she still has "concerns about his personal conduct".

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

SNP, which he used to lead, he quoted late poet Edwin Morgan who said the parliament should not be a place for “fearties”.

Alba Party took aim at his successor as SNP leader today after Holyrood election campaigning resumed. Salmond hit out following remarks by Sturgeon that an IndyRef2 may have to be delayed if Scotland's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic takes longer than expected.

former First Minister also hit out at an apparent absence of “will, determination and statecraft” over the last seven years - the period in which Sturgeon has led the country.Salmond launched a new pro-indy party, Alba, in the wake of his bitter fallout with Nicola Sturgeon.Alba’s aim is to secure a “super majority” of pro-independence MSPs and is only contesting the regional List elections for Holyrood.However, despite preaching pro-independence unity, Salmond has criticised his predecessor’s

Lorna Slater, who jointly leads the Scottish Greens, of not mentioning independence during a TV debate.

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

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.

Garraway and Adil Ray on his party's ambitions for the Scottish Parliament elections on May 6. Both hosts were keen to speak to the 66-year-old about his court case where he was cleared of sexual assault in 2020, and his relationship with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

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