Labour deal with SNP at Westminster would be an 'unmitigated disaster' warns Scottish party deputy

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has laid flowers at the scene of the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess - which police believe could be linked to Islamist extremism.

Green Ministers have been dismissed as “SNP lapdogs” over their non-attendance at Cabinet meetings.

Robbie Neilson is confident of tying Scotland hero Craig Gordon down on an extended contract - joking the Hearts number one is in line for a new 15-YEAR deal!

The SNP is being urged to investigate an MSP who admitted he attended an anti-abortion protest outside a clinic in Glasgow.

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A lifeline £10-a-week benefit payment for hard-pressed families is at risk over a failure by Scottish and UK ministers to strike a vital data deal.

Accident and Emergency waiting times have hit their worst level on record once again, with just 71.3 per cent of patients seen within the four-hour target.

A parliamentary inquiry must be launched into the Scottish Government's initial response to the coronavirus pandemic last year, Labour had demanded.

The SNP has achieved "diddly squat" at Westminster since the 2015 general election which saw the party win an historic landslide in Scotland, a former Holyrood minister has claimed.

Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater will tell members her party’s policies can change people’s lives after they entered a power-sharing agreement with the SNP.

The SNP will "crumble" when Nicola Sturgeon eventually steps aside from frontline politics, Alex Cole-Hamilton has predicted.

An SNP MP has publicly shared a message calling for a fellow Nationalist at Westminster to be expelled from the party.

car and stamped on her chest because she ran out of petrol has been handed an extended seven year prison sentence. Michael Wilkie, 29, throttled Natalie Livingstone, 26, and told her he would kill her as he pinned her to the ground in a lay-by at the side of the A9.

COVID vaccine passport scheme in Scotland.Earlier this week First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that the Scottish government would be delaying its plans for the implementation of the passports as a requirement for entry into the country’s nightclubs, after criticism from many establishments across the country.As the BBC reports, the delay came after a legal challenge from the Scottish nightlife industry who said the proposal was “discriminatory” and “disproportionate”.It has now been

governments ” playing the constitutional divide for their own ends, Keir Starmer will tell Scots today. In his first chance to connect with voters in a major speech, Starmer will accuse Boris Johnson of putting the United Kingdom in danger with a ‘cavalier” attitude to the Union and make a direct attack on Nicola Sturgeon’s track record at Holyrood.

NHS. It came as he demanded the SNP Government help the poorest pensioners pay their soaring energy bills.

Love Island star Dale Mehmet has dismissed any AJ Bunker romance rumours after they were pictured looking cosy at Liberty Poole's birthday bash and insisted that he is just a "friendly person".The Scottish barber, 24, also revealed that he wants to stay "single for a bit" after an "eventful summer" in the ITV2 villa and plans to "focus" on himself.

Scottish Government minister for failing to concentrate on “the day job” after he plugged his new book online. The spat came after Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture Angus Robertson took to Twitter to promote Vienna – The ­International Capital.

challenge facing Starmer at the next election. A briefing paper from the Scottish Fabians ahead of the party conference next week, highlights that of the 150 House of Commons seats Labour needs to gain at the next election 25 of them (17 per cent of the wins needed) are in Scotland.Labour was reduced to one Scottish seat in the 2019 election with the SNP taking 48 seats, the Conservatives six and the Lib Dems four.

Scottish Labour leader cited workers’ rights and laws regulating drugs as priorities for further devolution from London to Edinburgh. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Record ahead of the Labour conference in Brighton, the Glasgow MSP also warned he would be delivering “hard truths” about how the party needs to do better.