Nicola Sturgeon insists 'arrangements will be in place' to prevent a hard border under independence

Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the city of Glasgow will remain in level three for another week after a spike in covid infection cases.She said there is evidence suggesting the outbreak, concentrated in the south side of the city, is being driven by so-called Indian variant.Glasgow, like most of the country, was due to go to level 2 on Monday.Going to this level would have meant pubs being able to

Level Two restrictions from Monday, however Moray is expected to remain at Level Three due to the number of cases in the region. The island communities are expected to move down to Level One.

Nicola Sturgeon as he backed calls for another independence referendum. The Line of Duty star said the SNP leader was the 'most competent' person to lead Scotland to recovery following the economic fallout from coronavirus lockdowns.

Nicola Sturgeon admitted there was a level of concern about the number of new cases linked to the Indian variant which has spread across parts of Europe. The Scottish Government's National Clinical Director Professor Jason Leitch said cases in Scotland's biggest city are higher than they would like and urged people to follow the rules to stop the further spread of the variant that has killed thousands in India.

Nicola Sturgeon admitted there was a level of concern about the number of new cases linked to the Indian variant which has spread across parts of Europe. The Scottish Government's National Clinical Director Professor Jason Leitch said cases in Scotland's biggest city are higher than they would like and urged people to follow the rules to stop the further spread of the variant that has killed thousands in India.

six-week campaign that saw her party return 64 MSPs - one short of achieving an overall majority. Scotland's recovery from the devastating coronavirus is Sturgeon's top priority but behind the scenes she will have to draw up plans to appoint new Cabinet Secretaries after several stepped down at the election.

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First Minister made the claim to the Prime Minister during a telephone call following the SNP’s election victory.

Ross, who heads to Holyrood as leader of the largest opposition party with 31 Scottish Conservative MSPs, signalled he will not be relying on numbers to stop the SNP’s independence plans. At a press conference to mark his return to the Holyrood chamber, the Moray MP and now list MSP, spelled out why UK cabinet minister Michael Gove was confident the referendum bill would not end up with the UK government taking the Scottish Government to the Supreme Court.

year. The SNP leader appeared on the BBC Andrew Marr Show where she was asked about her plans on the constitution after Greens secured a majority for independence in the Holyrood chamber.

64 MSPs in the 129-seat parliament which is one short of a majority however with the eight Scottish Greens elected there is a majority of independence parties. Sturgeon said her priority following the election would be to focus on Scotland's recovery from the devastating coronavirus pandemic.

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defeated Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar by 19,735 votes to 10,279, the First Minister said her party is set for a fourth term in power. The SNP leader had played down the likelihood of an overall SNP majority at Holyrood, saying it has “always been a very, very long shot”.

Alex Neil said while there must still be focus on tackling the coronavirus pandemic after Thursday’s election, there “is no reason why we should not also be pursuing our constitutional demands at the same time”.

Today programme the SNP leader said the Scottish Government would negotiate terms to "allow businesses to keep trading". Sturgeon said: "This is the frankness that certain sections of the media will seek to stir up trouble on - I am not denying that we would need to confront and resolve the issues of being in the European Union for the border between Scotland and England.

Alex Salmond 's Alba party which would instruct the Scottish Government to open discussions with the UK government immediately. Throughout the campaign the SNP leader has said her party would look at the independence question following the coronavirus pandemic.

SNP leader used an interview with an Irish newspaper yesterday to explain there would be detailed work to minimise "any practical difficulties for businesses" that rely on cross-border trade.The UK Government and the EU spent years negotiating how to avoid a hard border between the Republic of Ireland, which remains in the Euro bloc, and Northern Ireland after the UK voted for Brexit in 2016.Sturgeon said the resulting deal offered an example of how an independent Scotland would handle a border

Alex Salmond and the Greens would quickly put the parliament and the First Minister off the road. Rennie said the prospect of nationalist in-fighting dominating the parliament would see Scottish politics “bedevilled” by the constitution for another five years.

Labour leapt on the controversy which was given oxygen when an SNP candidate last week claimed a hard border with England would create jobs. Sturgeon faced tough questions on potential border arrangements in a fractious Sunday morning interview with Andrew Marr in which she also admitted that the SNP had done no modelling on the economic effects of independence.

could create jobs in the south of the country. But the First Minister insisted: “Nobody in the SNP wants to see a border between Scotland and England”.