Nicola Sturgeon signals she would urge SNP MSPs to vote against Alba independence motion

covid pandemic. He replaces Jeane Freeman, who retired as an MSP at the last election.A Scottish Government press release said: “Humza Yousaf becomes Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, with responsibility for the NHS, including ongoing health service remobilisation as we move out of the pandemic.

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

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.

Scottish Government's traffic lights system - similar to the one announced by Boris Johnson in England - will come into effect from Monday. Countries are to be classified as green, amber and red and a review will take place every four weeks.

Alba Party leader - who failed to win a seat at last week's Holyrood election - warned that any delay would allow the UK Government time to plan its response. He told the BBC the time to press for an IndyRef2 would be “now” and added he was “not in favour of this idea you should delay to after covid, to after the recovery, towards the end of the second part of this parliamentary term”.

SNP leader to make its case as he urged Boris Johnson to reform how the UK is run to blunt nationalist demands for independence.

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.

64 MSPs, one up on the number the party achieved in 2106.

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First Minister arrived at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow today to send a message to Boris Johnson and the UK Government - don't pick a fight with Scotland.The SNP leader visited the counting venue to congratulate the party's activists and candidates after they won another landslide across the city.Turning to the national picture after two days of ballot counting, Sturgeon said the Nationalists had increased their number of votes won and their vote share and the party should now be allowed to

Nicola Sturgeon was yesterday confronted by a far-right bigot who is standing against her in the Holyrood election. Ex-Britain First leader Jayda Fransen was filmed approaching the First Minister as she left a polling station in the Glasgow Southside constituency.

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”.

SNP would fall agonisingly short of an overall majority. Expert Sir John Curtice said a polling average put Nicola Sturgeon ’s party on 64 seats – one shy of outright victory.

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.

Nicola Sturgeon today confirmed that her “number one priority” is keeping Scotland safe from coronavirus. It comes after Alba, a rival pro-independence party headed by Alex Salmond, called for action on independence immediately after next month’s Holyrood election.

Anas Sarwar today accused the Scottish Government of having “failed” children as he argued that the next Parliament should be focused on recovery from the pandemic rather than another independence referendum.