Retiring MSP calls for SNP to work with new Alba party

former SNP leader only launched the breakaway pro-independence movement last week and succeeded in persuading two MPs and several serving councillors to quit the Nationalists to join him. Salmond tried to persuade SNP voters to back Nicola Sturgeon in constituencies and lend his new party their support on the list vote in an attempt to create what he termed a pro-independence "supermajority" of MSPs.

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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 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.

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.

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.

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'.

the SNP on 36% on the list vote and 47% at constituency level, which would be enough for 63 MSPs. The Conservatives would emerge the second biggest party on 26 seats with Labour on 20, the Greens on 10, and the Lib Dems on 5.

Alba Party spells trouble for the Union – but they struggled with the basics at a photocall yesterday.The former SNP leader and some of his candidates seemed to have difficulty lining up letters in front of a backdrop of Stirling Castle.Salmond launched a blistering attack on the BBC and STV for not being included in the leaders’ debates during the Holyrood election.He said: “In little more than two weeks, Alba has become the story of this election campaign.Indeed half of the entire press

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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

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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh will take place on May 11 - days after the election. Ahmed Sheikh, a former SNP MP who also once stood for the Tories, was recently unveiled as a candidate for Salmond’s new pro-independence party.

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.