Scottish Tories of fuelling divisions in the country by focusing on the constitution.
20.04.2021 - 10:10 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Scottish Water of sitting on half a billion pounds of surplus cash and demanded the money is handed to hard-pressed families. The 38-year-old also admitted his party had not been good enough in the past and made a personal appeal for voters to back him.
Sarwar is fighting the Holyrood election after being in post for barely two months. His party slumped to third at the last election and his ambition is to regain second place by leapfrogging the Tories.Sarwar’s pitch to voters is a “national
.Scottish Tories of fuelling divisions in the country by focusing on the constitution.
Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.The Scottish Greens, Conservatives and Labour have all won list seats in the West Scotland region as the final result was declared at Braehead Arena this evening.Russell Findlay, Jamie Greene and Pam Gosal were elected MSPs for the Conservatives, while Neil Bibby, Katy Clark and Paul O’Kane will represent Labour at Holyrood for the next five years.It will be a second term in office for Mr Bibby and Mr
beauty spot. The bird was spotted amongst empty bottles and smashed glass at Strathclyde Loch in Motherwell.
Neil Findlay said Sarwar’s campaign was simply a “rehash” of the 2016 election and urged Labour to recognise the right of the Scottish people to self-determination.Sarwar has been credited for the Holyrood election campaign he fought after taking over the leadership of Scottish Labour ten weeks ago.He rejected calls for indyref2 and made national recovery from covid his party’s top priority.However, although Labour held on to key constituencies yesterday, they could come third again for the
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Scottish Labour leader is determined to build a credible alternative to Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP but acknowledged he had work to do.It's been less than three months since Sarwar replaced Richard Leonard and despite an energetic campaign his party has trailed the Scottish Conservatives in recent surveys of voting intentions.But he made a direct pitch to Daily Record readers before polling stations open across Scotland.
sickening child porn images at his family home in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee. Andrews pled guilty to taking or permitting to be taken indecent images or pseudo images of children in Seafield Road between 8 and 11 November 2019.Andrews, 54, was the Director of Operations at the National Phenotypic Screening Centre in Dundee when his home was raided by police acting on information.
Aberdeen, contracted it while living in Liberia, West Africa, with her husband and three children in 2019. Now two years on, she regularly loses the use of her legs and struggles with daily tasks such as food shopping, preparing meals and playing with her children, saying she feels like a "different, weaker version of herself".
Nicola Sturgeon has thanked the people of Scotland for their sacrifices over the last year of the coronavirus pandemic. The SNP leader wrote an open letter which has been published in a number of Sunday papers including the Sunday Mail.
for the party in Angus South at next month's election, shared an image of him out sharing leaflets in a town that is no longer part of the seat. The wannabe MSP tweeted yesterday: "Great leaflet run in Forfar.
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.
Sarwar repeated his message that Scots faced a “pandemic election, not a normal election” and that recovering from Covid-19 was the main priority over independence.
Anas Sarwar has taken his election campaigning to the next level - by whipping out some top notch dad dancing. The Scottish Labour leader took some time out from canvassing in West Lothian to break out into an incredible routine outside the Tony Macaroni Arena in Livingston this afternoon.
benefits assessment.Elspeth Oakley also said they were asked about suicide attempts by private firm Atos after applying for a disability payment.Labour leader Anas Sarwar has demanded an end to “humiliating trials” for vulnerable benefit claimants after Elspeth’s ordeal.Hitting out at the questions asked by the medical testing firm, Elspeth said: “Those types of questions are incredibly inappropriate.
manifesto.Labour’s national recovery plan includes detailed policies for turning the country around, including a catch up plan for schools.One of the policy commitments is to strip away some of the financial support received by fee-paying schools.The manifesto states: “Scottish Labour will end all public sector support for fee-paying private schools, implementing the recommendations made by the Barclay Review to end their charitable status for rates relief as a contribution towards achieving a
Anas Sarwar has given his party a shot of self-confidence and the election is the first Holyrood poll Labour has enjoyed in years.However, Sarwar’s rising popularity does not appear to be reflected in Labour’s standing in the polls.Although they are eyeing second place, Labour could easily come third again and go backwards for the fifth Holyrood election in a row.Good presentation skills cannot provide a solution to the problem that has dogged every Labour leader since the independence
water bill rebate.He will also try to raise extra money by imposing higher taxes on online retailers.
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.
Glasgow Southside seat, has criticised the SNP leader for failing to keep her promises when she took over from Alex Salmond in 2014. During a TV interview Sarwar highlighted Scotland's awful drug deaths record which is currently the highest in Europe.