The leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) has hinted at plans to collude with anti-Brexit Tories and Labour to vote down Theresa May’s Brexit proposals and push through a “Norway model” exit.
LONDON (AP) – Scotland’s First Minister says her nationalist party will support a new referendum on Britain’s divorce from the European Union if Parliament gets a vote on it.
LONDON (AP) — Alex Salmond, the former leader of Scotland, is promising to take legal action against the Scottish government over the way it handled sexual harassment allegations against him.
Only 15 percent of Scottish teenagers want to see more immigration, according to an official study, the results of which will have come as a blow to the nation’s mass migration-backing political establishment.
The government should offer generous tax breaks to encourage prospective immigrants to move to Scotland, according to a Scottish National Party (SNP) report declaring mass migration-driven population growth a “top priority” for the country.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been slammed over guidance which claims that supposedly “offensive” terminology like “British values” could inspire terror attacks.
The Government has committed to scrapping the Fisheries Convention of 1964, allowing Britain to take back control of its territorial waters from the EU out to twelve miles – but fishermen are concerned that failure to commit to reclaiming the country’s full, 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) signals an impending betrayal.
LONDON (AP) — Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has delayed legislation that would have sought a second independence referendum.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has refused to rule out a third referendum on leaving the UK if she loses a second one, or to respect a moratorium on fresh referendums for a fixed period.
The Scottish National Party has demanded powers to control Scotland’s immigration policy in their general election manifesto – a move which would allow Free Movement and mass migration to the whole United Kingdom to persist via a Scottish “back door”.
Scotland’s first minister had conceded her country could not easily rejoin the European Union (EU) after independence but claimed it could pressure a “phased” approach to joining the bloc without adopting the euro.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of treating fishermen with ‘utter contempt’ after the EU confirmed an independent Scotland would have to surrender its grounds to Brussels as the price of readmission.
Former SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has dismissed the Conservatives’ “presumptuous” ambitions to capture his Gordon constituency on June 8th as “vainglorious boasts”.
SNP MPs representing fishing communities where support for Brexit is strong have broken ranks with the Europhile party line, signing a pledge calling on Scotland to leave the EU and take back its fishing waters.
Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to hold a second referendum on leaving the United Kingdom have suffered a blow after polls show barely a quarter of voters back the proposed ballot.
Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) that the opposition Labour Party are a spent force north of the border. She also called on voters to back her party to “reinforce” her mandate for a second referendum on leaving the United Kingdom.
Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has lambasted the Labour Party as “unelectable and utterly useless” during a fierce exchange in the Scottish Parliament.
The prime minister’s decision to hold a snap election has given her party a four-point boost in the polls, delivering the Conservatives a massive 24 point lead over their closest rivals, the Labour Party.
New research indicates Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish National Party are out of touch with the great majority of ordinary Scots on Brexit and immigration.
Scotland would be on the hook for an annual European Union (EU) membership bill of almost £1 billion a year if it left Brexit Britain to rejoin the struggling bloc, as a result of losing the UK-negotiated rebate.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for a more federal model of government in Britain as a patriotic, third way alternative to the SNP breaking up the United Kingdom and seeking readmission to the European Union (EU). Addressing the Festival
Scottish Nationalists (SNP) are to abandon plans to immediately re-join the European Union (EU) if Scotland leaves the UK, as polls show Scots are more Eurosceptic than ever before and currently reject independence.
Councils in Scotland are holding the government to ransom over asylum seekers by refusing to house any in their area unless the Home Office first hands over more cash.
The Scottish government will start preparing the legislation required for a new referendum on independence from the United Kingdom in case it is needed, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish parliament on Tuesday.
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday that the government would not trigger Article 50, the formal trigger of divorce talks with the European Union, until a “UK approach” had been agreed.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission rolled out the red carpet for Scotland’s first minister on Wednesday, hours after outgoing British Prime Minister David Cameron told an EU summit his country would be leaving the European Union following last week’s
Scotland’s Muslim Minister of Europe and International Development has been sworn into the new session of the Scottish Parliament, with the Pakistani-oricin Humza Yousaf choosing to take the oath to Her Majesty the Queen in his native language of Urdu.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Saturday her separatist party would make a renewed push to convince Scots of the case for independence from the United Kingdom. The Scottish National Party leader told the left-wing secessionists’ spring conference that a
Prime Minister David Cameron’s proposed European Union (EU) reforms would not fundamentally change Britain’s relationship with the bloc and there is no certainty anything promised would actually be delivered, a committee of lawmakers said on Tuesday. Last month, Cameron set
Scotland’s pro-independence newspaper The National has published a front page welcome to the first wave of Syrian migrants offered asylum by the British government. Around 100 Syrian migrants are due to arrive at Glasgow airport today aboard a charter flight;
Each year for the last eight years I have convened a panel to compile a list of the Top 100 Most Influential People on the Left. This year our panel was comprised of a Member of Parliament, a local government leader,
London (AFP) – Scottish nationalists will propose holding a new referendum on independence from the rest of Britain, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday. Sturgeon said her pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) would set out a timescale for
David Cameron is preparing to accept around 15,000 Syrian refugees and would like to commence military action against Islamic State (IS) militants within a month, senior sources have said. Details of Britain’s refugee resettlement programme are currently being finalised after
LONDON (AP) — The former first minister of Scotland says a second referendum on Scottish independence is “inevitable.” Legislator Alex Salmond told BBC Sunday that the British government has not followed through on post-referendum promises to give Scotland more powers.
Scotland’s Minister for Europe, Humza Yousaf, has taken to Twitter to bemoan ‘Islamophobia’ following Breitbart London‘s reporting on his self-professed “radical” background, and comments about wanting more migrants in the United Kingdom. Yousaf, whose pedigree Breitbart London has previously reported on, has claimed
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The Scottish National Party MPs who turned up to the Queen’s Speech sporting the White Rose of York, long a Jacobite symbol, are evidence of this. I suppose it’s possible they could just be showing their support
The Scottish National Party’s 56 newly-elected MPs hit the bars of the Palace of Westminster after arriving for their photo-call with Nicola Sturgeon yesterday. Both the Strangers’ Bar and the Sports And The Social Club stood four deep as the newbies
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has launched its manifesto pledging a deal with Labour that would see £140bn of extra public spending. The party promised to hike taxes, cut the nuclear deterrent and increase welfare payments. Nicola Sturgeon launched the
An inquiry has been ordered into how a civil servant’s account of a meeting between Nicola Sturgeon and the French Ambassador was leaked to the Telegraph. The memo contained the revelation that Sturgeon had admitted that she would rather see
Britain would be forced to scrap its independent nuclear deterrent as part of a deal to put Ed Miliband into Number 10, according to Nicola Sturgeon. The SNP leader confirmed her party would never vote to replace Trident and the
