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
Power hungry Alex Salmond has a new demand – he wants control of the BBC in Scotland to be brought under the purview of the Scottish Parliament, effectively turning the independent broadcaster into a state propaganda machine for the Scottish
The Scottish National Party has been accused of “infiltrating” local schools in order to “brainwash” pupils into supporting Scottish Nationalism. Michael McCann MP claims to have seen evidence from a local SNP meeting, where delegates boasted of “sterling work” being
Some of Scotland’s biggest political names are on course to lose their seats in two months’ time as a result of an unprecedented surge by the Scottish National Party (SNP). The former Liberal Democrat leader, Charles Kennedy, is currently polling
Scotland’s biggest conservation charities have called for an overhaul of the planning system, citing fears that Scotland’s government is too biased towards wind energy. Alarmed by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s ambitions for even more wind farms in Scotland, they have
The Scottish National Party is threatening to undermine the independence of Scotland’s universities, according to a group led by the University of St Andrews. The universities claim their academic independence it under threat because the SNP wants to “bring politicians
Scottish Ministers are deliberately misleading the Scottish public by pretending that their objections to fracking are environmental rather than political, a leading expert has angrily stated. He has been backed up by Scottish Conservatives, who have accused the Scottish National
