Scottish National Party

Iran Press TV Sunday, 26 April 2020 6:18 PM Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has once again intervened decisively in the UK's coronavirus crisis by proposing an alternative roadmap for her nation. Sturgeon, who is also the leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP), said Scotland could have a…

Most people in Great Britain think migrants working as healthcare and care workers, supermarket, farm and delivery workers should be offered citizenship. 25 April 2020 Is this a road to citizenship? | Peter Byrne/PA Wire/PA Images. All rights reserved. A majority of people in Great Britain support granting citizenship to…

CNA Staff, Apr 24, 2020 / 12:17 pm MT (CNA).- The president of the Scottish bishops' conference wrote Friday to the Scottish health secretary, saying the permission for women to self-administer both stages of a medical abortion at home during coronavirus is born of ideology rather than true concern for…

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden has indicated the government will not intervene in the proposed Saudi Arabia-led takeover of Newcastle. A £300m buyout of the north-east club, backed by the countrys public investment fund, is reportedly close to being finalise… Read More

Crowds on day four of the Cheltenham Festival | Tim Goode/PA Wire/PA Images A pro-betting Conservative MP is under fire over £4,000 worth of hospitality that he and his wife received from betting companies at the Cheltenham races – just days before the coronavirus lockdown last month.Laurence Robertson – whose…

The 2010s were the end of ‘the end of history.’ Beginning in the shadow of the largest financial crash since the Great Depression, it was a decade in which the injustice of austerity tore away at the social fabric and consigned third-way politics to the rearview mirror. In Britain, the…

Scottish First Minister wary of football behind closed doors Edinburgh (AFP) – Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon believes a return of football even behind closed doors risks boosting the spread of coronavirus as fans could congregate to watch games.Matches across Britain have been suspended indefinitely because of the virus.Strict measures…

A Conservative councillor has been suspended after allegedly baking a swastika onto a hot cross bun. The Tories launched an investigation into former Portsmouth lord mayor Lee Mason after a photo emerged of the baked goods, which also featured the words “sex” and “f***”. The Cosham ward councillor admitted making…

The Scottish government is prepared to diverge from the rest of UK on measures to tackle the coronavirus, Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon said this morning. "If I was being advised and the judgement I was applying to that advice told me that I had to do something different to the…

A Conservative councillor has been suspended after he allegedly baked a swastika into a hot cross bun and posted an image of it on Snapchat. The Tories launched an investigation into former city Lord Mayor Lee Mason after a leaked photo showed the hot cross bun with the Nazi symbol apparently…