Jacob Rees-Mogg says he won't pretend to respect the Scottish Government "because it’s led by an SNP administration that I think is not in the interests of the people of Scotland"
EXC: Labour MP hopeful Laura McConnell said she does not trust 'Scots in general' in an unearthed tweet.
She is on the shortlist for the twinned selection of Livingston/Bathgate and Linlithgow
EXC: Questions for Joanna Baxter - a key figure in Unison's unique decision to continue school strikes next week, also a Keir Starmer ally and director of a Unionist campaign group...
Joanna Cherry, the SNP’s top legal mind, tells me she’s ‘cautiously optimistic’ the court will side with the Scottish Government. The ‘chattering classes’ pooh-pahed the prorogation case, she adds
EXC: BrewDog founder James Watt took a luxurious island holiday with his celebrity girlfriend Georgia Toffolo before deciding to axe the Real Living Wage for new employees at his company
An SNP source said: The fact that their chief negotiator, Ms Baxter, is the chair of Labour NEC and a prominent member of the Starmerite wing of their party might raise questions about whose interests she is working in."
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Since it's Christmas, this is the full - mental - email exchange between me and her office when we reported on her barmy claim that Albert Einstein once lived in her Glasgow home
🎈Finished my last day
@SWNS
today - been an amazing opportunity to learn and hear some brilliant stories from people about this mad world we live in. Absolutely buzzing to start
@ScotNational
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tomorrow at this nice calm period of politics 😇
Kenny MacAskill has claimed Scotland is being 'robbed' by the Berwick Bank windfarm project. We can reveal 44% of the power generated will be sent to England. Alba say it is being 'siphoned' from Scotland
Alison Thewliss absolutely furious as Tory Home Office minister suggests no refugees attended refugee festival - falsely claiming Scotland doesn’t take in any refugees
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'Bulls***', 'totalitarianism', and argument about a Suffragette-coloured scarf. This incredible Renfrewshire Council meeting was derailed for 10 minutes over one member's independence flag. 🏴
Is this the best meeting row since Handforth Parish Council?
NEW: Humza Yousaf says the SNP winning the most seats at the next General Election gives the Scottish Government a mandate to begin drafting a withdrawal agreement to end the Union
EXC: The PR guru for the anti-LEZ campaign in Glasgow once called gay men 'slobbering old queers'. Jack Irvine has also worked for Brian Souter and Nigel Farage
BBC News anchor tells us there is 'currently no leader of the SNP or first minister'... which might be news to Humza Yousaf, due to take place at midday today.
William Aitken, a Scot living in Barcelona who has been sentenced to five years in Spanish prison for his alleged involvement in a protest last year, held a press conference this morning, protesting his innocence and vowing to try overturn the sentence
🎈I've started this week as a reporter with SWNS Scotland. Still looking for news and human interest stories but now covering the whole country. Tips are always welcome and you can DM me or email hamish.morrison
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@Sean_Campsie
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I visited the home of the Killie pie today where
@Ianblackford_MP
heard of the extreme pressures facing businesses because of soaring fuel prices
@BrowningsBakers
on one hand, I would like to be able to use Twitter for work to find out about police incidents without hassle but on the other, being called a specky handjob was a refreshingly original insult
Leader of the House of Commons Mark Spencer says Tory MPs will have a free vote on the motion to refer Boris Johnson to the privileges committee. Debate on PM's lawbreaking is expected to start at 11.30am and will last until 5pm.
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@Glasgow_Times
Haw! Hamish the trainee!, try and start your career on the right foot, you will get more respect, just joining into the Scottish gutter press writing lies will leave you redundant!.
''riotous scenes saw memorial benches trashed'' this quote= Separate Entity FC fans
NEW: Workers at the 13th Note in Glasgow who were sacked after going on strike have won compensation from the venue at an employment tribunal (Pic:
@Gogsy
)
Some bright spark had the idea of attaching a picture to our author profiles, which means I am dealt devastating and accurate owns in the comments section on the reg
EXC: Speaking to the press for the first time, detained Stirling Uni student Muhammad Rauf Waris has accused the Home Office of 'mental torture'. He's been in Dungavel for two months now
Absolutely ridiculous - you can't have the party of government having these conversations behind closed doors. What will they be saying to members (the ones voting) they're not happy to say in public?
BREAKING: The SNP's leadership race hustings will be held behind closed doors with no public or media access.
The party has said that they need a "safe space for members to ask questions of the three candidates"
At the Royal Courts of Justice this morning for
@TommySheppard
’s hearing against the UK Govt. He’s bidding to have them release secret polling on support for independence
Not on at all, when was the last time you were in a library and there wasn’t someone reading a paper for free? Being informed and up to date without having to pay for it or navigate the internet for the privilege? Really upsetting
🚨 NEW: Kate Forbes's allies tell me there is a 'concerted effort' by the SNP 'establishment' to block her running for leadership in favour of John Swinney
One says Swinney got 'a million endorsements in about five minutes' and was benefitting from a 'big machine behind him'
If you enjoyed this and there are other candidates of any party you think merit a closer look, please get in touch. Sources protected, contact details in bio.
Beautiful words from our team that Jamie left behind and who he made such a massive impression on. He’s left a part of him with us and for that he will live on 💙🤍
@bass4themasses
@MahyarTousi
Stepney
Bow
Commercial road
Brick lane
Green lanes
Plumstead
There’s just a few
Some might be cultural tourists spots but all are somewhere you wouldn’t want to be at 2am
From where I'm standing it seems the Speaker has denied the SNP another debate on Gaza because it will cool down criticism from the right. The SNP will argue his job is still his primary concern and he's acting to neutralise a Tory rebellion against him.
🚨 NEW: Kate Forbes's allies tell me there is a 'concerted effort' by the SNP 'establishment' to block her running for leadership in favour of John Swinney
One says Swinney got 'a million endorsements in about five minutes' and was benefitting from a 'big machine behind him'
Labour appear to be trying to stall this SNP ceasefire debate - called a number of pointless points of order and now Chris Bryant (a man you'd put up to speak if you were trying to stall for time) is dragging out a 10 minute rule bill debate beyond its natural life span.
Rare that you get to big up your own neighbourhood in the papers but getting on 'cool lists' could risk pushing people who have lived their whole lives in the area - I spoke to Dennistounians about the good and bad of its reinvention
Judge Wright presiding in the UK Government's legal challenge against a First-Tier Tribunal ruling forcing them to release secret polling on support for independence. We're in the Upper Tribunal this morning. Things about to kick off shortly.
NEW: A Reform Party candidate hailed himself as 'the prophet of a new age' and called for state-funded prostitution
John Houston is contesting East Kilbride in the election and also said criminals should have their organs harvested
EXC: British Airways 'profiting from misery' with flight charges for Gaza escape family
Livingston MP Hannah Bardell blasted the company in a letter to Foreign Sec David Cameron