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Political reporter @ScotNational based in Westminster | hamish.morrison @thenational .scot T: 0141 302 6166/07481840306 RTs/likes =/= endorsement

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@HMorrison97
Hamish Morrison
2 years
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"
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1 year
Graham Linehan is at the gender critical rally in George Square
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2 years
I’m at Glasgow Central with the Scottish Resistance as they prepare to storm Scottish Power’s HQ @ScotNational
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6 months
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
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8 months
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...
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2 years
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
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2 years
Good come back from Mhairi Black on this union joke about her recent marriage @ScotNational
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6 months
Mind this? The parliamentary investigation into Stephen Flynn allegedly misusing official stationery concluded today by dismissing the complaint...
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Hamish Morrison
10 months
SNP are handing out mugs in Westminster today comparing Keir Starmer’s stance on the two-child benefit cap to China’s one-child policy 😬
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4 months
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
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11 days
‘I once briefed the press Susan Hall would beat Sadiq Khan to become mayor of London’
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19 days
NEW: Humza Yousaf is ‘coming out fighting’ a senior Scottish Government source tells me - the FM isn’t stepping down despite speculation
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Hamish Morrison
10 months
SNP are handing out mugs in Westminster today comparing Keir Starmer’s stance on the two-child benefit cap to China’s one-child policy 😬
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2 years
Tories like John White are obsessed with 'cleaning up Glasgow' - while their activists litter in people's closes...
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3 months
The SNP have walked out of the commons chamber
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Mairi McAllan tells MSPs the Scottish Government wants to explore creating a TfL-style integrated ticketing system for the whole of Scotland
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Hamish Morrison
8 months
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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2 years
🎈Pleased to say I am now covering politics @ScotNational - please send all tips, tattle, gossip and mischief to hamish.morrison @newsquest .co.uk - DMs always open as well
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1 year
I spoke with protesters at the gender-critical rally and the LGBT counter-protest in Glasgow today - here's what they had to say
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5 months
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
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2 years
Police observed gatherings in Downing Street - and did NOTHING
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
🎈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 😇
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
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
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1 year
NEW: I’m moving to London to cover Westminster for @ScotNational incredibly excited to get stuck in
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11 months
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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Hamish Morrison
2 years
This couple I met while vox popping Tory members leaving last night’s hustings had impeccable comic timing
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4 years
Please don’t retweet Nigel farage even to say he’s talking shite. His views on Glasgow aren’t relevant ever and certainly not in this situation
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
@HertsHuntSabs Hi there, I am a reporter with the press agency SWNS. Can you please DM me or give me a follow back so I can message you about this? Thanks
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
This is worth all six minutes. Watch it
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The National
2 years
'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?
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Hamish Morrison
11 months
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
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Hamish Morrison
9 months
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
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Hamish Morrison
13 days
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.
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
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
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2 years
Alba MPs are not swearing allegiance to the new King today. We have the full story
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The National
2 years
Alba MPs will not swear an oath of allegiance to the new King
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Hamish Morrison
3 months
But Stephen Flynn is having none of it. Accuses the Speaker of treating the SNP with 'complete and utter contempt', says his position is 'intolerable'
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Hamish Morrison
3 years
🎈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 @swnsmediagroup .com
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Hamish Morrison
20 days
A Green source texts calling for Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater to quit as leaders. Also a stinging broadside about Ross Greer
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Hamish Morrison
3 years
It’s a year today since I had my fist front page splash with @Glasgow_Times
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Hamish Morrison
9 months
@pam_doove @Sean_Campsie Hi Pam, I’m a reporter with The National. I was wondering if you could drop me a DM about this or follow me back so I can message you about this? Thanks
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
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
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Hamish Morrison
1 month
EXC: Scottish Labour candidate John Grady boasted of helping an energy firm successfully battle Ofgem 'price controls'
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Hamish Morrison
2 months
EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Corbyn tells me he hopes to hold onto his seat at the election - setting Labour on course for a fierce battle in Islington North
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Hamish Morrison
5 months
Think you'd struggle to write a funnier parody of this sort of thing than what is being delivered in earnest here. Every line more mad than the last
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richard dickson everyone
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
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
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
I was told by three separate men to stop filming and taking photographs. Once by the police
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Hamish Morrison
3 years
I love Glasgow
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
Just heard a man asking for a roll and black pudding with mayonnaise. We have strayed so far from God’s light
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
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. @ScotNational will have the latest
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Hamish Morrison
2 years
Watch: Michael Gove can't justify voter ID laws with facts and figures
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
Covering the Unison protest for pay rises for NHS staff at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary today @Glasgow_Times
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Hamish Morrison
3 years
Putting this in my very important Career Advice From Randoms on Twitter folder
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@HMorrison97 @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
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Hamish Morrison
6 months
I’m paraphrasing here but they basically said: ‘This is not worth our time’
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Hamish Morrison
29 days
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 )
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
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
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Hamish Morrison
3 months
David Linden approaches the bench and tells the deputy speaker: ‘This is unacceptable’
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
At George Square for today’s protest - large police presence around the corner. Covering for @Glasgow_Times
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Hamish Morrison
9 months
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
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1 year
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?
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1 year
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"
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Hamish Morrison
8 months
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
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Hamish Morrison
6 years
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
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Hamish Morrison
15 days
🚨 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'
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Hamish Morrison
12 days
SNP Islington branch nails it’s colours to the mast
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Hamish Morrison
3 years
Kids in Ruchill, Milton and the Wyndford have this to look forward to as lockdown restrictions are eased
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
My two exclusives in today’s @Glasgow_Times #buyapaper
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Hamish Morrison
3 years
Well done to @SpringburnYF which has won funding for its pupil-designed park at Springburn Academy 👏
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Hamish Morrison
6 months
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.
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Hamish Morrison
3 years
I’m never going to settle on good enough words to remember Jamie by so I’ll just leave it by saying I miss him terribly 💙
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3 years
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 💙🤍
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19 days
NEW: Humza Yousaf is in Dundee today for a 'major' housing policy announcement SG source says: 'It will show people what Humza Yousaf stands for'
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Hamish Morrison
3 months
Green Lanes is a no go area if you are a kebab and I am walking back from the pub on a Saturday night
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@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
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Mulling the great questions of the age like, ‘What is devolution’, ‘who is the Scottish Secretary’, ‘where am I’?
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Scottish lobby journos @AndrewJQuinn97 and @HMorrison97 keeping a watchful eye over the politicians at the Scottish Affairs Committee this afternoon.
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3 months
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.
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Hamish Morrison
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An SNP insider texts to knock back suggestions of an establishment stitch-up bluntly: 'Is there fuck'
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Hamish Morrison
15 days
🚨 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'
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Hamish Morrison
3 months
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.
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
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
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Hamish Morrison
3 months
A teary Speaker says he regrets what has happened tonight and takes responsibility - 'it ended up in the wrong place' and apologises to the SNP.
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Hamish Morrison
8 months
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.
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Hamish Morrison
1 month
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
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Hamish Morrison
4 years
Hail Hail to the chief 🍀
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Hamish Morrison
29 days
In her new book 'Ten Years to Save the West', Liz Truss reveals her love of the Hippy Chippy in Paisley
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6 months
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
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