Liz Truss woeful on how she would help someone on 10k a year. Trots out her national insurance cut, only to be told by Kay Burley this person doesn’t earn enough to pay NI
Asked by Ian Blackford about funding to Scotland as a result of the end of mass testing across the UK, the PM effectively says the Scottish Government can fund it themselves
The prize for the most brutal question of the day goes to
@STVColin
, who asked the First Minister:
"What will we get first - a ferry or a referendum?"
NEW: The Scottish Tories say they will give Nicola Sturgeon a "last chance" to quit on Tuesday.
If not, they will proceed with a Vote of No Confidence on Wednesday.
Breaking: The Scottish Tories will this week lodge a motion of no confidence in Deputy First Minister John Swinney over the refusal to release the Government’s legal advice over Alex Salmond’s judicial review.
I am hearing the Scottish Greens will back the motion of no confidence in John Swinney unless the Government provides the Salmond Inquiry with the evidence it needs
SNP figures are blaming the Labour council in Edinburgh for the bin strikes in the city, so does the same logic apply to the looming walkouts in SNP-run Glasgow?
SNP MSPs who voted against the Government's gender recognition bill:
Callaghan, Stephanie
Ewing, Fergus
Gibson, Kenneth
Maguire, Ruth
Mason, John
Regan, Ash
Thomson, Michelle
Wow. Duncan Hamilton has sent a submission to the Holyrood Inquiry on the meeting between Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon in 2018:
He writes: “I can confirm that the First Minister did offer to assist.”
Reaction to Nicola Sturgeon WhatsApp deletions:
Jackie Baille: "A shocking betrayal."
Alex Cole-Hamilton: "One of the biggest scandals in Scottish political history."
Douglas Ross: "Sturgeon’s reputation now lies in tatters.
Opinion | Nicola Sturgeon's WhatsApp deletions are a betrayal of the people of Scotland.
✍️ For many Scots her name will now be synonymous with scandal and secrecy.
Leadership favourite Liz Truss in the Sunday Telegraph completely ruling out
#indyref2
if she becomes PM. Much harder line than current ‘now is not the time’
Douglas Ross called for the First Minister to quit before the Holyrood inquiry report was even published.
We now have confirmation the PM is to be fined. Will DR call for him to go?
Nicola Sturgeon very unconvincing when trying to defend the the £3k a day rate paid to Tim Hair for his work on the ferries
#FMQs
Anas Sarwar: "Were you signing Lionel Messi?"
“I left Scotland, uprooted my family, disrupted my children’s education, and started afresh because the higher rate income tax allowance is a bit better in England”*
*said nobody
Labour peer Lord Foulkes responds to Henry McLeish backing independence:
"I have heard of rats leaving a sinking ship, but I have never heard of rats joining a sinking ship."
Much is made of people in middle Scotland paying more in income tax than those in England.
But they also do not pay for prescriptions, higher education tuition and a range of other so-called 'free' things.
🚨 EXCL: All 32 councils leaders in Scotland, including from the SNP, have signed a letter to the First Minister complaining about an "unacceptable" £371m cut to local authority budgets
I've reached a wounding conclusion after watching the Euros. Scots see England as their main footballing rival. Folk from England do not see Scotland in these terms.
I don’t see how the Scottish Tories will win a single extra vote at the Holyrood election with their current strategy of throwing everything at Nicola Sturgeon.
Folk want a vision of a positive and upbeat future, not a scorched earth policy.
Alex Salmond last month: Nicola Sturgeon breached the Ministerial code of conduct and her husband + allies plotted to have me imprisoned.
Same man this month: let's build a super-majority together!
I'd loved to have been in the room when, after a truly awful day for the Prime Minister, a civil servant said to him: "Time for your 4pm with the First Minister of Scotland."
The SNP suspend Patrick Grady for 2 days and the Scottish Government refuses to reveal the outcome of bullying claims against Fergus Ewing.
Nicola Sturgeon's party will struggle in the future to demand transparency from others with any credibility
I reckon the SNP will be regretting not putting some of their best MSPs on the Holyrood Inquiry. The standard of questioning was, to put it mildly, unimpressive
New: The Tories will push ahead with a no confidence vote in Deputy First Minister John Swinney on Thursday if the legal advice for the Salmond Inquiry has not been published in full by then.
Green co-convener Patrick Harvie very critical of the Holyrood Inquiry. Don't expect his party to support a motion of no confidence in the First Minister
The Scottish Government intends to release the the legal advice to the Salmond Inquiry tomorrow after it looked like a no confidence vote would succeed
On the Scottish Tory plan for a council tax freeze, worth repeating that the main beneficiaries would be folk living in Band H houses - ie wealthy Conservative voters
NEW: "Bombshell" SNP Cabinet minute shows Sturgeon Government considered independence reboot during lockdown.
But on the same day she told Scots:
"We're not dealing with politics at the moment."