Symbolic move as Angus Robertson takes over Nick Clegg’s Deputy Prime...
It is certainly fun that the last occupant of the offices of the new Leader of the Westminster group of SNP MPs – who is to be elected unopposed today, in the familiar authoritarian choreography of...
View ArticleSalmond to shadow Foreign Affairs, including Europe, for the SNP
Angus Robertson, the SNP’s Westminster Group Leader, has made his first shadow spokesperson appointments from the 56-strong group of SNP MPs in the House of Commons.The major appointment of Economic...
View ArticleScottish election analysis
Total immersion in number crunching and interpretation completed, the texture of this unforgettable election result in Scotland creates a memorable and, in some cases, perhaps a surprising picture.The...
View ArticleSalmond off piste already – briefing the media on SNP debate and strategy on...
The SNP just cannot keep Il Magnifico in his box. They sit on the lid and he bursts out of the side of it.They gave him Foreign Affairs to keep him busy on extra-territorial matters but here is Alex...
View ArticleSalmond campaigning to be SNP’s representative on Intelligence & Security...
Media sources have indicated to us that Alex Salmond MP is campaigning to be the SNP representative on the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Select Committee [ISC].Often disguised in media...
View ArticleThe Carmichael lie: another grubby pot condemns the leaking kettle
As is clear from our immediate and excoriating piece, we hold no brief to defend the conduct of the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Liberal Democrat, Alistair Carmichael MP. Nor do we see any...
View ArticleBitter alone or together, SNP will deliver for Cameron
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon says through clenched teeth that she will never share a platform with Prime Minister David Cameron in the campaign to persuade voters to keep the United Kingdom a member...
View ArticleThe dash from full fiscal autonomy and the biteback of the ‘no detriment’...
The SNP Scottish Government has spent the time since indyref 1 repeatedly calling for ‘full fiscal autonomy’. This has virtually been their stated price for staying in the United Kingdom – until...
View ArticleProvoked by woman MP, Salmond loses temper in Commons
Having become overused to speaking with neither interruption nor scrutiny during bis lordship in Scotland, former First Minister, Alex Salmond, is finding his return to the House of Commons...
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