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MSP who left the Tories amid concerns over his 'woke' views joins the Lib Dems ...

The Daily Mail 04 Apr 2025
The MSP who deserted the Scottish Tories before being deselected for his ‘woke’ views has jumped ship to the Liberal Democrats. Jamie Greene was unveiled as Holyrood’s fifth LibDem MSP at the party’s spring conference in Inverness ... SNP.
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EUAN MCCOLM: A rabble of rejects jockeying to replace hopeless has-beens. What IS the point of ...

The Daily Mail 04 Apr 2025
There are quitters across the political spectrum but most remarkable is just how many SNP MSPs are among them ... There is space, one senior SNP MSP concedes, for a populist message that says Holyrood has failed.
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GRAHAM GRANT: Good riddance to the wine bar revolutionary with reverse Midas touch | Daily ...

The Daily Mail 02 Apr 2025
But he made a spectacular hash of it by showing that he and his incompetent colleagues shared the SNP’s reverse Midas Touch when it came to policy-making and implementation. Now the Glasgow MSP is ...
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Scottish civil servants living just over Border ‘to avoid SNP taxes’

The Daily Telegraph 02 Apr 2025
Scottish Government civil servants are living just over the English border in Cumbria and Northumberland in an attempt to avoid the SNP’s “punitive” taxes, it has been alleged ... Jamie Greene, a Scottish Tory MSP, said.
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Police handling of MSP trans cat tweet row ‘unreasonable’

The Daily Telegraph 01 Apr 2025
Police Scotland falsely dismissed a Tory MSP’s complaints about the force ... Moreover, they have treated me as an opposition MSP differently from a SNP First Minister, with no credible explanation.
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We’re paying more tax but things are getting worse, complain Scots

The Daily Telegraph 31 Mar 2025
Scots are more likely than the English to think public services in their area have become worse, according to research that prompted criticism of the SNP’s record in power ... Fulton MacGregor, an SNP MSP, said.
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STEPHEN DAISLEY: Land reform...courtesy of people who think taking the scenic route home from Waitrose ...

The Daily Mail 30 Mar 2025
The committee, which is headed by SNP MSP Stuart McMillan, described the power to modify obligations on landowners as 'wide' and containing 'little detail' as to 'why the power is necessary or how it will be exercised'.
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Scottish Government minister Christina McKelvie dies aged 57: Tributes paid to SNP MSP | Daily ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
The SNP MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse had taken leave from her role as alcohol and drugs minister last year to seek treatment for secondary breast cancer ... Ms McKelvie became an MSP in 2007 ...
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Green light to boot out classroom thugs as education secretary backs heads over ban on ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
‘The SNP have presided over a decline in our schools and there must be urgent action to reverse it.’ ... The tougher SNP rhetoric on behaviour follows damning figures on spiralling violence in schools ... Last night Tory MSP Mr Briggs said.
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Major hospital was 'left without power for 70 minutes after backup generators failed during Storm ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
A major hospital was reportedly left without power for 70 minutes after backup generators failed during Storm Eowyn ... File photo ... SNP MSP Michelle Thomson told Sky News it has to be a 'wake-up call' for other hospitals and health boards in the area ... .
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Douglas Ross: Former Scottish Tory leader quits Holyrood to try to become MP

The Daily Telegraph 25 Mar 2025
Mr Ross said he would stand down as a Highland and Islands MSP at next year’s Scottish Parliament elections ... After losing the seat to the SNP, he has served as convener of the Scottish Parliament’s education committee since October.
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Scots overwhelmingly back Trident despite ‘out-of-touch’ SNP opposition

AOL 24 Mar 2025
The poll found 56 per cent of Scots thought Britain’s nuclear deterrent should be retained, prompting claims the SNP was “wildly out of touch” ... The SNP has insisted ... Gordon MacDonald, an SNP MSP, said.
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