Ukraine war: Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross withdraws no-confidence letter in Boris Johnson due to Russia invasion In a U-turn on his call for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to quit, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross says "the middle of an ...
She posted: “As the Honorary President of the Scottish Conservative Women’s Organisation, as a MSP, and as a woman, I am deeply shocked and troubled by this alleged abuse of authority. “Especially where a woman’s future within the party was reportedly threatened for calli...
Mr Briggs replaces Liam Kerr, who takes on the role of shadow justice secretary, as the new Scottish Conservative leader, Russell Findlay, today unveiled his shadow ministerial team. The new party leader said his line-up would “stand up for everyone who feels disillusioned with the sta...
"But if he's unsuccessful in getting to Westminster, he'll hang around in the Scottish parliament despite the fact that he's now lost the confidence clearly of his colleagues and has resigned as the leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland." Mr Swinney said "picking and choosing" parli...
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson called on Sturgeon to take the so-called indyref2 off the table for the remainder of Scottish parliament. "Why won't Sturgeon just take this off the table for the duration of this parliament," said Davidson. ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Backers of the union of the United Kingdom's four nations should boycott any "wildcat" independence referendum for Scotland, the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party said on Monday, after the nation's first minister pressed ahead with plans for a vote. Sc...
Despite the opposition of theConservativeParty and theHouse of Lords, the government adopted aproportional representationsystem for elections to the new parliament, which made it possible for the SNP to extend its influence. At the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in May 1999, the SNP est...
Dugdale said that far from giving Scottish people a choice, a second independence referendum would increase uncertainty and cause greater division as Britain faces a hard Brexit under May's Conservative government. Willie Rennie, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats leader said his party will also...
“A potentially illegal referendum next year is the wrong priority for Scotland,” Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said. “We won’t play Nicola Sturgeon’s games. We won’t take part in a pretend poll when there is real work to be done.” Like Wales and Northern Ireland...
“You can’t have a Scottish Tory leader saying ‘Vote Conservative’ at a general election if they’ve called for their national leader to resign,” he said. “This makes Johnson fighting the next election untenable, unless the party accepts a total wipeout in Scotland.” ...