Ms Gallacher had earlier alleged a “senior member” of the Tories had been calling party members to falsely suggest she was going to pull out of the race. A Scottish Conservatives spokesperson told the PA news agency: “The party has received a complaint and this will be i...
in both countries, particularly because, despite the fact that voters in both Scotland and Wales elected Labour candidates to theHouse of Commonsby anoverwhelmingmajority, the national government inLondonwas dominated continuously for more than 18 years by theConservative Party(1979–97). When the ...
Focuses on the division among the members of the Conservative Party over the repeal of a Corn Law in Scotland from 1846 to 1857. Factors triggering the political alignments during the period; Departure of some of the leading Peelites from the ministry of Viscount Henry John Temple Palmerston; ...
(MSP) in the new legislative body’s first election in 1999. For the next eight years the SNP was in opposition to aLabour–Liberal Democratcoalition. Sturgeon became one of the SNP’s more-prominent members, joining the party’s National Executive Committee and acting as its spokeswoman for...
At that point, the writing was on the wall. Green Party members were furious and called a vote on their future role themselves, which was due to take place in the next couple of weeks. It could be said Mr Yousaf saw what was potentially coming and decided to take charge of...
I am pleased to copy below the “open letter” from Jim Sillars, a former Deputy Leader of the SNP, to all “fellow members”. It is quite hard-hitting and is a plea from an icon of the Party before it is just too late to save the SNP and its fundamental aim of Independence for...
苏格 兰民族党(Scottish National Party)赢得最多席位(47 个),其后为苏格兰工党 (Scottish Labour Party)(46 个)、苏格兰保守和统一党(Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party) (17 个)、苏格兰自由民主党(Scottish Liberal Democrats)(16 个)以及苏格兰绿党(Scottish Green Party)(2 个),也选出了一名独立参选...
Opposition members at Holyrood in Edinburgh called instead for the idea of an independence referendum to be dropped altogether, with one member saying "the idea of independence is now dead." Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson called on Sturgeon to take the so-called indyref2 off the table...
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Annabel Goldie, Scottish Conservative leader, said she found “extraordinary” the possibility that Mr Trump’s representatives were party to any conversation between the government’s chief planner and the council leader on this issue. She said: “So far this has been a tale of denial, cover-...