He was Chief Executive of the SNP from 1994 to 1999 and was elected to the Scottish Parliament as a regional MSP for the South of Scotland at the first Scottish Parliament elections in 1999. However, he lost his seat in the 2003 Scottish Parliament Election. He was elected ...
parents, local authority councillors, Members of the Scottish Parliament and Members of the UK Parliament, and the general public – to write to the University Court to ask that they break the silence and for management to come clean about its priorities. “ ...
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A ban of 10 days or more would be enough to trigger a recall petition in Westminster, however the Scottish parliament has no such mechanism. Labour MSP Martin Whitfield, the committee convener, said the sanctions reflected the seriousness of the breach. He said: "Had it not been fo...
InBritain’s1992 general election, Sturgeon was Scotland’s youngest parliamentary candidate, still some weeks short of her 22nd birthday. She won a seat as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) in the new legislative body’s first election in 1999. For the next eight years the SNP was...
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Speaking at the annual general meeting of the Scottish Department of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on 6 June,Scottish Nationalist MSP Roseanna Cunningham advised pharmacists to be proactive in their dealings with the Scottish Parliament.The Pharmaceutical Journal Group...
I said to him then, and I say it now, for a male to challenge a sitting (and well-respected) female MSP in his own party who herself was selected via an all-woman shortlist was never going to sit well. Flynn hasn’t just exposed a personal hypocrisy and managed to tacitly criticise...
"This sets a very dangerous precedent as civil servants are obliged to appear before our parliament's committees." Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton commented: "Leslie Evans is picking up a huge salary and a vast pension, the bare minimum that we should expect of her is...
If he loses the vote, the SNP would then have 28 days to find a new leader who could command the confidence of parliament. Failure to do so would trigger a new election. Ash Regan defected from the SNP to become Alba’s only MSP; she is expected to set out a list of demands in ...