the party won more than 30 percent of the Scottish vote and took 11 of the 71 Scottish seats in the BritishParliament. In later years the party was supported consistently in opinion polls by 20 to 25 percent of Scottish voters, making it the second most popular party in Scotland after Labo...
Reform UK ?bullish and optimistic? as polls predict success in Scotland 1 Dec 2024 at 11:03am Recent polling puts party above 10%, which could result in up to 12 MSPs at next Scottish parliament electionsReform UK is celebrating ?an extraordinary sense of momentum? north of the border, as...
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she would campaign in the May 2021 Scottish Parliament election for a mandate to hold a vote on independence “in the early part of the new parliament,” which will run from 2021 to 2025. In a speech to a conference of her Scottish National Party ...
In 1998 the Scotland Act gave Scotland itsown Parliament. This meant Scottish people could vote on issues such as education, transportation, health care, culture and environmentalprotection in Scotland alone. T he next step could be a completely independent Scotland as its own country.Scottish ...
Byline: CHRIS DEERINLABOUR is to appoint a powerful 'sleazebuster general' for Scotland as it tries to repair its discredited town hall image, it emerged last night.The party will also campaign for the Scottish parliament on a pledge to clean up local government hoping to woo back ...
she had ever faced, sturgeon denied salmond's accusations that she had plotted against him and misled the scottish parliament. the feud between the pair, once close friends and powerful allies in the cause of scottish independence, has reached fever pitch in recent weeks, threateni...
The movement towards the setting up the Scottish Parliament in the 1990s, and then the debate in and around the Parliament since 1999, brought the need for a new analysis of Scottish politics, policy and society. Scottish Affairs provides that opportunity. Fully peer-reviewed, it publishes articl...
The SNP is almost certain to be re-elected in May's Scottish Parliament elections, quite possibly with a majority this time around. (For the past five years, it has been a minority administration propped up by the Greens.) With Alex Salmond's Alba party trying to skew the electoral system...
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 ...
Scotland has been treated even better than England such as the education expenses and it has its own Parliament, which means they are on half way to fully independence. So why dose Scotland want a divorce, after their 300-year co-operation? There are mainly two reasons.The first is that ...