‘Everyone has to reach their own decision’: Jenny Marra on politics and family
North-east Labour MSP Jenny Marra says part of her "felt guilty" for choosing not to stand in May's Holyrood elections to focus on her family.
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Finance Secretary to outline ‘most important Budget since devolution’
The Scottish Government’s latest Budget will be the “most important in the history of devolution”, Finance Secretary Kate Forbes has said.
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Boris in Scotland: Gove says PM’s lockdown trip ‘essential’
Michael Gove has supported Boris Johnson's trip to Scotland to build on the nation's Covid recovery despite the current travel ban.
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Boris Johnson tells Scots ‘the best way to build our Covid recovery is as one United Kingdom’
Boris Johnson will arrive in Scotland on Thursday with a plea for unity, as Britain looks to build back from the pandemic in the months and years ahead.
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Erasmus: Westminster saw exchange scheme as ‘too European’
Universities in Scotland have been "blocked" from taking part in the Erasmus exchange programme partly because Westminster deemed it "too European", it has been claimed.
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Sturgeon demands details of Kenny MacAskill’s 340-mile lockdown round trip
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked party whips to investigate travel and living arrangements made by one of her MPs, Kenny MacAskill.
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EXCLUSIVE: How Westminster U-turn derailed Scotland’s PPE plans
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Plans to spend millions of pounds replenishing Scotland’s supply of life-saving PPE were shelved after a last-minute intervention by Westminster.
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EXCLUSIVE: The cost of Downing Street’s devolution review
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A Downing Street review of how devolution is working has cost taxpayers more than £13,000, we can reveal.
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SNP defends Kenny MacAskill’s lockdown relocation – 170 miles from constituency
The SNP has defended MP Kenny MacAskill's two 500km round trips to visit his constituency from his second home in Banffshire.
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Register to vote: Everything you need to know about postal voting
Scottish electoral officials believe more than two million people could register for a postal vote ahead of May's Holyrood election but there are concerns a completely mail-in ballot could disenfranchise upwards of 1.5 million voters.
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Shielding may have offered ‘relatively modest’ additional protection from Covid
Shielding advice for the most vulnerable Scots may have offered only "relatively modest" additional protection from coronavirus and less stringent measures may have delivered similar results, according to a new report.
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Alister Jack: ‘Now is not the time’ for independence referendum
Alister Jack has batted away SNP demands for a second independence referendum, calling on the party to instead focus on rebuilding society and the economy in the wake of the pandemic.
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