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26 May 2021 13:00

Boris Johnson rejected lockdown pleas because Covid 'only kills 80-year-olds' thenational.scot/...s/?ref=rss

DOWNING Street has refused to deny that Boris Johnson said "Covid is only killing 80-year-olds" as he dismissed pleas for a second…

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Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford tell PM to cut the bluster at Covid summit thenational.scot/...t/?ref=rss

THE first ministers of Scotland and Wales have united to tell Boris Johnson to drop the bluster at the proposed coronavirus recovery summit.

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SNP MSP in bid to save banking museum thenational.scot/...m/?ref=rss

AN SNP MSP has written to the chief executive of TSB to ask them to reconsider their decision to close the Savings Bank Museum in Ruthwell.

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Time to tell it as it is. The real stumbling block in the Peoples Action was the supposed party of independence....

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SNP lay out how to use independence to build on achievements of devolution thenational.scot/...n/?ref=rss

SCOTLAND can use independence to build upon the achievements of devolution, according to a report setting out a route map for a fairer nation.

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Scottish Government to invest more than £500 million in ferries, MSP announces thenational.scot/...s/?ref=rss

THE Scottish Government will be investing more than half a billion pounds into ferry services over the next five years, an SNP MSP has announced.

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Alba: Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill replaced on Westminster committees thenational.scot/...s/?ref=rss

THE SNP is to replace the Alba Party defectors on its committees today.

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Voter ID plans may have unintended consequences for the Conservatives thenational.scot/...e/?ref=rss

THERE is a widespread

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Boris Johnson and other senior Tories could be forced to reveal private messages thenational.scot/...s/?ref=rss

A LEGAL bid has been launched to stop Boris Johnson and his ministers from deleting communications that would show how they made decisions during…

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Nicola Sturgeon update: FM may be able to relax 'tough' Covid restrictions thenational.scot/...s/?ref=rss

THE success of the vaccine programme means that the Scottish Government may not have to rely on “tough restrictions” going forward, Nicola…

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Le Monde: French newspaper celebrates Holyrood's diversity thenational.scot/...y/?ref=rss

A MAJOR French newspaper has hailed the diversity in the Scottish Parliament after MSPs took their seats in Holyrood.

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SNP call for release of long-delayed disability reforms in light of damning report thenational.scot/...t/?ref=rss

THE SNP have called on the UK Government to release a long-delayed disability reforms report in light of new research showing 70 of disabled people…

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Nadia Whittome to take 'several weeks' off work due to PTSD thenational.scot/...d/?ref=rss

THE UK’s youngest MP has been told by her doctor to take "several weeks" off work after being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress…

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Nicola Sturgeon 'changed tune' on indy to win votes, former Sunday Times editor says thenational.scot/...s/?ref=rss

THE former editor of the Sunday Times has claimed Nicola Sturgeon “changed her tune” on independence to bag votes – despite a referendum being…

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Why Scotland's farmers face a post-Brexit massacre – and England’s don’t thenational.scot/...t/?ref=rss

PRIME Minister Boris Johnson, his Agriculture Secretary George Eustice, his Scottish Secretary Alister Jack and the Scottish Tory leader Douglas…

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SNP and Greens slam Priti Patel's claim Britain voted for her immigration plan thenational.scot/...n/?ref=rss

WE didn’t vote for this and we’ll resist – that’s the message Scottish politicians have sent to Priti Patel after she insisted the British…

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Boris Johnson ranted about Shakespeare at People's PMQs on day of Covid meeting thenational.scot/...g/?ref=rss

BORIS Johnson did not miss five key Cobra meetings at the beginning of the pandemic because he was writing a book on William Shakespeare.

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Royals have dropped any pretence that they are neutral on independence thenational.scot/...l/?ref=rss

IT must now be blatantly clear to anyone with a pulse that the royal family have abandoned any pretence of neutrality over Scottish independence…

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UK bans flights to Belarus and pulls airline's licence over Ryanair 'hijacking' thenational.scot/...g/?ref=rss

THE Tory Transport Secretary has told the UK's independent aviation regulator to instruct planes to avoid Belarusian airspace following the forced…

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No 10 denies Boris Johnson skipped Covid meetings to write Shakespeare book thenational.scot/...k/?ref=rss

NUMBER 10 has rejected reports Boris Johnson missed emergency coronavirus meetings so he could fund divorce proceedings by penning a Shakespeare…

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