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Alexander Brown is the Westminster Correspondent for the Scotsman, as well as a columnist with Scotland on Sunday.

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Centre for Cities claim directly-elected mayors receive more investment, better infrastructure, and faster growth.

Glasgow needs a mayor or risks being left behind, think-tank says

Scottish Labour's Sarah Boyack is standing down at the next election

Edinburgh and Lothian MSP Sarah Boyack to stand down at next election

Nicola Sturgeon criticised Rupert Everett

Nicola Sturgeon labels actor 'deeply misogynistic' after 'witch' jibe

Rejoice or repent, Alexander Brown is leaving The Scotsman

Scottish politics isn’t necessarily as bitter and divided as it seems Alexander Brown

Defence spending rises are outpacing other sectors such as health and social care. Rachel Reeves, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, set out aims for the UK to be a "defence industrial superpower" during the government's Spending Review.

Tax rises likely if economy shrinks further, IFS warn Rachel Reeves

Shona Robison and Ian Murray

Analysis Spending Review sees UK Government gamble on trust, not just spending

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her Spending Review to MPs

Scotland to get £52billion in Spending Review

The University of Edinburgh is set for the UK’s most powerful supercomputer

£750m Edinburgh supercomputer to be confirmed in spending review

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will deliver the spending review on Wednesday

Explainer Rachel Reeves spending review - the timings and how it works

Funding for the Acorn Project should be confirmed on Wednesday

Acorn project funding to finally be announced in Spending Review

Torness nuclear power station. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

SNP must embrace opportunities of nuclear energy, GMB Scotland say

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has announced a U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire

Explainer What the Chancellor's spending review will mean for Scotland

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has given more detail about the UK government's plans for the winter fuel allowance

Labour urge SNP not to rob poorer pensioners after winter fuel U-turn

Scottish Labour's leader and deputy, Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie, celebrate Davy Russell's election as the MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

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HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Rosyth in Fife, Scotland, and sailing under the Forth bridge.

Exclusive SNP say UK must ‘rethink priorities’ ahead of strategic defence review

Keir Starmer criticised Nigel Farage over the doctored video

Starmer issues 'trust' declaration over Reform's manipulated Sarwar ad

A Palestinian man holding a child looks on as children sit inside a house targeted in an Israeli strike at the Nuseirat camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip. Picture: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images

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Scotland Office Minister Kirsty McNeill urged the Scottish Government to do more

UK minister slams SNP Government over lack of skills for young people

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage is frequently attacking Labour

Analysis Labour allowed Farage to claim Reform are 'party of working people’

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Explainer Arrests, protests, and fleeing the pub - Farage's visits to Scotland

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Michelle Mone is the subject of a new BBC documentary

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Scotland's First Minister John Swinney and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer are working on a "reset" of relations

Analysis Starmer and Swinney meet while still working out relationship 'reset'

Far-right will exploit pay gap in care to fuel division, FM warned

Sir Keir Starmer was urged to abolish the two-child benefit cap

Labour urged to reverse other benefit changes after winter fuel U-turn

People from trans rights groups and community organisations during a rally organised by Resisting Transphobia outside Queen Elizabeth House, the UK Government building in Edinburgh, following the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman in equalities law

Gyms and hospitals able to 'request birth certificates' to prove sex

Stephen Flynn was less critical of the deal than the First Minister

Wrong to call EU 'reset' trade deal a 'surrender', Stephen Flynn says

Ursula von der Leyen and Sir Keir Starmer have been involved in talks to reach the new deal

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Keir Starmer, seen shaking hands with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, is seeking to remove barriers to trade with the European Union

EU talks go 'down to wire' as SNP demand return to bloc

Michael Gove said support would need to be “overwhelming”

Indyref2 could happen if support 'overwhelming', Michael Gove says

Sir Tom Hunter criticised the Scottish Government.

Scotland facing 'managed decline' under SNP, Sir Tom Hunter warns

Sir Keir Starmer has a new approach to immigration

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