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Andy Burnham's comments about independence would have been music to John Swinney's ears (Picture: Carl Court/pool)

Burnham is turning out to be bigger gift to SNP than bungling Boris Murdo Fraser

The report identified grave shortfalls in PPE equipment for NHS workers. Picure: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty

Nurses forced to wear bin bags during Covid as £10bn wasted on PPE

Kate Forbes (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Kate Forbes: I was 'slam dunk' for SNP leader until gay marriage row

Sir Keir Starmer gives his resignation speech.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg

Tories and Reform should do deal in Aberdeen South, says Rees-Mogg

Sir Keir Starmer in the House of Commons

Analysis Starmer enjoys playing the lawyer during Mandelson Commons session

A Ukrainian emergency worker tries to extinguish a fire following Russian missile strikes on Kyiv last month (Picture: Oleksandr Magula)

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Ambulances are regularly forced to wait outside A&E departments due to bed blocking (Picture: Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Use road dualling money to end bed blocking crisis

February 2021: Then prime minister Boris Johnson attends a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street after setting out the Government's roadmap out of the third Covid-19 lockdown (Picture: Leon Neal/Pool/AFP)

Readers’ Letters: Boris doesn’t deserve to be the Covid fall guy

Why we mustn't let Nicola Sturgeon rewrite history over Covid Brian Wilson

If Boris Johnson's government had acted more quickly to deal with the Covid threat, thousands of lives would have been saved (Picture: Ian Vogler/WPA pool)

Covid inquiry's savage criticism of Boris Johnson is warning to us all Scotsman comment

Nicola Sturgeon at the podium in 2020 for a Covid briefing. Picture: Jane Barlow/WPA Pool/Getty Images

Sturgeon 'sidelined' key advisers as Covid failure 'inexplicable'

Former prime minister Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson: New biography is wrong to claim Queen was a Remainer

A woman breaks down at the memorial to Yulia Waxer Daunov at the site of the Nova Festival in Re'im, Israel, where many people were killed during the Hamas-led October 7 atrocity (Picture: Leon Neal)

Boris Johnson got a lot wrong but he's right about Hamas and Israel John McLellan

Will Boris Johnson be tempted to review Nicola Sturgeon's new memoir, Frankly? (Picture: Duncan McGlynn)

Boris Johnson: 'Gender self-ID was a fatal error' by Nicola Sturgeon

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Ad Feature Children’s book Making Science Magical reaches #1 on Amazon in US & UK

A display stand of copies of former first minister Nicola Sturgeon's memoir Frankly at Waterstones bookshop on Glasgow's Argyle Street (Picture: Craig Meighan/PA Wire)

Readers' letters: Calling Nicola Sturgeon 'divisive' is Orwellian revisionism

Will Boris Johnson be tempted to review Nicola Sturgeon's new memoir, Frankly? (Picture: Duncan McGlynn)

Nicola Sturgeon v Boris Johnson: Two memoirs, two unreliable narrators John McLellan

BBC presenter Martine Croxall

BBC presenter makes 'quite a ride' comment over autocue refusal

Bosses at The National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh want the institution to become a destination of choice for weddings and other events (Picture: Neil Hanna/AFP via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Ssshh! Don't make historic library into events venue

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

Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson have gone down in British fishing history as two of the three Prime Ministers to 'betray' the industry (Picture: Toby Melville/WPA pool)

Why Scottish fishermen see Keir Starmer as the new Boris Johnson Alistair Carmichael

Boris Johnson decided to call Keir Starmer an 'orange ball-chewing manacled gimp of Brussels' after the recent UK-EU deal (Picture: Liam McBurney/pool)

Boris Johnson's 'gimp' outburst shows why Brexiteers need to move on William Deans

A general view of the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh

It is absurd Maggie Chapman could vote to save herself Alexander Brown

Nicola Sturgeon announces Usher Hall gig

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is still finding his feet

Five years into Starmer’s tenure, he still lacks a defining mission Alexander Brown

Donald Trump on a previous visit to his Aberdeenshire golf resort. Picture: Getty

Former Conservative MP and MSP lands new job with Donald Trump's firm

Then first minister Nicola Sturgeon gives a Covid-19 press briefing at St Andrews House on March 27 2020 (Picture: Michael Schofield - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Plan needed to avoid new pandemic carnage

Former health secretary Jeane Freeman with former first minister Nicola Sturgeon at the Scottish Parliament

Scotland avoided PPE ‘VIP lane’ due to devolution, Covid Inquiry told

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks to media in Edinburgh after announcing she won't seek re-election to Holyrood next year (Picture: Robert Perry/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon came so close to assuring a legacy to be proud of

Keir Starmer is making tough decisions

Cuts are popular but that doesn’t make them right Alexander Brown

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the media outside Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh after announcing she will step down from Scottish politics next year. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Analysis Sturgeon leaves as a divisive figure, but she remains box office

Emma Roddick MSP opens up on the death of her mother Sue to Covid-19

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer met in Washington DC - where the pair discussed a trade deal. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

Starmer passed Trump test, but must move past spending balancing act Alexander Brown

Boris Johnson will be appearing in Edinburgh in September

Boris Johnson charging £121 a head for meet and greet in Edinburgh

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon should walk away

Nicola Sturgeon should not run again as an MSP Alexander Brown

Starmer's silence on damage of Brexit down to fear of Farage Euan McColm

Kemi Badenoch is yet to find the right tone

Analysis PMQs: Kemi Badenoch starts well but then ruins it. The next lettuce?

Tourists on Edinburgh' Royal Mile as the Festival Fringe entered its final weekend in August 2024 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Tourist tax will deter visitors and harm hospitality sector

Scottish independence supporters march through Glasgow in 2019

Once in a generation claim in 2014 was 'turn of phrase', says SNP MSP

A general view of the front door of No 10 Downing Street in central London

Blue panels replaced in £80k Downing Street press room overhaul

We are not equipped to deal with riots in this country, and that’s good news Tom Wood

Wisely, Starmer is ignoring the advice of holiday-mad Boris to take a break Aidan Smith

Scottish Tory MSP Murdo Fraser has declared his bid for the party leadership

Exclusive 'This party is fractured': Tory veteran confirms leadership bid

Both Boris Johnson and Douglas Ross let the Conservative party down (Picture: Daniel Leal/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Tory leaders have let party down. I'll be different to Truss and Ross Murdo Fraser

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves making a statement in the House of Commons on public finances. Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

What Chancellor Rachel Reeves' spending cuts mean for Scotland

Boris Johnson became an ardent supporter of Brexit not because he believed in it, but because it was politically expedient for him. Picture:P Frank Augstein/Getty Images

Last thing Tories need is another leader pretending to be something they are not

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

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