Political News Archive

  • Major Crimes Unit to probe complaint over Matheson's George Square role
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    THE Labour leader of Glasgow City Council is to be investigated by the Major Crimes Unit over alleged misconduct during the £100,000 contest to redesign George Square, Police Scotland confirmed last night.

  • Tories to recognise marriage in tax system before election
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    DAVID Cameron has made it clear that he intends to recognise marriage in the UK's tax system before the next General Election.

  • Galloway: Ed Miliband is a lying coward
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    THE prospect of a reconciliation between Labour and George Galloway has evaporated after Ed Miliband branded the Respect MP's views awful and the Scot hit back dismissing the party leader as a coward and a liar.

  • Cameron rules out sending British troops into Syria
    Saturday 27 April 2013

    David Cameron has virtually ruled out sending British troops into Syria after growing evidence chemical weapons have been used against rebels in the civil war.

  • Salmond leads tributes after death of politician
    Friday 26 April 2013

    THE flags at Holyrood are at half-mast in mourning for one of the Parliament's own, the SNP's Brian Adam, who was hailed by the First Minister as "an outstanding politician, a fine human being and a dear friend".

  • Concern at tax switch delay
    Friday 26 April 2013

    THE Conservatives have claimed uncertainty over details of the replacement for stamp duty could delay or scare off major investment in Scotland.

  • Fox: We must reconnect with Thatcherites
    Friday 26 April 2013

    The Conservatives must reconnect with voters who rallied to the party under Margaret Thatcher, former Cabinet minister Liam Fox will argue today.

  • Holyrood to debate press charter
    Friday 26 April 2013

    SCOTLAND'S response to plans to regulate the press with a Royal Charter are to be debated at Holyrood.

  • Johnson quip as brother is hired
    Friday 26 April 2013

    BORIS Johnson has expressed delight that there is "finally a Johnson in No 10".

  • Galloway's support for Miliband
    Thursday 25 April 2013

    GEORGE Galloway has endorsed Ed Miliband, saying he wants to see the Labour leader as Prime Minister, "the sooner the better".

  • Miliband blasts Unite leader
    Thursday 25 April 2013

    Ed Miliband has slapped down the leader of Labour's biggest trade union donor, accusing him of disloyalty and a "reprehensible" attempt to divide the party.

  • Newspapers face losing millions if they reject press regulation scheme
    Wednesday 24 April 2013

    NEWSPAPERS face losing £4 million in taxpayer-funded Scottish Government public notices if they refuse to join a new press regulation scheme, MSPs have been told.

  • Unemployment among women rises to 25-year high
    Wednesday 24 April 2013

    WOMEN'S unemployment is rising to a 25-year high while men's is falling, leading to a female unfriendly labour market, new research says.

  • Council tax rise could help ease reforms impact
    Wednesday 24 April 2013

    LABOUR has called for an end to the council tax freeze in Scotland as a radical way of fighting the effects of a "bedroom tax" and other welfare reforms.

  • Neil faces snub at alcohol pricing meeting
    Wednesday 24 April 2013

    HEALTH Secretary Alex Neil is walking into a euro-snub today as he takes the message on minimum alcohol pricing to Brussels.

  • Balls trails Osborne in poll
    Wednesday 24 April 2013

    Ed Miliband pledged not to ditch Ed Balls after a poll suggested more people have faith in Chancellor George Osborne on the economy.

  • Thatcher 'plotted to defeat miners'
    Tuesday 23 April 2013

    Margaret Thatcher began plotting to defeat the coal miners from the day she took office, according to her official biography published today.

  • Lords critical of proposal to opt out of European policing measures
    Tuesday 23 April 2013

    BRITAIN'S security would be adversely affected in a significant way if the UK Government went ahead with opting out of a raft of European police and justice measures, a highly critical House of Lords report has said.

  • Row over ferry performance
    Tuesday 23 April 2013

    Campaigners seeking improvements to a Clyde ferry service that receives a subsidy of £1.7 million a year, say new figures disprove official claims it achieves near-100% performance.

  • Holyrood prepares way for UK press regulation
    Tuesday 23 April 2013

    THE Scottish Government has prepared the way for Scotland's newspapers to be included in a UK-wide system of press regulation, it has emerged.

  • Murphy guarded about Labour spending
    Tuesday 23 April 2013

    LABOUR may not match spending plans set by the Coalition at the next election, a shadow Cabinet minister has suggested.

  • Coalition in veto warning over currency union plans
    Tuesday 23 April 2013

    THE Coalition will today send the strongest signal yet that the UK could veto a currency union with an independent Scotland as the "significant economic risks" would be too great for it to bear.

  • Tories call for tough laws on strikes
    Monday 22 April 2013

    Tories have demanded a clampdown on trade unions in a show of "Thatcherite zeal" aimed at stopping a wave of industrial unrest.

  • Business leaders back bid for new EU deal
    Monday 22 April 2013

    Hundreds of British business leaders have called on Westminster to negotiate a better deal for the UK with Brussels.

  • Sarwar calls for inquiry on employment blacklists
    Monday 22 April 2013

    SCOTTISH Labour deputy leader Anas Sarwar has called for a Leveson-style inquiry into employment blacklisting, as his party sought to reach out to trade unionists.

  • Galloway cools talk of comeback
    Monday 22 April 2013

    GEORGE Galloway has played down claims Labour leader Ed Miliband is trying to engineer his return to the party.

  • Battle on youth unemployment
    Monday 22 April 2013

    SCOTLAND'S Youth Employment Minister Angela Constance has vowed to "fight tooth and nail" to avoid a lost generation of jobless young people.

  • Economy teeters on edge of triple-dip recession
    Monday 22 April 2013

    Crucial economic figures will this week reveal if the UK managed to dodge a triple-dip recession amid mounting warnings over the strength of the recovery and the latest downgrade blow.

  • Sheridan juror escapes legal action
    Sunday 21 April 2013

    PROSECUTORS have decided not to launch criminal proceedings against a juror in the Tommy Sheridan perjury trial who posted comments about the case on Facebook.

  • Clegg: there will be no lurch to the right
    Sunday 21 April 2013

    Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg told his party colleagues yesterday that the UK Government would not "lurch to the right" while he remained in the Cabinet.