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Profile: Michael Settle

HeraldScotland:

Uk Political Editor

Not quite a Lobby veteran, but 16 years at the heart of power has taken its toll as my hair is turning white and politicians are beginning to recognise me. Remain sane, but still deeply sceptical.

Latest articles from Michael Settle

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer with deputy leader Angela Rayner during a visit to Birmingham before the Hartlepool by-election disaster

Michael Settle: It's time for Labour to step up and reinvent itself

Democracy, Winston Churchill famously said, was the worst form of government; except, that is, for all the others.

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Mike Settle: Sir Keir now faces a major rethink and reset

Michael Settle: Sir Keir Starmer now faces a major rethink and reset

KEIR Starmer’s silence and rictus grin, as he left his London home to run the media gauntlet following last week’s raft of bad election results for Labour in England, said it all.

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Analysis: No-show Boris in Scotland only weakens his case for saving the Union

Analysis: No-show Boris in Scotland only weakens his case for saving the Union

ABSENCE, they say, makes the heart grow fonder, but not it seems when it comes to Boris Johnson and Scotland.

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Mike Settle: Johnson struggling to paper over the cracks in ‘flatgate’

Mike Settle: Johnson struggling to paper over the cracks in ‘flatgate’

A DATE for your John Lewis diary: Wednesday, May 26.

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Douglas Ross has kept PM away during the election — but latest sleaze saga could prove costly

Douglas Ross has kept PM away during the election — but latest sleaze saga could prove costly

​Having successfully persuaded Boris Johnson to stay well away from Scotland in the run-up to the May 6 Holyrood poll, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives must be holding his head in his hands at the latest Downing Street drama that is producing another raft of negative headlines.

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McConnell: Cross border court over indyfef2 would be biggest dereliction of duty in modern UK history

McConnell: Cross border court battle over Indyref2 would be biggest dereliction of duty in modern UK history

A court battle between the UK and Scottish Governments over Indyref2 while the country seeks to recover from the ravages of the Covid pandemic would be the “most scandalous dereliction of duty in modern British and Scottish history,” Jack McConnell has insisted.

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Analysis: Tory cronyism row is the gift that keeps on giving

Analysis: Tory cronyism row is the gift that keeps on giving

TEXT message to Boris: hello chum, if you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.

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Mike Settle: Shameless attempt to uglify the beautiful game must be resisted by fan power

Mike Settle: Shameless attempt to uglify the beautiful game must be resisted by fan power

IT will be an Alex Ferguson hairdryer moment.

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Boris Johnson during a visit to Scotland.

Michael Settle: Will Boris announce Indyref2?

EVERY night, when Nicola Sturgeon retires to her bed, she could be forgiven for sleeping on a pillow with the Prime Minister’s smiling face on it.

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David Cameron

Michael Settle: Lobbygate exposes the cosy relationship between money and politics

SEX and politics has really only one rival for headline-grabbing at Westminster: money and politics.

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