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Keir Starmer wants closer relationship with Europe as PM makes vow over ECHR
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LETTER OF THE DAY 📨
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![Douglas Ross has announced his intention to stand down as Scottish Conservative leader](/resources/images/128x89/1x/18128283.jpg)
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![French President Emmanuel Macron](/resources/images/128x89/1x/18176843.jpg)
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![£134m is chickenfeed compared to the cost of Brexit](/resources/images/128x89/1x/12364072.jpg)
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LETTER OF THE DAY 📨
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Spotlight
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![Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is gearing up for a head-on confrontation with the EU](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17551754.jpg)
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![Doctors want legal measures to be brought in requiring health warnings to be put on cans and bottles containing alcoholic drinks.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17060491.jpg)
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![The upcoming European Parliament elections in early June are worrying many,](/resources/images/128x89/1x/10068182.jpg)
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![Diplomats in the European Union are unhappy about the proposed cuts to language degrees](/resources/images/128x89/1x/12564384.jpg)
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![Could having someone like David Cameron, who campaigned against Brexit, in the Foreign Office, help the case for an associate agreement with the EU?](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17446132.jpg)
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Letters
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![Sir Keir Starmer, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy prepare for their meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris earlier this month](/resources/images/128x89/1x/17262030.jpg)
![Sir Keir Starmer, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy prepare for their meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris earlier this month](/resources/images/180x180/1x/17262030.jpg)
Opinion
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![What are the implications of a Labour General Election for Scotland and the EU?](/resources/images/180x180/1x/10986259.jpg)
Opinion
![Lord Frost, left, and Michel Barnier](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16728236.jpg)
![Lord Frost, left, and Michel Barnier](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16728236.jpg)
![External affairs secretary Angus Robertson. Photo Colin Mearns/The Herald.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/9402349.jpg)
![External affairs secretary Angus Robertson. Photo Colin Mearns/The Herald.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/9402349.jpg)
![The scheme will help to recycle billions of bottles and cans every year, and will be the first of its kind in the UK](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16600600.jpg)
![The scheme will help to recycle billions of bottles and cans every year, and will be the first of its kind in the UK](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16600600.jpg)
![Rishi Sunak's Stormont brake backed in Commons despite Tory rebellion](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16586797.jpg)
![Rishi Sunak's Stormont brake backed in Commons despite Tory rebellion](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16586797.jpg)
![Former PM Boris Johnson with current PM Rishi Sunak.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/14075036.jpg)
![Former PM Boris Johnson with current PM Rishi Sunak.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/14075036.jpg)
![First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leaves the Holyrood chamber. File photo: Getty](/resources/images/128x89/1x/16470853.jpg)
![First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leaves the Holyrood chamber. File photo: Getty](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16470853.jpg)
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Exclusive
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![Greek MEP Eva Kaili](/resources/images/180x180/1x/16262253.jpg)
Unspun
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![A girl waves an EU flag overlooking a windfarm. The Scottish Government wants to take an independent Scotland back into the EU. Photo Colin Mearns.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13274706.jpg)
![The European Commission says new states must legally commit to joining the euro but it does not set a timetable to join.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/12564384.jpg)
![The European Commission says new states must legally commit to joining the euro but it does not set a timetable to join.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/12564384.jpg)
![Giorgia Meloni is favourite to win the Italian election](/resources/images/128x89/1x/15731848.jpg)
![Giorgia Meloni is favourite to win the Italian election](/resources/images/180x180/1x/15731848.jpg)
The Rundown
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![Cabinet Secretary for External Relations Angus Robertson will travel to Brussels this week in a drive to forge closer relations between Scotland and the European Union.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/12135819.jpg)
![Cabinet Secretary for External Relations Angus Robertson will travel to Brussels this week in a drive to forge closer relations between Scotland and the European Union.](/resources/images/180x180/1x/12135819.jpg)
![Remain supporters gather outside the Court of Session to hear the result of a petition asking judges to enforce a legislation passed by MPs aimed at preventing a no deal Brexit on October 9, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo Jeff Mitchell/Getty](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13826120.jpg)
![Remain supporters gather outside the Court of Session to hear the result of a petition asking judges to enforce a legislation passed by MPs aimed at preventing a no deal Brexit on October 9, 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo Jeff Mitchell/Getty](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13826120.jpg)
![Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy warned against tearing up the protocol](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13779636.jpg)
![Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy warned against tearing up the protocol](/resources/images/180x180/1x/13779636.jpg)
![Refugees walk after fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, Sunday, April 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)](/resources/images/128x89/1x/13643690.jpg)
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![It is the first time in its history the EU have approved sending weapons to a country outside the bloc.](/resources/images/128x89/1x/6676382.jpg)
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