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UK and Ireland close to deal on NI border
Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael government is pleased with a concession wrung out of the UK promising continued regulatory alignment on regulations between Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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Independent Scotland ‘could keep pound for several years’
An independent Scotland could end up keeping the pound for several years while preparing to move over to its own currency, according to a report commissioned by the SNP. The Sustainable Growth Commission, set up to investigate the country’s future economic prospects, aims to show how Scotland could go it alone, but opponents say there’s…
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Scottish parliament rejects Brexit legislation
As if the divisions within the cabinet over Brexit weren’t trouble enough for the Prime Minister, a vote in the Scottish parliament today has paved the way for a potential constitutional crisis. The Scottish National Party joined forces with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens to vote down Theresa May’s EU withdrawal bill. At…
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Dr Philippa Whitford MP on breast cancer screening: ‘Why was this not noticed earlier?’
SNP MP Dr Phillipa Whitford is a breast cancer surgeon and co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on breast cancer.
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Angus McNeil: ‘Spain should be cast aside because of this’
Krishnan Guru-Murthy is joined from the Outer Hebrides by the SNP MP Angus McNeil. He starts by asking him about his reaction to today’s European arrest warrant for Clara Ponsatí, the former Catalan minister who has been in Scotland since October’s Catalonia’s disputed Independence referendum.
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Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont detained in Germany
Catalonia’s former President has been detained in Germany on an international warrant as he tried to enter the country from Denmark. Carles Puigdemont fled Spain after a failed bid by his regional government to declare independence in October. He faces up to 25 years in prison in Spain on charges of rebellion for organising October’s…
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Scots will pay different tax rates to the rest of UK for the first time
The Scottish government has today unveiled income tax changes which will for the first time see Scots paying different tax rates to the rest of the UK. The SNP minority government has proposed small tax increases for middle and high income earners, but says that a new “starter rate” will mean anyone earning less than £33,000 a…
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Irish Senator Neale Richmond: ‘Return to customs apparatus would threaten peace’
Irish Senator Neale Richmond, Brexit spokesperson for Fine Gael. the SNP’s Brexit spokesperson, Stephen Gethins, and Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi discuss the Brexit negotiations.
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Sturgeon announces publicly-owned energy company
Scotland’s First Minister has announced she is to set up a publicly-owned energy company able to sell gas and electricity at low prices. Nicola Sturgeon made the announcement as she wrapped up the SNP annual conference.
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Nicola Sturgeon on Catalonia, Scots independence, Brexit and Boris
Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, discusses the Catalonian referendum, Scottish independence, Brexit and Boris Johnson.
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Sturgeon says EU should mediate over Catalonia
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has told this programme the EU should mediate an agreement between the Catalan and Spanish governments. There’s significant support for the Catalan separatist movement at the SNP annual conference, but the leadership has been careful not to interfere in the dispute that has raged in Spain. Nicola Sturgeon has insisted…
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Brexit Reality: Should the Remainers accept or fight? Part One
We’re joined by a panel of Common Groud founder Hugo Dixon, Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse, Labour’s Stephen Kinnock MP, John Nicolson from the SNP, President of Bath Conservative Association Tony Clarke and pro-EU activist Madeleina Kay for the second debate in our Brexit Reality discussion.
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FactCheck: Labour and antisemitism
The Labour party finds itself in the middle of a row over antisemitism – in the week when the party will change rules to explicitly forbid antisemitism. FactCheck investigates.
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Sturgeon sets out Scottish government programme
What do you do if you have been in power for a decade and face attacks from a resurgent left and right? SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon took on that challenge today when she spelled out her Scottish government’s plans for the coming 12 months. The one per cent limit on public sector pay will go,…
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Anas Sarwar: ‘I wasn’t only one who was wrong about Jeremy Corbyn’
Following Kezia Dugdale’s resignation, two men are vying to become Scottish Labour’s sixth leader since the SNP took power 10 years ago: Anas Sarwar is a former deputy leader of the party north of the border; Richard Leonard is a former trade unionist from the pro-Jeremy Corbyn wing of the party.
