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The going of Alex Salmond
We might have been sitting in an undertaker’s waiting room. Something was afoot. You could have cut the air with a knife.
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We might have been sitting in an undertaker’s waiting room. Something was afoot. You could have cut the air with a knife.
Alex Salmond announces he is to stand down as SNP leader and Scotland’s first minister, one day after the Scottish people voted against independence.
Alex Salmond announces his resignation as Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader after failing to achieve a yes vote in the independence referendum.
Gary Gibbon reports from Edinburgh as Alex Salmond lays out more detail of his plans for an independence referendum.
Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond is urging Chancellor George Osborne to reconsider the “smash and grab” raid on North Sea oil revenues during meetings at the Treasury.
The Scottish National Party has made big gains in elections north of the border. One political expert tells Channel 4 News the Scottish Labour party has suffered a “devastating defeat”.
Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants a public inquiry into her government’s response to the pandemic to start later this year.
The Scottish Parliament is about to vote on a motion of no confidence in the SNP’s Deputy First Minister John Swinney. He’s expected to see off the challenge, but it’s a reminder of the seismic shock to Scotland’s politics caused by the Alex Salmond affair.
Iain Macwhirter is a writer and columnist who’s supported independence but is critical of the Scottish government and its treatment of Alex Salmond.
For eight hours today, politicians on the committee investigating whether the Scottish government mishandled harassment complaints against Alex Salmond grilled his successor Nicola Sturgeon over whether she had breached the ministerial code.
Alex Salmond gives a quietly spoken but furious attack on his successor Nicola Sturgeon at Holyrood committee.
Minister Nicola Sturgeon clashes with Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson following ‘cover-up’ allegations.
Alex Salmond was expected to appear at a Holyrood inquiry, but in the last few moments we’ve found out he is not going.
We spoke to SNP MP Kenny MacAskill, who served in Alex Salmond’s cabinet as justice secretary when he was first minister.
A woman who has accused Alex Salmond of sexual assaulting her at his official residence has said she was “too scared” to call for help.