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What does Humza Yousaf’s victory mean for Scotland?
Humza Yousaf’s victory makes him the first Muslim leader of a political party anywhere in the UK.
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SNP leadership: nominations close for Scotland’s top job
The third and final SNP Leadership candidate Ash Regan announced her plan for independence without the need for a referendum at her campaign launch.
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Life after Nicola Sturgeon: who will be Scotland’s next leader?
The race to become Scotland’s next First Minister has begun – tonight the Scottish National Party’s national executive is meeting via video conference to decide the timetable for the leadership contest.
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Looking back at Nicola Sturgeon’s career as Scotland’s longest-serving First Minister
It was notable today that many of Nicola Sturgeon’s political adversaries paid tribute to her skill as a politician; a grudging respect that the woman, who started off as a self-described ‘austere’ teenage activist in working-class Ayrshire, earned over more than three decades in politics.
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After Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation as Scotland’s First Minister, what comes next?
Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to stand down is still being digested in Edinburgh, with both her political allies and adversaries now rapidly recalibrating their next moves.
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FactCheck: why has Nicola Sturgeon resigned as Scotland’s First Minister, and what does this mean for Scottish independence and the SNP?
Nicola Sturgeon has announced her resignation as Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party. But why has she resigned and what does it mean for Scottish independence? Here’s what we know so far.
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NHS crisis: GPs in Scotland quitting due to ‘unsafe situation’
While the crisis in hospital A&E departments has been dominating recent headlines, the situation in GPs surgeries may be just as less urgent.
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Blocking gender recognition bill is ‘attack on trans people and Scottish democracy’, NUS Scotland president says
We’re joined by NUS Scotland President Ellie Gomersall.
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Government to block Scotland gender bill in unprecedented move
The government says it will block a new law on gender recognition passed by the Scottish Parliament at the end of last year – in an unprecedented move that’s certain to spark a bitter constitutional row between Westminster and Holyrood.
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Sturgeon vows to fight government’s Strikes Bill ‘every step of the way’ in Scotland
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon denounced the government’s minimum service bill – which will apply across the whole of the UK – as a move to ‘take away workers rights’, vowing to fight it ‘all the way’.
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Debate: should Scotland’s Gender Recognition Bill be passed?
We were also joined from the Scottish Parliament by Susan Smith, a director of For Women Scotland, which opposes gender self-identification – and Colin MacFarlane from the equality campaign group Stonewall Scotland.
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House of Lords shouldn’t be used for PM’s ‘cronies’, says Shadow Scotland Secretary
We also put some of those points to Shadow Scotland Secretary Ian Murray, and started by asking whether the voters he meets on the doorstep actually care about reforming the House of Lords.
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IndyRef2 distracts Scotland from local and global issues, says Scottish Conservative leader
We’re joined by the leaders of the Scottish Conservative and Labour Parties, Douglas Ross and Anas Sarwar.
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Scotland ‘will find another way to independence’, says Sturgeon after Supreme Court defeat
No establishment, Westminster or otherwise, will ever silence the voice of the Scottish people – Nicola Sturgeon has told crowds here outside Holyrood.
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Family demand answers for child’s care in Scotland’s scandal-hit ‘super hospital’
Caring for a child with a serious illness is one of the most difficult pressures for a family.