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‘Alarming if Supreme Court thinks what Boris Johnson has done is acceptable,’ says SNP’s Joanna Cherry
We speak to Joanna Cherry, who is at the forefront of the Scottish legal challenge to parliament’s suspension.
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SNP’s Joanna Cherry: ‘I would be cautiously optimistic Supreme Court will follow lead of Scottish court’
Joanna Cherry, from the Scottish National Party, was at the forefront of the Scottish legal challenge.
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SNP’s Hannah Bardell on Boris Johnson’s government: ‘I wouldn’t trust them to build a Lego bridge’
We spoke to the Scottish National Party MP Hannah Bardell and began by asking if she thought the bridge was a good idea.
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SNP’s Joanna Cherry: Suspending parliament ‘is the sort of thing that happens in unelected dictatorships’
The SNP’s Joanna Cherry led the legal challenge brought by 75 parliamentarians in Scotland’s top civil court, seeking to block the Prime Minister’s decision to suspend parliament.
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SNP’s Joanna Cherry: ’If Ruth Davidson not prepared to tolerate government by Boris Johnson, why should people of Scotland?’
The Scottish National Party’s Joanna Cherry is one of around 70 MPs seeking an emergency ruling in the Scottish courts to stop parliament being suspended.
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FactCheck: Scottish police numbers under the SNP
It’s hard to say how many police officers are actually “on the beat” in Scotland today.
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SNP Deputy Leader in Westminster: “We’re still continuing to fight for a People’s Vote”
The SNP’s Deputy Leader at Westminster, Kirsty Blackman, joins us from Edinburgh.
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SNP’s Ian Blackford: ‘It is the government that is failing, not parliament’
SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford today lambasted the Prime Minister for her Brexit negotiations, saying her time was up and if MPs’ votes don’t count, they may as well just go home.
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SNP MP Hannah Bardell on why she signed a non-disclosure agreement after allegedly enduring bullying and harassment at a former workplace
They’re controversial legal agreements which can guarantee silence in exchange for cash. The furore over non-disclosure agreements emerged again last week, after a Labour peer used parliamentary privilege to identify Sir Philip Green as a businessman alleged to have used NDAs in settlements with several former employees claiming sexual and racial harassment.
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SNP threatens UK government with ‘maximum disruption’
Ian Blackford made the threat on the party’s conference floor today, but the SNP has also been having to defend its record of 11 years in power in Scotland.
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Sturgeon says SNP would back a new referendum on the Brexit deal
The third largest party in the United Kingdom, the Scottish National Party, begins its annual conference in Glasgow today. Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, has said her MPs would back a new referendum on the Brexit deal, the so-called People’s Vote. Scotland Correspondent Ciaran Jenkins reports from Glasgow.
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Alex Salmond resigns from SNP amid sexual misconduct allegations
Today the former SNP leader, Alex Salmond proffered his resignation from the party while he awaits an investigation into complaints about his behaviour when he was Scottish First Minister.
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The SNP probably have more members than the Tories now, but does it matter?
SNP members might be excited to hear that they’ve overtaken the Conservatives, but this doesn’t necessarily mean the party is destined for a landslide.
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SNP MPs stage mass walkout in Commons
The entire group of Scottish National Party MPs staged a walkout at Prime Minister’s Questions today in protest at what they said was a “power grab” by Westminster. The SNP claim that the government is keeping hold of powers that should go to Edinburgh after Brexit, and were furious that they didn’t get the chance…
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Tory MP Ross Thomson on Brexit: ‘SNP want to see another independence referendum’
Ross Thomson, Conservative MP for Aberdeen South, and SNP MSP Ash Denham discuss the EU withdrawal bill.