Gary Gibbon
Does hard Brexit equal Scottish Independence?
There would be a draft second independence bill published on Monday and she would make preparations so Scotland could call a referendum before Britain leaves the EU in 2019.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
EU – Gordon Brown deployed to reach the unreachables
It’s hoped by Remain campaigners that Gordon Brown can reach some of the voters that Jeremy Corbyn struggles to reach.
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Gary Gibbon
Brexit and Scottish independence
Isn’t there a strong chance that Brexit leads to Scottish independence? How can a self-respecting unionist risk that?
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Gary Gibbon
SNP foxhunting move a raiding party into English lawmaking
The government has pulled the vote on foxhunting after the SNP’s decision to break its own pledge and vote against the relaxation of the ban in England.
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Michael Crick
After the big election, lots of smaller ones at Westminster
The next three weeks will see huge jockeying for chairmanships of the increasingly powerful select committees, all of which are up for grabs. Campaigning is already well underway.
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Alex Thomson
Nicola Sturgeon: my 56 MPs will fight to end austerity
Below the Forth railway bridge, in front of her 56 Westminster MPs, Nicola Queen of Scots pledges to fight austerity – and fails to mention “independence” or “referendum”.
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Matt Frei
Election 2015: restive UK holds on tight for unintended consequences
The fear factor worked. Go to bed with Nigel and you wake up in a love triangle with Ed and Nicola was a prospect that cowed voters into the foetal position of continuity.
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Alex Thomson
Jim Murphy confronts ‘the ugly face of nationalism’
Free speech was unquestionably denied in Glasgow today. It was shameful and it was perpetrated by people who say they will vote SNP.
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Alex Thomson
Other parties struggle to top the SNP’s fervent supporters
This is something close to adoration, and this cannot be faked – as a seasoned correspondent you report what you see, and I have never seen this in a UK election. Never.
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Alex Thomson
Is St George now trying to slay the Sturgeon dragon?
I write from Inverness on St George’s Day at a time when Westminster, London and England have rarely seemed so distant and foreign to so many – and that cuts both ways.
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Paul Mason
SNP: a path to fiscal autonomy, but do the sums add up?
What Scots will do if the mandate contained in the SNP manifesto is first delivered then ignored will determine whether the UK survives as a political entity.
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Alex Thomson
SNP manifesto launch: you can take the mountain metaphors too far
What the SNP have to guard against is Acquired Sheffield Syndrome and one N Kinnock’s disastrous triumphalism.
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Gary Gibbon
Scotland: could tactical voting dent SNP’s election prospects?
Our YouGov poll adds to Labour’s gloom in Scotland with one tiny qualification. There’s a chance the headline figures for MPs elected are a bit better (or less awful) than it might seem.
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Gary Gibbon
Nicola Sturgeon: for many Scots, the SNP leader can do no wrong
Nicola Sturgeon has arrived in the top job with perfect timing and it would seem, for many Scots, perfect casting.
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Gary Gibbon
SNP holding on to yes vote
The SNP is now sitting on – allowing for a bit of churning – pretty much all the Labour supporters who backed independence.