Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown and the last minute job offer
Gordon Brown leaves parliament only weeks after his successor Ed Miliband asked him to throw himself back into frontline politics.
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SNP MPs would vote on English matters – Sturgeon
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon causes a stir ahead of the election after saying that nationalists elected in May would be prepared to vote on the English NHS at Westminster.
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SNP councillors suspended for burning Smith report
Four SNP councillors filmed setting fire to a copy of the Smith Commission report on new powers for Scotland are suspended from the party for two months.
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‘English votes for English laws’ plans unveiled
The Commons leader, William Hague, spells out to MPs a series of options for meeting the prime minister’s pledge of “English votes for English laws”.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
New powers for Scotland – but can they save Labour at the polls?
The SNP’s message all day has been that there’s less to the devolution deal than meets the eye. This afternoon they got support for that proposition from the former Labour First Minister Lord (Jack) McConnell.
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Gary Gibbon
At breakneck speed a new UK takes shape
As the deadline for proposals on devolving more powers to Scotland approached, ministers were busy trying to secure last-minute deals for their own spending departments.
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‘Scotland’s destiny is back in their hands’
The Smith Commission recommendations appear to have reinvigorated many young Scots disillusioned after the referendum. Is Scotland back in control of its destiny?
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish Labour in despair
I’ve spent the afternoon taking the temperature of Labour MPs after their party’s decision to back 100 per cent devolution of income tax to Holyrood. The temperature is at morgue chiller levels.
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish Labour U-turn on tax devolution
Jim Murphy, the front-runner for leadership of the Scottish Labour party, decides he does want full tax devolution to Scotland after all.
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Scottish Labour should ‘apologise’ as party face wipe-out
As Jim Murphy launches his Scottish Labour leadership bid, a second opinion poll this week suggests his party would lose dozens of Scottish MPs at the 2015 general election.
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Gary Gibbon
Can Jim Murphy save Scottish Labour?
Jim Murphy is expected to declare his candidacy for the leadership of Scottish Labour in the next 48 hours, but some commentators say he has too much Blairite baggage to carry off the job.
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Yes voters ‘heartbroken’ over Westminster ‘snub’
As MPs debate English votes for English laws, Scottish independence supporters say their anger towards Westminster is growing stronger.
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What next for Scotland’s Yes voters?
They became the symbol of the yes campaign’s defeat, photographed in a deserted George Square the morning after the referendum. What happened next to Eva and Nina?
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Gary Gibbon
Commons to vote on Iraq IS attacks on Friday
Seeking parliamentary approval before military action has brought in a new era that inhibits prime ministers in a way that would be unthinkable to their predecessors.
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Rise of Nicola Sturgeon: from ‘nippy sweetie’ to SNP leader?
She was the public face of the Yes campaign and is now running for SNP leader – just as her party becomes the UK’s third biggest. Meet the woman who used to be known as “scary”.
