Gary Gibbon
Hung parliament predictions harden, coalition recedes
The odds of a coalition after 2015 recede in your mind the more you chat around Westminster. It’s not impossible. But it’s not a hot favourite either.
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Gary Gibbon
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Has the UK ‘watered down’ Scotland’s devolution proposals?
David Cameron hails legislation to deliver new powers for Scotland as “built to last, securing our united future.” But is it what Scotland was hoping for? Channel 4 takes a look.
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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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Paul Mason
I’d unleash Ant, Dec and Darcey Bussell on our wilting political class
I would drag these guys kicking and screaming into a public debate. I would make the presenters the bad-est ass inquisitors in Britain.
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Gary Gibbon
Cameron says no TV debates without Greens
David Cameron thinks if he’s having to put up with Nigel Farage pulling away votes from him in a debate, Labour should have to put up with the Greens stealing votes off them too.
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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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Predicting the election: an impossible job?
Political pundits are struggling to read a radically reshaped voter landscape, as the two-party system appears to be heading for its final demise. So who has the edge on general election prediction?
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Gary Gibbon
Scottish Labour leadership contest and the general election
Voting in the race to be leader of the Scottish Labour Party closes tomorrow and some claim echoes of the 2010 battle of the Miliband brothers.
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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
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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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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Paul Mason
The two camps of Yes Scotland: nationalists and radicals
Alex Salmond’s dramatic move – after a night of drama in Scotland and a day of confusion in Westminster – adds another variable to the outcome of the constitutional crisis.
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Gary Gibbon
Salmond resignation makes no camp’s win all the sweeter
Opponents of Scottish independence will feel they have brought down Alex Salmond, who has announced his resignation.
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Michael Crick
A year of extraordinary votes
Alex Salmond and Nigel Farage have seized the chance. Both are charismatic, cheeky-chappy personalities and outsider politicians who’ve brilliantly exploited public disgust with old politics.
