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UNITY is an elevated state that all parties and their leaders aspire to but few achieve and, if they do, it eventually crumbles from within. The…

THE elevation of Humza Yousaf is a dreary prospect. He was the continuity candidate chosen, as it turns out, by a mere 24,336 people. His job will…

THERE was an inevitability about it. For many months, the direction of travel by Sir Keir Starmer and his senior Labour colleagues had been pointing…

UNTIL now I thought that Partygate should take second place to big national and world events, especially as Boris Johnson seemed to be handling them…

BORIS Johnson’s leadership is facing further turmoil after Tory MPs lined up to sympathise with the outgoing Brexit minister who quit his job…

RON McKay ("How private firms took shine off buried treasure", November 14) rightly says of the proposed Cambo oil project off Shetland…

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will not be self-isolating despite being contacted by NHS Test and Trace Updated Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will not be self-isolating despite being contacted by NHS Test and Trace Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace as contacts of someone who has tested positive for Covid, but they will not self-isolate. The announcement follows the disclosure on Saturday that Health Secretary Sajid Javid had been confirmed as testing pos...

THE optimism of John Milne for our future (Letters, July 2), is commendable. However, as Milan Kundera wrote, “optimism is the opium of the people”. Mr Milne’s quote from Gordon Brown, “We’ve got to give people a message of hope. Tell them about the dream” is a good example. Perhaps part of the problem for the Labour Party in Scotland is that their previous hegemony perished on the rock that too many people, for a variety of reasons, stopped believing them any more – that th...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will carry out a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet team on Sunday according to reports. The Opposition leader will look to reshape his top team further across the weekend as he looks to reverse the party’s downward spiral in England. The Press Association reports that further changes are expected to be announced following the sacking of Angela Rayner as national campaign coordinator.  As well as undertaking a reshuffle, the former director of public prose...

Ross warns Sturgeons Indyref2 plan would mean economic chaos SCOTLAND’S economy would be sent “spiralling into chaos” if there was a second independence referendum, Douglas Ross as he launched his manifesto. The Scottish Tory leader claimed that putting the constitution ahead of the recovery from the Covid pandemic would be the “height of reckless”. The SNP said the Tory position of trying to block Indyref2 was “utterly undemocratic”. Mr Ross launched his manifesto with ...