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Poots wants more ‘jaw-jaw amid tensions over absence from north-south meetings  Taoiseach Micheal Martin (right) meeting with DUP Leader Edwin Poots (centre) and DUP MLA Paul Given at Government Buildings, Dublin. Picture date: Thursday June 3, 2021. Julien Behal Photography Jonathan McCambridge, David Young and Rebecca Black, PA 03 June, 2021 19:19  Taoiseach Micheal Martin waves goodbye to DUP leader Edwin Poots and MLA Paul Givan, after their...

Poots says he will attend next north-south ministerial meeting  DUP leader Edwin Poots speaks to the media as he arrives at Government Buildings, Dublin, ahead of his meeting with Taoiseach Micheal Martin. Picture date: Thursday June 3, 2021. Jonathan McCambridge, David Young and Rebecca Black, PA 03 June, 2021 20:13  Taoiseach Micheal Martin (right) meeting with DUP Leader Edwin Poots (centre) and DUP MLA Paul Given at Government Buildings, Dubli...

I FIND myself in general agreement with Neil Mackay’s “five key truths” on the Union ("The five key truths about Scotland and the…

An independence campaigner reacts during a confrontation with unionist counter-demonstrators at an All Under One Banner event in Edinburgh in 2018 TODAYS article by Mark Smith struck a chord on many levels ("Forget the labels: I don’t want to be a unionist any more", The Herald, May 31). Going to school in Aberdeen, I would be hard-pressed to recall any instance when the labels "Catholic" or "Protestant" were applied. Throughout primary school the religion of any fellow pupil was of no i...

WILLIE Bruce (Letters, June 1) has got it right. This issue of the resignation of the SNP elected treasurer and members of the finance committee is…

THE decision that the Prime Minster has not breached the Ministerial Code of conduct is remarkable, but to understand it we need to look at how the…

ALLOWING the Health Secretary to keep his job after committing a “minor” breach of the ministerial code could give “carte blanche” for…

Matt Hancock was let off by the standards watchdog today for failing to reveal he owned shares in a family first that won NHS contracts. The Health Secretary was accused of cronyism after it he revealed in March he had a 20 per cent stake in Topwood Ltd, which is run by his sister and brother-in-law. The company, which specialises in the secure storage, shredding and scanning of documents, was awarded £300,000 of business by NHS Wales this year. The new ministerial standards watchdog Lord Ge...

Leaked documents now show the Home Secretary pressed ministers and officials intervened to give a previously unreported £28.8million contract to a firm represented by Samir Jassal.

BORIS Johnson has been cleared over his No11 flat refurb - as an official report said he didn't break the ministerial code in the "cash for curtains"