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DURING the newspaper review on his show yesterday, Andrew Marr interrupted the chat about lifting lockdown and the soap opera shenanigans in Downing Street (“Every day in Number Ten is like an episode of Hollyoaks,” the Mail on Sunday was told). Marr wanted to draw attention to a certain very important event happening in Scotland this week: Alex Salmond’s appearance before the Holyrood committee investigating the Scottish Government’s botched handling of harassment complaints agains...

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THE SNP sails confidently and complacently towards the election in May. It fully expects to win and assuredly it will because it has absolutely no serious competition. Under Ruth Davidson the Conservatives were for a time really making inroads into the SNP majority; unfortunately the lure of the ermine proved too strong to keep the soon-to-be Baroness Davidson in Scotland. The Labour Party may some day start to be heard again in the land, after the disaster of the Corbynista Richard Leonard, ...

Alex Salmond names people he alleges to have been part of efforts to damage his reputation.

ALEX Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon’s husband and others close to her of being part of a plot to destroy his reputation and send him to jail.

Salmond inquiry: Sturgeon told buck stops with her not fall-guys NICOLA Sturgeon must carry the can for the Alex Salmond affair, the Scottish Tories have said, after reports her underlings are being lined up for the chop. The Tories said the buck had to stop with the First Minister for high-level failings, and she should not be allowed to pass responsibility to a series of fall-guys. It followed reports that the Scottish Government’s top official, the Permanent Secretary Leslie Evans, w...

A BATTLE between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond is heating up after a Holyrood Committee investigating the Scottish governments mishandling of harassment complaints against him voted not to publish a revised submission containing bombshell claims against the Scottish First Minister.

When Nicola Sturgeon finally appears before the Holyrood committee investigating the Salmond affair, she will be insulated by that shield of moral…

A woman who accused former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond of sexual harassment has found the Holyrood committees investigation more traumatic than the High Court trial. The woman, speaking anonymously to the BBC, said the Scottish Government let down women who complained because of its unlawful investigation. But she said the committee inquiry set up to look into the botched investigation of Mr Salmond had turned the issue into a political fight and suggested any conclusions it reaches w...

SINCE Watergate, the grand-daddy of all political scandals, it has been commonplace to observe that the serious damage is often caused, not by the…