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by James Millar © FRASER BREMNER/Daily Mail/POOL/E Nicola Sturgeon, MSP First Minister of Scotland Photo by FRASER BREMNER/Daily Mail/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Some in the SNP are looking forward to a glorious 2021. The coronavirus crisis ought to end, or at least subside. And man...

A BENIGN tweet the other night by my fellow National columnist, George Kerevan, provided an illustration of the difficulties newspapers face in the dead zone that occurs between Christmas and New Year. Kerevan got a little carried away in conveying his zeal for Scottish independence by appearing to equate it with Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid in South Africa and Martin Luther King Jr’s black civil rights campaign in the US. I hear what you’re saying George, but I’m not...

Updated: December 29, 2020, 9:45 am © Kami Thomson / DCT Media Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up In no year has this felt more apparent than 2020. From Boris to Nicola, McPake to Mellon, Mum, Dad, Holyrood and Hollywood, you will scarcely find anyone who does not want to see the year 2020 AD consigned to the history books. So, with 2020 hindsight (ahem), let’s look back at the year that was, our new normal. Jan...

Submitting... George Floyd, an unarmed black man, is killed during his arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sparking the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests across the US and around the world against police brutality and systemic racism. All exams were cancelled because of the impact of coronavirus on pupils Strains on the union continue to show themselves as the First Minister says she will not hesitate to follow a separate route to Westminster on ...

ALEX Salmond is to break his silence over the Government’s mishandling of complaints made against him when he appears before the Holyrood inquiry into the matter next month, it has emerged. Nicola Sturgeon is due to appear before the committee’s long-running probe a week later in what may be the final oral session of the inquiry, which began taking evidence from witnesses in August. Salmond will appear before the committee on January 19, while Sturgeon will give evidence on January 26. ...

The two women who complained about Alex Salmond did not want to contact the police Murdo Fraser MSP. Judith Mackinnon, the civil servant who led the government’s botched internal investigation into the complaints against Mr Salmond, told the committee she had been asked to “sound out” the two complainers about reporting to the police. Murdo Fraser MSP asked her: “Would it be fair to say that the complainants were reluctant themselves to report to the police?” Ms Mackinnon said: “Y...

Year in review: SNP riding high in turbulent times as more troubles loom in 2021 THE SNP began 2020 fresh from a landslide victory in Scotland following December’s General Election, and ends it on course for a majority in Holyrood next year.  Nicola Sturgeon’s party remains well ahead of the opposition in the polls, and the First Minister enjoys the kind of approval ratings most politicians can only dream of. Independence, too, has never been more popular. A string of polls have p...

THE Scottish Government’s flawed defence of its botched investigation into harassment complaints against Alex Salmond was the result of “a collective organisational failure,” according to new documents released by the civil service. The frank admission is contained in a 2018 report by the Government’s then Director General for Organisational Development and Operations. The paper has been shared with the Holyrood committee investigating the botched probe and the subsequent judicial...

Nicola Sturgeons husband quizzed again by Holyrood Alex Salmond Inquiry Peter Murrell has been contacted again by MSPs following his oral evidence to the committee. 12:25, 23 DEC 2020 Updated Peter Murrell (Image: Getty Images) Our Politics newsletter is now daily. Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send yo...

  Article Salmond inquiry wants to haul the SNP chief executive Peter Murrell back for another grilling to provide entirely truthful answers after inconsistencies emerged By Scott Maclennan Published: 13:30, 22 December 2020 Get the Inverness Courier sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper MSP Murdo Fraser sits on the committee tasked with probing the Scottish Governments actions surrounding former First Minister Alex Salmond. Members of the c...