Nicola Sturgeon cancels lockdown easing in Glasgow amid Indian variant fears
She said an outbreak in the south side of Glasgow meant it would join Moray by staying in Level 3 of her lockdown restrictions.
14 May 2021 • 7:31pm
Nicola Sturgeon has said Glasgow will not move to Level 2 on Monday
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Nicola Sturgeon has cancelled the easing of lockdown in Glasgow on Monday following evidence the more transmissible Indian Covid variant is driving the surge of cases in the city.
The First Minister said an outbreak in the south side of Scotland s largest city meant it would join Moray by staying in Level 3 of her lockdown restrictions, while the rest of the mainland moves to Level 2.
Humza Yousaf to took to Twitter last night as he has family living in Gaza. “Wife has been in floods of tears all evening,” he wrote. “Her brother lives in Gaza with his wife & three young children. He tells us it s raining rockets. As a parent he feels helpless, they cannot leave as they are under blockade. All we can do is pray & hope they are alive in the morning.” Wife has been in floods of tears all evening. Her brother lives in Gaza with his wife & three young children. He tells us it s raining rockets. As a parent he feels helpless, they cannot leave as they are under blockade. All we can do is pray & hope they are alive in the morning.
Former-Tory Scottish MP Luke Graham said a law should be passed which states such votes can only be held after at least 20 years have passed since the last one.
THE distorted reality of Scottish politics is evident in my family’s recent voting preferences. Almost as one, the McKenna clan – sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, brothers and sisters, as well as our presiding matriarch – voted for the SNP last week, then scoured the regional lists for something with which to assuage their consciences. The Trade Union and Socialist Coalition would have been the obvious chance if any of them had previously been aware of their existence. Faith and politics are the intertwined ribbons of our family’s cultural DNA and the Labour Party has always been the secular force that complements the spiritual. It was this organisation that did more than any other to lift our community out of the poverty and discrimination that greeted the Irish fleeing famine and Britain’s genocidal role in that apocalypse. It’s simply impossible to overstate our family’s traditional devotion to the Labour Party. They all long to return to the fold.