South Scotland MSP Craig Hoy raises the vaccine issue at the Scottish Parliament THE new Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care has pledged to look into reports of East Lothian residents having to travel to Midlothian and West Lothian for their coronavirus vaccines when there is capacity locally, after the Courier s article about the issue was referenced at Holyrood. Craig Hoy (Conservative), South Scotland MSP and a Haddington councillor, raised the issue at the Scottish Parliament yesterday (Thursday) and mentioned the Courier s story, published earlier that day as he asked Health Secretary Humza Yousaf – who was appointed to the role earlier this month following the Scottish Parliament Election – if he would look into it.
New Stirling MSP embarks on Holyrood experience after election victory
Scottish Parliament welcomes constituency representative Evelyn Tweed and regional MSPs
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Evelyn Tweed outside the Scottish Parliament on her first day there as Stirling s MSP
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Evelyn Tweed felt “totally honoured” as she set foot inside the Scottish Parliament for the first time since becoming Stirling’s new MSP.
Green MSP elected Holyrood presiding officer after party co-leader backs end of monarchy
Alison Johnstone was the only MSP to put herself forward for the key role, Holyrood s equivalent of the Commons Speaker.
13 May 2021 • 6:29pm
Newly elected Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament Alison Johnstone
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A Green MSP has been elected as the Scottish Parliament s presiding officer and main contact with the Queen after the party s leader said he was looking forward to the end of the monarchy.
Alison Johnstone was the only MSP to put herself forward for the key role, Holyrood s equivalent of the Commons Speaker, after a series of other potential frontrunners ruled themselves out.
Unionist voters stopped Sturgeon winning a majority by a whisker
Scotland s Tory leader openly suggested that Conservative supporters should vote Labour in seats where his party was not in with a chance
8 May 2021 • 11:19pm
Unionist voters stopped Nicola Sturgeon winning an SNP majority by a whisker thanks to unprecedented levels of tactical voting in the Holyrood election.
The SNP benefits from the first-past-the-post system used to determine the result in the Scottish Parliament s 73 constituencies, with the vast majority of independence supporters voting for the party.
In contrast, the Unionist vote fragments between the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, allowing the SNP to come through the middle.