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Alex Salmond appeared before the Salmond Inquiry last month (Image: GETTY) Scots go to the polls in May to elect the next Scottish Parliament. The SNP are demanding a second referendum on Scotland leaving the UK, after losing the first vote in 2014. Ms Sturgeon said: “This is about democracy and the ability of the people of Scotland to decide their future.” Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, has suggested there could be another public vote “as early as late 2021”. Boris Johnson has vowed to block any second referendum on breaking up Britain (Image: EXPRESS ) He added a ref...

Anti-independence campaigners crowdfunded to pay for the flight and for billboards in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The message also featured on an aerial banner flown over the Scottish Parliament building and Edinburgh and Glasgow city centres.

As the world continues its fight against Covid-19, the Scottish National Party has been busy plotting Scotland’s exit from the UK. If the party gets its way and wins another referendum, Scots could soon find themselves living under a ‘sterlingisation’ currency system. The implications could be disastrous. It would be wrong to dismiss talk of another referendum as hypothetical. Powers over the UK’s constitution may sit with Westminster, but recent polling demonstrates a sustained (small) majority for secession. The SNP continues to ride high in the polls, looks set to win convincin...

Kings Elliot as she faces some of the hardest home truths. Born out of a loneliness which has seen been exacerbated by the world around her falling into lockdown again, Kings Elliot draws on her experience living with borderline personality disorder, depression and anxiety to create. Raised in Switzerland her lyrics are composed around her most personal thoughts and fears and then set to cinematic soundscapes which add atmospheres of both calm and chaos to her frustrated words. “I tried wrapping a very sad truth into a soothing lullaby,” Elliot explains of the track she’s chosen to shar...