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Only a complete overhaul of how Westminster works will restore faith in politics after Downing Street’s lockdown parties, according to experts.
The fallout from the Downing Street party scandals could provide Nicola Sturgeon with the opportunity to "strike while the iron's hot" and launch her independence drive, a top pollster has said.
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Nicola Sturgeon has been lucky with her enemies – but trouble lies ahead The First Minister’s biggest problem is that there is little appetite for a second Scottish referendum among voters or Westminster. Nicola Sturgeon stands on the steps of Bute House with her new cabinet on 19 May 2021. Arrayed on the steps of Bute House on Wednesday, Nicola Sturgeon’s newly appointed Scottish cabinet kept the requisite two metres from one another. They looked like an unusual and slightly rash football formation. A 1-2-6 or a 6-2-1? Is Sturgeon herself goalkeeper or point of attack, or (with th...
Letters Keith Brown said the results of the regional ballot were 'absolute proof ... that Scotland voted to take our future into our hands on May 6' CARRYING out analysis of the regional ballot is an interesting but entirely worthless exercise if all you are going to do is apply the usual “this view/that view” to the findings (Majority of Scots regions back indy in list vote, May 16). “Backing for pro-independence parties and candidates reached over 50% in six out of eight areas of Scotland.” Yes it did/No it didn’t. “Research shows votes for those supporting Yes was the hig...