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WHAT started as a good week in the battle against coronavirus in Scotland has ended with very encouraging news. For the second day in a row…

THE former foreign editor of the Times has been praised by the SNP for switching from No to Yes.

In a comprehensive 61-page judgement, Lady Carmichael summed up the case made by both sides. The UK Government argued that “the pursuer (Keatings) lacks standing, that the action is hypothetical and premature, that the action is incompetent, and that it would, for a variety of reasons, be wrong as a matter of constitutional law for the court to grant the declarator the pursuer seek". Keatings’ lawyers said: "He is a campaigner for Scottish independence. He pleads that as a campaigner, and as a voter in the forthcoming Scottish Parliamentary elections, he has a sufficient interest to...

BORIS Johnson is the “voice of the majority of the Scottish people,” Downing Street has claimed. The bizarre comment from the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson came as more questions were asked over the ousting of Luke Graham, the former Scottish Tory MP in charge of the No 10 Union Unit. It emerged last night that he was being replaced by Vote Leave chief and Dominic Cummings’s protege, Oliver Lewis. Known as Sonic, the aide is set to take control of Downing Street’s campaign to save the Union – despite having no known experience of Scottish politics. Graham’s de...

PREMIUM Bias? Ross: 'It just seems like the BBC trots out SNP lines rather than impartial, unbiased lines' DOUGLAS Ross has accused the BBC of showing bias and a lack of impartiality, saying concerns are growing about how the broadcaster in Scotland “trots out” SNP lines. In an exclusive interview with The Herald, the Scottish Conservative leader said he would be complaining to BBC chiefs about how, in the run-up to May’s Holyrood poll, the Nationalists were gaining an unfair political advantage and were seeking to use the corporation in their drive to make Scotland a “one-party s...