Splits emerge in Yes to Independence Campaign
Alex Salmond and the wider SNP Leadership are coming under fire for failing to provide a radical, positive enough vision for an independent Scotland.
Scotland
Scotland should opt into UK wide press regulation, say committee of MSPs
As political leaders in Scotland once again meet today to discuss how to take forward the need for a reformed system of press regulation post-Leveson, a committee of MSPs has called for Scotland to opt into the UK wide Royal Charter proposal rather than going its own way.
Westminster must follow Holyrood’s lead on train fares
Rail fares and ticketing are unnecessarily expensive and complicated – it’s a mess that successive governments have ducked responsibility for sorting out. The Scottish government has now taken action, cutting fares and pledging to remove pricing anomalies. But will the same deal be extended to train users south of the border?
Salmond ‘self-serving and selfish’ argues Miliband
Ed Miliband will today launch a highly personal attack on Alex Salmond by accusing the Scottish First Minister of practicing the kind of divisive politics pursued by Margaret Thatcher.
Scottish Labour to consider devolution of income tax
Scottish Labour’s annual conference will this weekend consider calls for Holyrood to gain powers over all income tax in Scotland.
In death as in life Thatcher divides Scotland
A bitter war of words has broken out north of the border as Holyrood looks set to criticise Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in Scotland on the day of her funeral.
SNP currency plans ‘fanciful’
A House of Lords Committee has declared as “fanciful” any notion, as advocated by the SNP, that an independent Scotland could retain sterling whilst exerting influence over the Bank of England.
Devolution is better bet that independence, argues Carwyn Jones
This weekend two first ministers went head to head with their competing views on the future of the Union.
Poll blow as Scots reject SNP currency proposals
Just days after Alex Salmond formally announced the date of the referendum on Scottish independence, the Scottish nationalist’s campaign has been dealt a blow with new polling showing a majority of Scots against their currency policy.
It’s time the SNP published their plans for an independent Scotland
If Scottish nationalists can’t persuade the country of their case while they are led by what is universally accepted to be Scotland’s best political communicator, when can they?