Prominent Scots Lib Dem quits over party’s “betrayal”
Hugh O’Donnell, the Lib Dem MSP for the Central Scotland region has announced that he is to quit the party and contest the seat in May’s elections as an independent.
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Budget 2011: Reaction across the nations
Left Foot Forward’s Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs assesses reaction to the budget in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Budget 2011: The view from the devolved nations
Ed Jacobs reviews the economic situation in the devolved nations and how the budget could feed into it.
Miliband fires starting gun on Scottish elections campaign
With just weeks to go until voters in Scotland get the chance to elect their government and parliament for the next five years, Scottish Labour held their spring conference in Glasgow at the weekend, reports Ed Jacobs.
Lib Dems face Scottish poll meltdown
For Nick Clegg, it seems motions passed at party conferences condemning the government’s health reforms could soon become the least of his worries, with the Liberals facing meltdown in Scotland and Wales.
Holyrood vote exposes Tory splits on free prescriptions
The decision by MSPs to provide for free prescriptions north of the border not only sees the enactment of a key SNP manifesto pledge, but highlights the divisions within the UK Conservative party on the issue of free prescriptions.
Has Cameron “detoxified” the Tories in Scotland?
The man in charge of the Tories’ Scottish election campaign claims the party’s been “detoxified” and is on course to improve on the 17 MSPs currently held.
Warnings of generation lost to poverty
Save the Children in Wales has described as a “scandal” new figures showing that Children in Wales are more likely to live in severe poverty than other parts of the UK.
SNP were prepared to consider referendum without independence option
Alex Salmond was prepared to support a referendum on Scotland’s constitutional future that excluded an option for full independence, new WikiLeaks cables have revealed.
Will the ‘Big Society’ have to cover for Scottish coastguard cuts?
The UK government is putting too much emphasis on the use of volunteers and is expecting too much of them to provide a vital service requiring 24-hour manning, a service now facing such serious cuts.