NewsYahoo News UKScotland reports one COVID-19 death in 24 hours as Sturgeon warns lockdown rules could be tightened
The first minister warned that lockdown rules in Scotland could be tightened after data suggested people were breaking regulations
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: People could be allowed to meet friends outdoors to ease lockdown, Downing Street says
The Scottish first minister said it could become possible to meet “with small defined groups”.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus lockdown 'very likely' to be extended further, Nicola Sturgeon says
The current lockdown is due to be reviewed on Thursday, six weeks after it came into force.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: Britain to stockpile masks for public to make shopping and transport safer
Ministers have so far stopped short of advising Britons to wear the protective masks.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: UK facing multiple lockdowns during outbreak, Nicola Sturgeon warns
Scotland’s first minister warned: 'A return to normal as we knew it is not on the cards in the near future.'
NewsYahoo News UKNicola Sturgeon to lay out more lockdown details because 'we're treating the public like grown-ups'
Nicola Sturgeon has said she won't give specific dates on when lockdown will be lifted, but will give details on how the decision is made because she's 'treating the public like grown-ups'.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus lockdown exit strategy 'to be developed in the next week and made public', says Nicola Sturgeon reveals
The Scottish first minister said that the lockdown measures are working but added that it was still too early for restrictions to be lifted.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: Lockdown 'likely to last another few weeks', Nicola Sturgeon says
'I know this is really tough for people to hear but it is likely to be another few weeks in lockdown.'
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus 'could close Scottish schools', says Nicola Sturgeon
Scotland's first minister expects coronavirus cases to 'rise rapidly in the days to come'.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: 1 in 25 of infected could be hospitalised in Scotland
Chief medical officer warns 50-80% of the population will become infected, with 4% requiring hospitalisation.
PoliticsYahoo News UKSupport for Scottish independence soars to 52% as three polls in a week show anti-Brexit surge
Three separate polls show that another Scottish independence referendum would be 'too close to call', according to a polling expert.
PoliticsYahoo News UKScottish independence: Poll shows lead for 'Yes' vote for first time since 2015
The shift towards independence comes from Remainers in Scotland moving towards a Yes vote.
PoliticsYahoo News UKFormer SNP deputy accuses Sturgeon of ‘pretending’ there'll be another independence vote
The SNP is pushing hard for a second referendum on Scottish independence.
PoliticsYahoo News UKScotland will one day rejoin the EU, SNP MEP insists
Nearly two-thirds of Scots voted to remain in the EU.
PoliticsYahoo News UKBoris Johnson rejects request for second Scottish independence referendum
In a letter to Scotland's first minister, the PM said: “I cannot agree to any request for a transfer of power that would lead to further independence referendums.”
PoliticsYahoo News UKOusted Labour MP says Boris Johnson lied about 'getting Brexit done'
The UK is due to leave the EU on January 31.
PoliticsYahoo News UKBoris Johnson cannot keep Scotland in union against its will, warns Nicola Sturgeon
The First Minister continued to push for a new independence referendum when she appeared on BBC's Andrew Marr Show.
PoliticsYahoo News UKNicola Sturgeon apologises for 'gracelessly' celebrating SNP win over Jo Swinson
The First Minister admitted she “got over-excited” on Thursday night when cameras spotted her punching the air after Amy Callaghan beat Ms Swinson in East Dunbartonshire.
PoliticsYahoo News UKAwkward moment Boris Johnson appears to kiss Andrea Leadsom on the lips during embrace
They were trying to kiss each other on the cheek but it went wrong.
PoliticsYahoo News UKBrits no longer care what sort of Brexit we get as long as Government 'gets on with it’
Brexit has dragged on long enough for voters.
NewsYahoo News UKMichael Gove says Cabinet Brexit discussions are sustained by 'glasses of fine Scotch whisky and smoked salmon'
Michael Gove said discussions with his Cabinet colleagues on the benefits of Brexit ‘go long into the night’.
NewsPolitics.co.ukSturgeon speech: Hinting at radical reform is not the same as implementing it
Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday’s Programme for Government was “fresh, it is bold and it is ambitious”, and therefore aspects of it would undoubtedly be “controversial”. For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long-trailed effort to “refresh” her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform (“most radical change”), more cash to boost economic growth (“raising our ambition”) and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank. Sturgeon noted vaguely that there were “arguments for and against” a citizens’ basic income, but added that it merited “deeper consideration”.
NewsPolitics.co.ukIndyref2 is still on the table
Like Aesop’s mountain, we’re led to believe, Nicola Sturgeon has spent the days since the general election labouring, or rather “reflecting”, on the future of independence. It remained her view, she told the Scottish parliament, that voters should have a “choice” at the end of the Brexit process, while by any democratic “standard” the Scottish government’s mandate to hold a second referendum was “beyond question”.
NewsPolitics.co.ukIndyref2: Brexit comes home to roost
If Nicola Sturgeon has her way, there will be a second referendum on Scottish independence sometime between autumn 2018 and spring 2019. On the week that Article 50 might be triggered, we are now seeing, in concrete terms, the reality of what Brexit entails. Just before the UK leaves the EU, Scotland may leave the UK.
NewsPolitics.co.ukThe SNP's income tax policy puts them firmly on the centre-right
The nationalists, like New Labour, well understand that message discipline is key. Following lengthy exchanges about new income tax powers, the first minister said her plans put the SNP “in exactly the right place"– the same line she used on BBC Scotland last Thursday. Sturgeon and others have studied the New Labour playbook and learned it well.