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NewsYahoo News UKScottish independence referendum: Date, latest polls and legal issues explained
Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced Scotland intends to hold a second independence referendum.
NewsYahoo News UKBrexit is 'biggest unconcluded disaster of modern times', MP claims
Pete Wishart, known for his animated anti-Brexit outbursts in the House of Commons, compared the deal agreed by Boris Johnson last year to a 'barely defrosted turkey'.
NewsYahoo News UK'This is self-harm': SNP demand Brexit extension amid warning of second coronavirus wave
The SNP’s Ian Blackford has said Brexit during the coronavirus crisis is 'self-induced madness' as he demanded an extension to the transition period.
NewsYahoo News UKTory MP criticises 'lazy' colleagues who oppose returning to parliament during lockdown
Henry Smith’s comments come as Jacob Rees-Mogg told MPs to head back to parliament after recess.
NewsYahoo News UKCoronavirus: Nearly two-thirds of Brits support parties forming national unity government to tackle crisis
Even a majority of Conservative voters support the idea.
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 UKSNP MP angrily brands Boris Johnson 'desperate liar' as PM criticises party's record in Scotland
It continues a series of bad-tempered clashes between the party and PM.
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 UKScottish paper seizes on Boris Johnson's 'misleading' claim SNP said first independence referendum was 'once-in-a-generation'
A pro-independence news outlet labelled the claim 'false and deliberately misleading' in a 'fact check' piece.
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 UKWatch: SNP MP drowned out by cheering Tories hours after plea for Commons 'respect'
It came just hours after new Commons speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said he wanted the House to “have a better image” that is “respected” by the public.
NewsYahoo News UKBoris Johnson called out for 'playing' on phone in Commons rather than listening to MP
'It is not a good look.'
EntertainmentYahoo News UKSNP MP criticised for crossing fingers during oath of allegiance to the Queen
MPs are required by law to make an oath or affirmation of allegiance to the Crown.
PoliticsYahoo News UKInside Britain’s most marginal constituency, where the SNP hold a majority of two
North East Fife has a majority of just two for the SNP.
PoliticsYahoo News UK‘Many’ Labour MPs want to back plan to cancel Brexit in wake of latest defeat for Theresa May
MPs are preparing to take control of the Commons timetable with a second series of "indicative" votes on Brexit.
NewsYahoo News UKNicola Sturgeon says 'no good practical reason' Scotland can't have same Brexit concessions as Northern Ireland
How to maintain a soft Irish border had emerged as the key sticking point to getting agreement from the EU to move on to phase two in negotiations.
NewsYahoo News UKAlex Salmond to host new TV show on Moscow-backed RT channel
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond has been lambasted for his decision to host a show on Kremlin-backed news channel, RT
NewsYahoo News UKPlan to lower voting age to 16 set to fail as it runs out of parliamentary time
MP Jim McMahon is trying to lower the voting age for General Elections to 16 in a bid to get more young people involved in politics
NewsPolitics.co.ukThe SNP's political stardust is starting to fade
Since the 2014 independence referendum, there has always been a section in Nicola Sturgeon’s autumn conference speech which uses the “I” word – independence. There was a bit of that when the SNP leader reached that paragraph this time, but nothing like there’s been in previous years. “To all of you here in this hall and across our country who are impatient for change,” said Sturgeon, “let me say this.
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”.
NewsYahoo News UKLabour's Scotland surge could put 'nail in coffin' of second independence vote
Labour’s electoral surge could put paid to any chance Scotland has of having a second vote on independence, it has been claimed.
NewsYahoo News UKNicola Sturgeon says SNP will prop up Labour government if Jeremy Corbyn edges into power
The SNP could end up teaming up with Labour in the event of a hung Parliament next week, Nicola Sturgeon has suggested. Scotland’s First Minister said she would want the SNP to be part of a “progressive alternative to a Conservative government”, hinting that her party could potentially end up working with Labour. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Ms Sturgeon ruled out the possibility of a formal coalition, but said the SNP would work with other left-leaning parties on an “issue-by-issue” basis.
NewsYahoo News UKThis is what the British public think of the main party leaders
Theresa May is arrogant, Jeremy Corbyn is weak and Tim Farron is weird – according to the British public. Populus asked voters to pick from a list of positive and negative words to describe the leaders of the four main political parties – the Tories, Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP.
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