Politics

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney says Alex Salmond “left a fundamental footprint on Scottish politics”.

Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he will not be “knocked off course” by the turmoil of his first 100 days in office. 

We spoke to Ian Blackford who was leader of the SNP in the House of Commons from 2017 to 2022.

Friends and rivals alike were quick to pay tribute, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer saying: “Alex Salmond was a monumental figure of Scottish and UK politics. He leaves behind a lasting legacy.”

He was a giant of Scottish politics; charismatic, and for some, divisive –  Alex Salmond helped turn the SNP into a party of power.

  Bridget Phillipson: Yes, we’re working with schools to address this, and it’s the children who are regularly not in school that cause me the biggest concern, because that’s where you do see a big impact in terms of academic outcomes, what they’re able to achieve in their exams. But also from the evidence that…

We spoke to the employment minister Alison McGovern – we started by asking her if she had given in to the business lobby over the employment rights bill.

The Government has unveiled its flagship employment rights bill – describing it as the “biggest upgrade to rights at work for a generation”.

The Morgan McSweeney-Sue Gray saga, endless stories about freebies and gloomy economic forecasts ahead of Rachel Reeve’s first budget – so, how badly have Keir Starmer’s first 100 days gone and could the next 100 actually be worse? 

Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick vie for Conservative leadership.

In an extraordinary speech to the European Parliament, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán watching on, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen launched a blow-by-blow attack on his government.

Only yesterday Conservative MPs put James Cleverly in first place in the third round of the Tory leadership contest, but today they knocked him out of the race.

Conservative MPs have knocked Tom Tugendhat out of the party leadership race. The former Home Secretary James Cleverly is now in the lead, having overtaken his rivals Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch.

Schengen Agreement: Many EU countries have recently reintroduced ‘temporary controls’ at their borders, leading to questions as to whether a core fundamental of the European Union is collapsing.

Sir Keir Starmer’s new team has started work in Downing Street after yesterday’s sudden departure of his chief of staff Sue Gray. A cabinet minister admitted that the senior civil servant had become a “lightning conductor for criticism” of the Government.