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Thursday, March 28, 2024

The UK Parliament

Prime Minister’s honours list leaked

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SNP MP Pete Wishart has criticised the Tories for "handing out peerages like sweeties" - after details of Theresa May's resignation honours list emerged.According...

Jardine disappointed at news from Edinburgh Airport

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Today Edinburgh West MP Christine Jardine has expressed her disappointment at the news that Edinburgh Airport will not introduce an offset or curved approach for landing aircraft. The solution had...

Government issues Covid Secure advice for business

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The UK Government has now issued its advice to businesses in England to prepare for a return to work where possible.This was mentioned...

Lifeline Universal Credit must not be cut

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Owen Thompson MP has called for the £20 per week rise in Universal Credit to be made permanent to help protect from poverty, and...

Brexit action at Court of Session begins today

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An action has begun this morning at the Court of Session in Edinburgh where 70 plus politicians have brought an action asking the Court...

MP backing award-winning disability employment programme

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Joanna Cherry QC MP is backing Leonard Cheshire’s award-winning Change 100 disability employment programme and is urging employers to sign up for the innovative...

UK Government invest in Scottish research

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A research project led by Heriot-Watt University is one of three awarded funding by the UK Government today.The Centre for Regulated Bio-Manufacture aims...

Edinburgh MP claims the drug laws don’t work

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by Tommy Sheppard MP for Edinburgh EastLast year 1187 people died in Scotland from a drug related death.  This is a crisis. And the...

UK Government awards £2 million to King’s Theatre renovation

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The UK Government has awarded £2 million towards the renovation of The King's Theatre which will ensure it becomes fully accessible for the first...

Jardine secures ministerial support for clean air campaign

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Christine Jardine MP secured support from Environment Secretary Michael Gove for her campaign to improve air quality in her constituency of Edinburgh West.The one-to-one...

Westminster incident this afternoon – four dead

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Earlier today an incident at Westminster has resulted in the deaths of four people, which number includes the attacker, a woman and a police officer. It appears...

Hibs aim to sign Ryan Gauld on loan

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Neil Lennon is trying to arrange the loan signing of former Dundee United winger Ryan Gauld from Sporting Lisbon.Gauld, who joined Sporting in a...

Deidre calls for action on institutional racism

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Deidre Brock SNP MP for Edinburgh North and Leith has called for an unflinching look at institutional racism at Westminster after today’s announcement of an...

UK Budget delayed until March

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The UK Government and the Chancellor Sajid Javid have decided that the budget will take place on 11 March 2020. This date has a...

Calls for government to get on track with new Winchburgh railway...

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The UK Minister for Levelling Up Rachel Maclean has joined Lothians MSP Sue Webber in calling for a new railway station at Winchburgh.The...

Midlothian MP backs the Great Daffodil Appeal

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Owen Thompson MP for Midlothian met with actor Jane Horrocks to give his support to Marie Curie's annual Great Daffodil Appeal.The event at Westminster...

Edinburgh West MP calls for Tories to stop cutting benefits

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In her first keynote speech as Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions spokesperson, Christine Jardine will today outline her priorities to her party’s conference in...

Rishi Sunak to be the next Prime Minister

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Rishi Sunak became the only candidate as new leader of the Conservative party when Penny Mordaunt withdrew from the race with a few moments...

Greenpeace Edinburgh to hold Town hall event on Thursday

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Greenpeace Edinburgh will hold a town hall event at the Grassmarket Community Project on Thursday focused on the cost of living and climate crises....

Speaking to Owen Thompson MP

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Speaking to Owen Thompson MP over Zoom for this interview, it was clear that one of the reasons he enjoyed working from home was...

Thompson leads debate on support for small limited companies

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Owen Thompson MP is leading a debate in the House of Commons on Monday calling on the UK Government to provide greater parity in...

Sarah Masson announced as SNP candidate for Edinburgh West

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The SNP has announced that Sarah Masson will stand as their candidate in Edinburgh West at the next UK general election. Sarah, who led the...

Scotland at the forefront of Labour’s energy plan but Tories not...

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Labour say they have a world leading plan to make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030, and the plan will be “made in...

SNP at Westminster urge cross-party action

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With just a month to go until 31 October when the UK should have left the EU, the SNP leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford,...

Scots dad wins Sir Keir Starmer backing for vaccine priority for...

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The Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has given his unequivocal backing to a campaign to secure Covid-19 vaccine priority for terminally ill patients.Sir...

The Old Edinburgh Club – a series of winter talks

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The Old Edinburgh Club is the city's local history society, concerned with all aspects of the city’s history and development. The Old Edinburgh Club...

Jardine congratulates forestry prize winner

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Christine Jardine, Liberal Democrat MP for Edinburgh West, joined her constituent David Pelly, to celebrate his success in a writing competition to highlight the...

Murray continues to probe over Nike conference in Edinburgh

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Ian Murray, MP for Edinburgh South and Shadow Scottish Secretary, says that questions continue to mount over the Edinburgh Nike conference.He criticises the decision...

Local politicians react to Westminster Hall speech by Ukrainian president

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid a visit to the UK today and visited the UK Parliament where hundreds of MPs listened to him speak...

Article 50 case referred to the Court of Justice of the...

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by Joanna Cherry QC MP  In the wake of Theresa May’s Salzburg humiliation the British government was dealt a double blow when Scotland’s most senior...