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Deputy political editor @Daily_Record // @Record_Politics. Story? [email protected]
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Joined January 2011
Angela Constance has snubbed MSPs over claims she misrepresented the views of an expert on a grooming gangs inquiry for Scotland. https://t.co/68XkaPzGzV
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Angela Constance was said to be travelling on government business after MSPs demanded answers on the row.
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This just looks worse and worse for the SNP Government.
Good grief. John Swinney told me he would let Angela Constance explain allegations she misrepresented the views of a grooming gangs expert. But today it was left to a junior Minister to address MSPs. The Justice Secretary was "travelling" on SG business.
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Arise Sir Steve? John Swinney has now backed the calls https://t.co/qTwOeHrz6C
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The First Minister told an audience in London he would consider calls for a bank holiday to mark Scotland's return to the world's biggest sporting event.
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Steve Clarke should receive a knighthood after guiding Scotland to their first World Cup finals since 1998, an MSP has said. https://t.co/cF1aK7LfTg
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A motion lodged at the Scottish Parliament calls on MSPs to support the Tartan Army boss receiving royal recognition for his efforts.
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Cheers in the House of Commons as Keir Starmer congratulates Scotland after the men's team qualified for next year's World Cup. "I didn't realise you were all Scottish MPs," quips Lindsay Hoyle.
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.@DAGToddBlanche discusses the negative impact of activist judges with @GeneHamiltonUSA: “Having a judge who follows the Constitution is a very basic tenet of justice in this country. The system is not set up for efficiency when it comes to rogue, activist judges.”
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ExxonMobil quick to blame the UK Government for its decision to sack hundreds of Scots workers weeks before Christmas. This hard-pressed Texan company paid its CEO $44 million last year.
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Other ministers have resigned for less.
EXC: The SNP Justice Secretary has been urged to issue a public apology after she 'misrepresented' a renowned grooming gang expert. https://t.co/mK2jsPoBvy
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Do you have any family or friends that have quit church?
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Unite is demanding ExxonMobil withdraw the immediate threat of closing its plant at Mossmorran. "ExxonMobil is one of the richest companies in the world. It cannot be allowed to walk away and leave an industrial wasteland in Fife."
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Robert Deavy, GMB union senior organiser, said Mossmorran proved that Government ministers can no longer ignore the "economic carnage" being inflicted by a rushed rundown of the offshore sector.
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ExxonMobil has announce the closure of its Mossmorran plant just weeks after the company was fined £176,000 after pleading guilty to flaring emission breaches in 2019.
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Another huge blow to Scotland's already shrinking industrial base. https://t.co/n13peytWhc
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The chemical plant near Cowdenbeath in Fife supports around 500 jobs.
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BREAKING: The Mossmorran petrochemical plant in Fife is to close next year. Hundreds of jobs at risk.
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Scotland’s average prison population is now at its highest level since records began more than 50 years ago. The average daily population in the country's overcrowded jails last year was 8,213 - up from 7,856 the previous year.
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Asylum is, of course, a reserved issue. But Scotland's more liberal homelessness laws are widely viewed as driving more people north to claim emergency housing. https://t.co/B8XruJlk7S
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Glasgow has become a magnet for former asylum seekers looking for emergency housing due to more liberal laws in Scotland.
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Shirley-Anne Somerville admits the housing emergency in Glasgow, driven in part by former asylum seekers arriving from elsewhere in the UK, is "unsustainable". She says the Home Office must not put "greater financial pressure" on the city. No mention of the SNP offering cash.
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