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Daily Record Political Editor // 📺 Politics on TV and radio 📻 //Planet Holyrood //[email protected] // @record_politics
Glasgow
Joined January 2011
🎙️ Latest episode of Planet Holyrood:. - SNP flip flop on PM's Brexit reset.- A former prostitute claims she had male MSP clients. - Two weeks to go in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election.
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Confirmed: Douglas Alexander is the new Scotland Secretary. It is also an incredible comeback. He was in the Cabinet in the last Labour Government and was Scotland Sec under Tony Blair.
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RT @lewis_goodall: McFadden going to DWP suggests to me government will have another stab at welfare reform.
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Labour peer George Foulkes brands the Prime Minister’s decision to sack Ian Murray as “disgraceful”.
If it is true that @IanMurrayMP has been sacked as S of S for Scotland it is a disgraceful decision. He held the fort well as Shadow Secretary through the lean years & has been a brilliant Secretary of State.
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Ian Murray played a sterling role for Labour in his party’s wilderness years. I expect he will be an important voice for Labour in the future.
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Douglas Alexander was recently appointed co-chair of Scottish Labour’s Holyrood election campaign. Senior party figures expect him to return to Cabinet after the departure of Ian Murray.
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2) There have been rumours for some time Murray would not be Scottish Sec for long. He and Anas Sarwar are not close allies. Potential replacements: Douglas Alexander; Michael Shanks; Kirsty McNeill.
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Ian Murray gone 🔽.
BREAK: Understand that Scottish Sec Ian Murray has left government.
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A catastrophe. Rayner was a serious contender to be PM (one day) and there may will be a divisive deputy leadership contest.
Angela Rayner has resigned. Massive blow for Keir Starmer's Government.
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EXC: SNP refuse to back ban on energy drinks for kids after Labour Government crackdown.
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EXCLUSIVE: Public Health Minister Jenni Minto said “evidence” does not support mandatory curbs
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EXC: Scottish Parliament in new sleaze storm over claims MSP "sent X-rated pictures” to staffer. Story by Mark McGivern.
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The Daily Record can reveal the senior politician used the gay dating app Grindr to connect with Holyrood staff.
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EXC: Court date set for MSP charged with possession of indecent images of children.
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Colin Smyth, who has been an MSP for nine years, was charged last month.
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New More in Common poll for Holyrood has the SNP 20 points ahead of Labour on the constituency vote. - SNP 37pc.- Labour 17pc.- Reform 16pc.- Con 12pc.- LD 12pc.- Green 5pc.
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🎙️Latest Planet Holyrood:. - Colin Smyth charged over spycam claims.- The SNP trying to correct their own mistakes on housing and drug deaths.- MSPs debate statehood for Palestine.
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The SNP Government's latest indyref2 paper - "Your Right to Decide" - is high on rhetoric and assertion, but low on any credible plan to secure a referendum. It's a re-heat which the UK Government (again) can ignore.
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NEW: Watchdog slams £1m golden goodbye payments for former council officials.
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Audit Scotland also said the absence of scrutiny by Glasgow council over the payments was "deeply concerning".
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EXC: Holyrood staff 'looking around the walls' in toilets after parliament spycam claims.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former SNP minister Ash Regan said people's sense of dignity had been knocked after MSP Colin Smyth was charged.
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RT @ARedPOV: Wow. Ball over the top from Lobban. Lazetic runs onto it, dummies it past keeper and passes it into the net. Lazetic double….
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Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.
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RT @ITVBorderRB: NEW: Health secretary Neil Gray appears to downgrade Scottish Government promise that by March 2026 no one will have to wa….
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