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đș EXCLUSIVE: Greater Glasgow has the highest concentration of elite-performing schools in Scotland, accounting for eight of the top ten places in The Sunday Times Secondary School League Table. See where your local school ranks here âŹïž
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The Duchess of Sussex has spoken out about her âabsolute devastationâ at the racial divisions in the US and the death of George Floyd, telling girls graduating at her old high school: âIâm so sorry you have to grow up in a world where this is still present
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Emma Watson said: âI never believed the whole âIâm happy singleâ spiel. It took me a long time but Iâm very happy [being single]. I call it being self-partneredâ
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"The great thing about Scotland is that within about an hour you can get from any of our big cities into some remote landscapes". Outlander actor @SamHeughan and his on-screen uncle, Graham McTavish, reveal their favourite Scottish hangouts
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Chinese citizens were urged to beat an Edinburgh University student to death for demonstrating in support of Hong Kong democracy
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The comedian @janeygodley, who is now in palliative care, and her daughter Ashley Storrie, a comedian and actress, on being cancelled, living in a pub and their final goodbye. Read the full interview here âŹïž.
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@NcutiGatwa .@SamHeughan, the star of Outlander and another former RCS student, was also awarded an honorary doctorate.
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JK Rowling has described a Scottish policy in which police can record a rape as being committed by a woman if the attacker âidentifies as a femaleâ as Orwellian
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Scotlandâs national clinical director has admitted that closing nightclubs and cancelling football fixtures has made little difference to Scotlandâs coronavirus case numbers compared with the more liberal regime in England
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Girls are refusing to use gender-neutral toilets at Scottish secondary schools amid reports male pupils have been seen âwaving sanitary products like flagsâ and urinating in sanitary bins
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Officials in Brussels have contradicted Nicola Sturgeon and reiterated the EUâs policy which insists new member states must âlegally commitâ to join the euro single currency
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Official documents have revealed that Scotlandâs former first minister attempted to get his family moved ânearer the front of the queueâ as his parents-in-law sought refuge in neighbouring Egypt before flying home to Scotland
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Holyrood officials have been warned they face legal action after women were removed from a debate on gender reforms for wearing scarves associated with the suffragette movement
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She added: âHow did they have everything locked down for the important people but they couldnât even put lights up in the park? They donât care about ordinary womenâs safety, they care about the first minister and the duchess of whatever.â
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đș BREAKING: The SNP wants to work with Sinn Fein, Scotlandâs deputy first minister said, as the Republican party was poised to be the largest in Northern Ireland writes @KieranPAndrews
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Nicola Sturgeon vowed to establish three fast-track cancer diagnosis centres by the summer if the SNP wins the election in May. Only four months ago her government unveiled plans to create two of the same units by spring, neither of which has been set up
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đ Highlights over the first weekend of @AyeWrite include TV star turned novelist Mel Giedroyc and Outlander actors @SamHeughan and @grahammctavish on their epic road trip around the country
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Steven Gerrard looks quietly terrified of the size of the job facing him in trying to mould Rangers into a force again in Scotland, let alone Europe, writes @GrahamSpiers
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JK Rowling has accused Nicola Sturgeon of prioritising the views of lobby groups over the safety of women and girls by pushing through gender reforms in the face of public opposition
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đș NEW: Nicola Sturgeonâs most senior legal adviser refused to authorise her governmentâs proposals to hold a second independence referendum
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đș EXCLUSIVE: Sir Keir Starmer is more popular than Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, according to a new poll that shows support for Labour significantly increasing north of the border
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A rape crisis centre run by a trans woman has been âillegitimatelyâ hiding the biological sex of its counsellors from victims of sexual assault, an employment tribunal has heard
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đș EXCLUSIVE: Celtic are poised to pay multimillion-pound damages within months after agreeing to settle legal claims over systematic child abuse at their feeder club
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đș NEW: Nicola Sturgeonâs officials helped a transgender charity accused of harming children gain a foothold in Scotland to lobby for gender recognition reform and the continued use puberty blockers
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Police have apologised to women left âin tearsâ after being forced to walk through a âpitch-blackâ park because of #Cop26 road closures
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"When I watched Luciana Berger deliver her speech I cried because of its integrity, bravery and grace. And I cried because in my entire adult life what happened yesterday is the one of the lowest political moments for British Jews" -- @Dannythefink
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đș EXCLUSIVE: The SNP is being investigated by parliamentary authorities over the alleged inappropriate use of public money to fund the partyâs general election campaign.
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đș EXCLUSIVE: Celtic FC must apologise for harbouring a paedophile ring and delaying justice for individuals who suffered âunimaginable horrorsâ while under their care, a senior MSP has said
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Support for independence has risen again and accelerated up the priority list for Scottish voters, according to a new poll
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"I donât know how many Shamima-haters out there have teenage daughters, but âbeing unlovably defensive about massively screwing upâ is ⊠kind of their thing": @caitlinmoran on Isis bride Shamima Begum
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Labour and the SNP moved towards a pact last night that would seek to oust Boris Johnson as the parties prepared for an autumn election
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đș JUST IN: The Scottish Conservatives are in terminal decline and destined for third place in the council elections because of Douglas Rossâs ârisibleâ defence of Boris Johnson, according to a former MSP
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Nicola Sturgeon has promised that an abortion conference being held in Edinburgh today will âreaffirm womenâs autonomy and right to chooseâ as she comes under increased pressure to create buffer zones around clinics
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âIt was an honour, especially considering the prestigious names I was up againstâ . @AamerAnwar reflects on winning Lawyer of the Year at the 2017 @LegalAwards
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A multimillion-pound lawsuit against Celtic FC by survivors of sexual abuse has taken a significant step forward
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đșNEW: Jim McColl has called on the Scottish government to lift a confidentiality order on a former executive at his shipyard after it emerged Audit Scotland was unable to interview him during its investigation into the Ferguson ferry fiasco
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The Welsh government today joined Scotlandâs in defying Downing Street and setting out its own plans for how and when the coronavirus lockdown might be relaxed
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BBC Scotland has refused to allow Douglas Ross, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, to make a televised address on coronavirus despite broadcasting Sir Keir Starmer across Britain
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Facebook has shut down the accounts of fake Scottish independence supporters that it says were run by Iran
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Ahead of #Cop26, Glasgow is bracing itself for the largest protests seen in Scotland since demonstrations against the Iraq war in 2003.
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The makers of Coke, Irn Bru and Pepsi have defended Scotlandâs deposit return scheme and called on the next first minister to ensure the project goes ahead on schedule this summer
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Scots have always been cooler towards the monarchy and without the Queen the ties that bind the United Kingdom are likely to loosen | âïž @alexmassie
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đș BREAKING: The police investigation into the SNPâs finances has been expanded to look at allegations of âmisuse of fundsâ and âpotential embezzlementâ, Scotlandâs chief constable has confirmed
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Lawyers have cleared SNP ministers to begin paving the way for a second independence referendum
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âĄïž ICYMI: Relive the highlights from the @ASInvestmentsUK Diversity Summit in Gleneagles #StrengthInDiversity .
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Scotland is the most unhappy country in the UK, according to the latest official wellbeing statistics.
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SNP MP @joannaccherry has said that she has been approached by âmanyâ Labour MPs who want to back her plan to revoke Article 50 if a no-deal scenario seems inevitable
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Dozens of influential figures from Scottish culture and academia - including writer @valmcdermid and historian Sir Tom Devine - have drawn up a prospectus of âguiding principlesâ for independence including the introduction of a written constitution
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Unionist parties are on the verge of a return to power at Holyrood as the SNP begins a similar slide towards apathy and infighting that smashed the nationalist movement in Quebec, an international relations expert said
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The actor Alan Cumming has hit out at the âinsidious and subliminal racismâ faced by Scots who work in London, drawing a sharp distinction between the warm reception he received in America with his experiences in the West End
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The term âmotherâ was removed from Scottish government maternity policies after they were lobbied by a leading LGBT+ charity, it has emerged
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"Iâm struggling not to let myself get paranoid but it has a darkness about itâ . A German grandmother who came to Britain in the final year of the Second World War has spoken out about what being forced to âregisterâ before Brexit feels like
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Hospital managers have been warned they could be guilty of discrimination if they put transwomen in single rooms to avoid upsetting patients in female-only wards
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Andy Burnham is considering launching legal action against the Scottish government over Nicola Sturgeonâs decision to ban travel between Scotland and Greater Manchester
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More than half of Nicola Sturgeonâs cabinet have downloaded Signal, an encrypted messaging service in which conversations can be made to disappear
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Scottish government officials tried to prevent Alex Salmond from releasing court papers showing that the lord advocate ordered a search of Scotlandâs most senior civil servantâs office in a hunt for missing documents
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đș NEW: A leading adviser to Nicola Sturgeon has blamed âthe English governmentâ for the decision to postpone lockdown, which was agreed by all four nations of the UK
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đș NEW: A transgender woman has denied raping two women with her penis as she went on trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
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Ministers have been accused of a âstitch-upâ after it emerged that an international review of Scotlandâs schools that will only be published after the Holyrood election has already been delivered to the government
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Patients who raise concerns about trans women being put on female-only hospital wards are comparable with racists and may have to be âremovedâ, NHS guidance suggests
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The Rainbow Greens, a group representing LGBTQ+ members of the Scottish Greens, submitted the motion, accusing the Greens of âtransphobic bigotryâ, âhomophobic bigotryâ and disrespecting the devolution settlement. It was overwhelmingly backed by members
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đș EXCLUSIVE: Support for the Conservatives has plummeted in the wake of the chaotic mini-budget, with the party set to return to âminnowâ status in Scotland after the next general election, a new poll has found
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Nicola Sturgeon has doubled down on her assertion that she âdetestsâ Conservatives after making comments that political opponents warned she risked inciting violence
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SNP MPs should be forced to answer for the Scottish governmentâs dismal record at new question time sessions in the House of Commons, Sir Iain Duncan Smith has claimed
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Nicola Sturgeon says she is âdeeply frustrated and depressedâ that Boris Johnson is preparing for a no-deal Brexit after she suspended her Scottish independence campaign because of the pandemic
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đș EXCLUSIVE: The total cost to the taxpayer from the failed police investigation into the takeover of Rangers FC is set to reach more than ÂŁ100 million
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She eventually left the park only to be told by an officer to go back the way she came. âI felt completely trapped; I couldnât get home, but the police were acting like it was just a mild inconvenience to people,â she said.
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Nicola Sturgeon has been warned that spending more than ÂŁ1.5m a year of public money using civil servants to build her case for independence could be illegal
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Sir Tom Hunter has warned Scotland should not be seeking independence just âbecause we donât like who is in Westminsterâ as he launched a scheme to help boost the nationâs economy
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Sir Andy Murray said he wished his two young daughters had been old enough to see him receive his knighthood from the Prince of Wales
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Nicola Sturgeon is set to relaunch her campaign for a second independence referendum next month
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A lawyer representing the families of people who died in care homes has demanded a separate Scottish public inquiry into what he called the âstate killingâ of thousands of elderly residents during the pandemic
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Nicola Sturgeon kept Scotland in the dark over its first mass Covid outbreak against the advice of her health minister and the deputy chief medical officer â and a leading scientist says it potentially exposed more people to the virus
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The decision to pay damages comes after evidence disclosed in an investigation by The Times contradicted and undermined the Scottish football championâs insistence that it was an âentirely separate organisationâ to Celtic Boys Club
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SNP ministers have refused to accept millions of pounds from the UK government to upgrade Scotlandâs roads
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The SNPâs president has been condemned after comparing the invasion of Ukraine to the UK governmentâs refusal to agree to a second independence referendum
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Analysis đ| Nicola Sturgeonâs robust performance before the #Salmondinquiry ensures her political survival, writes Magnus Linklater
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Brian Coxâs view that Scots will inevitably back independence because they are fundamentally different from the English has been described as âill informed, wrong and dangerousâ
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Nicola Sturgeon avoided using official phones as first minister. Transparency and security concerns raised over former SNP leader and most of her cabinet using only personal devices âŹïž
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Professor Robert West, a member of Boris Johnsonâs own scientific advisory group for emergencies, described the prime ministerâs plan to lift most coronavirus restrictions in two weeks as âmadnessâ as he urged Nicola Sturgeon to chart a different course
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A former leader of Scottish Labour has admitted voting for the SNP because she was âso mad about Brexitâ
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Joanna Cherry has launched a spectacular attack on Nicola Sturgeonâs leadership of the SNP, accusing the party of âStalinist revisionismâ after she was sacked from the Westminster frontbench
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Outlander actor @SamHeughan and his on-screen uncle, Graham McTavish, reveal their favourite Scottish hangouts just in time for yesterdayâs lifting of the travel ban.
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The actor Alan Cumming has hit out at the âinsidious and subliminal racismâ faced by Scots who work in London, drawing a sharp distinction between the warm reception he received in America with his experiences in the West End.
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One woman said that she was upset after a ten-minute journey to her flat near Kelvingrove Art Gallery took more than 90 minutes and involved crossing an unlit park.
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Jess Phillips will travel to Glasgow today, where she is expected to pledge that a Labour Party led by her would be â100 per cent committed to the Unionâ
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đș EXCLUSIVE: Rangers FC have dismissed claims that an allegedly fraudulent bid to recruit investors in the club was accidentally leaked by the singer Darius Campbell shortly before his mysterious death
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The SNP is viewed as the best party for growth and investment among business in Scotland as Labour suffered a steep decline in support, a survey reveals.
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đș NEW: The SNP deputy leader may have broken the ministerial code by providing âunsatisfactory and evasiveâ answers over his knowledge of a disastrous ferry contract, MSPs have warned
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Nicola Sturgeon is facing pressure to announce changes to Covid restrictions in the Scottish parliament rather than in a TV studio so that MSPs can scrutinise her judgment
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Elderly LGBT people in Scotland are so afraid of going into care homes where they face homophobic discrimination that some are considering assisted suicide instead, research has shown
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SNP members are increasingly nervous about a deal to govern with the Greens after Andy Wightman, the former MSP, said there was a âcensorious, bullying and intimidatory cultureâ among the would-be ministers
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Students at one of Scotlandâs ancient universities have called for Camilla to be removed as its ceremonial head
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McFarlane was finally found guilty of two rape charges, as well as attempting to defeat the ends of justice, and sentenced to five years in prison in July last year after @ellieokwilson used her iPhone to covertly record him as he confessed to his crimes
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Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, principal of the University of Glasgow, has called for Britainâs exit from the European Union to be halted in an uncompromising attack on the âxenophobia and economic illiteracyâ of the hard Brexiteers
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đș EXCLUSIVE: Humza Yousafâs officials offered to send NHS medical supplies to Gaza to ease the humanitarian crisis, it can be revealed.
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đșNEW: The Scottish government is set to be investigated by UK officials over concerns it has been spending public money on issues outside of its remit, such as achieving independence, the UK parliament has heard
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Nicola Sturgeon claims she did not know discharged hospital patients with no coronavirus symptoms could infect care home residents despite advice to the contrary from government scientists as far back as January
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đș BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeonâs husband loaned more that ÂŁ100,000 to the SNP to âassist with cashflow after the Holyrood electionâ but failed to declare it for more than a year
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A second independence referendum must be refused even if the SNP secures a majority of votes at the next general election, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats has claimed
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đș BREAKING: Kate Forbes has suggested that Humza Yousaf lacks a âbig visionâ for Scotland and confirmed that she would likely run again to be leader of the SNP.
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