NEW: Liz Truss tells hustings in Cardiff Scottish Government is spending its 'entire resources' on independence. FM revealed in May the £20m set aside for the planned indyref2 next year is 0.05% of Scottish budget
Kathleen Nutt
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Kathleen Nutt
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Political Correspondent, The Herald; contact me on [email protected]
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined December 2012
- BREAKING: Brussels is looking at ways to enable Scotland to remain in the EU's Erasmus scheme. Move follows letter signed by 141 MEPs to European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen thenational.scot/news/19030905.…
- Nicola Sturgeon tells Holyrood at FMQs that NI's economy is benefiting from the protocol: "If I could get a protocol which would allow Scotland to trade freely across the single market I would take that in a heartbeat."
- BREAKING: Nicola Sturgeon will update Scotland on independence referendum plans next week, her spokesman has said. Her intention is still to deliver a vote on independence later this year. Story soon on @ScotNational
- Prof John Curtice on poll: “Never before have the foundations of public support for the Union looked so weak. Unsurprisingly, for many nationalists, the past 3 months have exemplified how Scotland could govern itself better as an independent, small country. 1/2
- EXCLUSIVE Nicola Sturgeon's government to ask UK Government for Scotland to stay in EU's Erasmus scheme. Statement in Holyrood expected tomorrow.
- Hearing that no Scottish newspaper journalist was invited - or even made aware - of the Downing Street briefing on the UK/EU trade negotiations.
- New SNP MEP Christian Allard applauded at euro parliament group MTG after he says he hopes the 28 star on EU flag will be for independent Scotland
- Blackford adds that Scotland yet to receive 'a single penny in compensation' from Westminster for Brexit and contrasts this with EU giving Ireland 1 billion euros to mitigate damage of UK leaving EU on the country.
- Fundamentally, it is the job of journalists to interrogate statements made by those in power - in the SNP's case that's almost 15 years. But those in power would of course prefer we didn't examine their statements and just kept quiet or rewrite their press releases. 6 END
- Interesting note in OECD report: "Evidence from PISA 2018 showed Scots students were among the top performers in central 21st century abilities, incl their capacity to engage with people from different cultures, and to act for collective well-being and sustainable development. "
- Doubt is now being cast on the independence of th Hamilton inquiry into Nicola Sturgeon after a senior civil servant was drafted in to support the probe but continued her role in government - briefing ministers on aspects of the inquiry before publication
- Scotland's Catholics to be given a strong hint this Sunday not to vote Conservative on 12 Dec. Pastoral letter to be read out at 500 churches warning of "a society which has forgotten its poor" and policy backing for nuclear weapons and arms trade.
