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Salmond sets out Scottish plans for Defence Force »

Alex Salmond has announced that the recommendations of the UK Defence Review could offer a blueprint for the military in an independent Scotland. In an interview with the BBC, the First Minister outlined a “defence force” of one naval base...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Rory Scothorne | Read more »

Lord Steel warns against bungled intervention in Independence debate »

A former Holyrood presiding officer has warned David Cameron and other senior English politicians to stay out of the Scottish independence debate at the risk of handing victory to the SNP. Lord Steel, a Liberal Democrat peer, accused the coalition Gov...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Dominique Cottee | Read more »

No RUK fees respite for Scottish Government as students march in Edinburgh »

Protesters march against rest-of-UK (RUK) fees

Edinburgh students last week staged another demonstration in the Scottish capital, the latest in a series of recent protests against rising tuition fees and swingeing cuts to higher education. The march from the Scottish Parliament to the Scotland Off...

Mon 28 Nov 2011 by Marcus Kernohan, Greg Bianchi | Read more »

Scottish Tories: A new captain is not enough. We need a new ship »

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The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party keeps losing. We lost all our MPs in 1997. We lost vote share in 1999. We lost seats and vote-share in 2007, and then again in 2011. It wasn’t for lack of trying: our people worked hard and we had goo...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Murdo Fraser | Read more »

Conservatives ponder further cuts to Scottish MPs »

The Conservatives have reiterated policy plans to cut 10 percent of MPs and set a fixed UK electoral quota as part of their parliamentary reforms. Should he become the next prime minister, David Cameron plans to push for a constituency boundary review...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Where the Party's at »

Where the Party's at

When the Tories were slowly imploding in the run up to our first landslide victory in 1997, former minister Alan Clark called me to bemoan his party's fate. As my diaries show, this fellow diarist phoned me rather a lot, more th an his party whips a...

Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Alastair Campbell | Read more »

Scottish Sun refuses to endorse Tories »

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The editor of the Scottish edition of tabloid newspaper The Sun has said he will not be offering his backing to David Cameron’s Conservative Party. The decision follows the declaration of support for the Conservatives, published by the newspaper...

Wed 14 Oct 2009 by Joe Pike | Read more »

SNP referendum plans on hold after parliamentary defeat »

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The Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives and the Labour Party have voted to ditch SNP plans for a referendum on Scottish independence until after the next election in 2011. The vote, which was a Lib Dem amendment to a Labour-led discussion on the fail...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Anna Murray | Read more »

Conservatives pledge to support vocations »

The Conservative party has pledged to create a scheme which will introduce bursaries to move students from apprenticeships into higher education. The policy will create up to 1,200 university places for vocational subjects like science and engineering,...

Tue 14 Oct 2008 by Michael Fern | Read more »

Conservatives change tack on Iraq war »

Iraq war sees growing numbers of casualties

The first act of a Conservative government will be to launch a full inquiry into the war in Iraq, the party's foreign affairs spokesperson has promised.The announcement was made by shadow foreign secretary, William Hague in his speech to the Conservati...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

Tories race ahead in polls »

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The Tories have raced ahead in the English polls, opening up their biggest lead since the 1980s.A survey by YouGov puts the Conservatives on 43 per cent, eleven points up on Labour on 32 per cent. The Liberal Democrats trail on 14 per cent.The Conserva...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 | Read more »

Health and Safety? What a load of poppycock »

George Scott McCombe

I firmly believe that the upset produced by the continued presence of Nannery dwarfed the poignancy of Remembrance Sunday. On the one day when the nation takes some time out of its busy schedule to remember the heroism of the men who fought, and often ...

Mon 19 Nov 2007 | Read more »

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