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  • Kevin Hollindrake, the business and trade minister, told parliament that options have been ‘devised’ for dealing with outstanding convictions.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Government has ‘devised options’ to deal with outstanding Horizon convictions in Post Office scandal, minister says – as it happened

    Government hopes to soon be able to announce measures for resolving outstanding criminal convictions, business minister Kevin Hollinrake says
  • Anas Sarwar

    Scottish Labour leader appeals to pro-independence voters to ‘boot Tories out’

    Anas Sarwar speaks directly to previous SNP loyals to help oust Conservative government
  • Liz Lloyd

    The path to independence is longer than the SNP would like – but it will lead there in the end

    Liz Lloyd
    Those looking to get elected in Scotland, know this: ‘yes’ voters are increasing in number, and they’re playing the long game, says Liz Lloyd, former chief of staff to Nicola Sturgeon

November 2023

  • Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf.

    Scotland wasting time on constitutional disputes, says thinktank

    Gordon Brown’s Our Scottish Future says reforms and investment hampered by focus on referendums

October 2023

  • First Minister Humza Yousaf during his speech during the SNP annual conference in Aberdeen.

    The Guardian view on the SNP conference: there are no shortcuts to a mandate for independence

  • Humza Yousaf.

    Scottish council tax to be frozen next year, Humza Yousaf tells SNP conference

  • The SNP leader, Humza Yousaf, speaking at the party conference.

    Today in Focus
    Is the SNP’s independence dream fading?

  • Justice secretary Alex Chalk in the House of Commons.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Government to allow prisons to release some offenders 18 days early to ease overcrowding – as it happened

  • Humza Yousaf quells SNP rebellion with independence strategy compromise

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney endorses Rachel Reeves – as it happened

  • Labour is now a serious threat to the SNP. But will it learn the lessons of the past?

    James Mitchell
  • ‘We live in a complicated country’: David Olusoga on the UK’s contested union, then and now

September 2023

  • David Olusoga in the UK parliamentary archives in the first episode of his new series Union with David Olusoga.

    UK schools should teach all four nations’ histories, says David Olusoga

  • Humza Yousaf

    Humza Yousaf rallies supporters to march for independence after difficult summer

August 2023

  • Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape at the Lyceum in Edinburgh.

    Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape review – Chekhovian attempt to capture a political turning point

    At a dinner party attended by a child ghost and a goading TV pundit warning of apocalypse, a middle-class literati find themselves on the brink of social upheaval
  • Labour leader Keir Starmer.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour party membership fell by almost 25,000 in 2022, while its income rose, figures show – as it happened

    The party had 407,445 members at the end of 2022, down almost 25,000 compared with 2021, annual accounts show
    • My view on Scottish independence has moved, says Kezia Dugdale

    • ‘It’s the first major work about the referendum’: how Scotland’s big moment finally made good drama

    • Angus MacNeil expelled from SNP after row with party’s chief whip

July 2023

  • Humza Yousaf

    Independent Scotland would base citizenship on current Irish model

    Plans, unveiled by Humza Yousaf, include significantly reducing application fees
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