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Scottish National party (SNP)

August 2024

  • Keir Starmer meets John Swinney, the Scottish first minister and SNP leader, during a visit to Edinburgh in July.

    The Guardian view on Scottish politics today: the SNP is down but it is definitely not out

    Editorial: Labour commands the field, but its general election success is unlikely to be repeated in the 2026 Holyrood contest
  • Humza Yousaf seated at a desk, signing a letter

    Humza Yousaf concedes sacking Scottish Greens was a mistake

    At Edinburgh fringe event, former first minister uses colourful language in recalling events that led to his resignation from Holyrood
  • Mhairi Black.

    Mhairi Black: Politics Isn’t For Me review – ex-youngest MP trades Commons for comedy therapy

    The former SNP wunderkind brings her popular touch to the standup stage, pairing irreverent personal stories with a gasp-inducing exposé of Westminster flummery

July 2024

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer stands and speaks in the House of Commons during his first Prime Minister's Questions as prime minister, Wednesday 24 July; his ministers are seen on the bench behind him

    Keir Starmer’s show of force sends message to his backbenchers

  • Keir Starmer faced questions about a Commons rebellion on the two-child benefit limit during the first prime minister's questions since the election

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    Keir Starmer clashes with SNP over two-child benefit cap in first PMQs as prime minister – video

  • Composite image of John McDonnell, Richard Burgon, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Apsana Begum, Imran Hussain, Ian Byrne, Zarah Sultana.

    Labour suspends seven rebels who voted to scrap two-child benefit cap

  • Labour MP calls two-child benefit cap ‘heinous’ in latest call to scrap policy

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer warns ‘no quick fix’ for UK as he faces pressure over child poverty and benefits – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Yvette Cooper to chair meeting of taskforce considering ‘alarming rise’ in candidate intimidation – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Badenoch confirms she did criticise Sunak over election at shadow cabinet – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves says new government has inherited ‘worst set of circumstances since second world war’ – as it happened

  • Rise of smaller parties: key takeaways from voting patterns in UK election

  • Where will they all sit? Commons welcomes 334 rookie MPs in most diverse parliament

  • Voter turnout at general election was lowest since 2001 – politics live as it happened

  • Defeated Joanna Cherry says battered SNP’s ‘ship has gone down’

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Rachel Reeves becomes UK’s first female chancellor; former Tory chair says party faces ‘oblivion’ – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer enters No 10 vowing to rebuild Britain ‘brick by brick’

  • ‘Everything has been so tribal’: Glasgow reflects on Labour’s clean sweep

  • A triumphant Labour in Westminster, a humiliated SNP in Holyrood: Scotland is entering interesting times

    Rory Scothorne
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