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Analysis Boring John Healey succeeds in making UK Budget low key event

John Healey will give his first Budget as Chancellor on Wednesday afternoon (Photo by Annabel Lee-Ellis/PA Wire)placeholder image

UK Budget: Healey told to 'restore' Scots waters naval vessel patrols

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Andy Burnham: Russia interfered with the 2016 Brexit referendum

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Sir John Curtice: Very unlikely Burnham will call an early election

Westminster no more? The SNP should start boycotting the House of Commons, according to one nationalist MSP (Picture: Leon Neal)placeholder image

SNP to boycott Commons?! The £100K reason why it's not going to happen Scotsman comment

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Attacks on new SNP MP 'outrageous', says her predecessor

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Reform UK's Malcolm Offord diagnosed with prostate cancer

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Chinook families urge Burnham to launch new review into 1994 tragedy

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Explainer When will Andy Burnham become Prime Minister?

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‘Hands off our sgian dubhs!’ Ministers told to rule out ban on knives

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Reform's bid to criminalise Gaelic is 'anti-Scottish' plan, says SNP

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North Sea bosses send 'strongly worded letter' to MPs on oil and gas

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Explainer Who is Count Binface, the man challenging Nigel Farage?

Edinburgh North & Leith Labour MP Tracy Gilbertplaceholder image

'I was given up for adoption in Kirk mother and baby home', reveals MP

First Minister John Swinney and SNP MP Lara Birdplaceholder image

SNP defends new MP accused of putting on 'fake' Scottish accent

Andy Burnham taking a selfie with his new Labour colleagues in Westminster Hall.placeholder image

Labour MPs consider standing for leader to stop Burnham coronation

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MPs demand answer ahead of potential Westminster Murrell inquiry

The Tories' Douglas Lumsden (front row centre) celebrates with supporters at P&J Live in Aberdeen after winning the Aberdeen South by-electionplaceholder image

SNP infighting begins after thumping defeat in Aberdeen by-election

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'New ferries needed every 18 months to maintain reliability' - CalMac

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Keir Starmer backs Holyrood probe into Peter Murrell scandal

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Westminster committee delays decision on launching Murrell inquiry

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Swinney won't say whether he will cooperate with Murrell inquiry

Peter Murrell arrives in a prison van at the High Court in Edinburghplaceholder image

Analysis The key questions an inquiry into Peter Murrell scandal could ask

First Minister John Swinney speaks to the media in the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, about SNP chief executive Peter Murrellplaceholder image

SNP opposition to Murrell inquiry dismissed as 'hysterical nonsense'

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Coalsnaughton: Both governments must get serious on working together Rachel Amery

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is Labour’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election.placeholder image

Andy Burnham vows to stand in any potential Labour leadership contest

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Jack McConnell: 'Depressing' Holyrood is a shadow of its former self

Lord Peter Mandelson and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmerplaceholder image

Explainer What to expect as the second tranche of Mandelson files are published

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Exclusive Former FM calls for joint Westminster-Holyrood Peter Murrell inquiry

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Exclusive Tory Shadow Scots Secretary wants Westminster SNP embezzlement probe

Gordon McKee (back row, second from left), Melanie Ward (back row, second from right) and Zubir Ahmed (from row, centre left) sat around Wes Streeting during his speechplaceholder image

Who are Streeting's allies? The Scots MPs who back ex-health secretary

First Minister John Swinney and newly-appointed Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth arrive for the formal appointment of ministers at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Thursdayplaceholder image

Scotland faces race against time for economic growth, say CBI

Stephen Gethins MSP and Stephen Flynn MSPplaceholder image

Analysis Why the two Westminster by-elections are the SNP's to lose

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Starmer under more threat as Burnham finds route back to Commons

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SNP and Tories unite in call for Keir Starmer no confidence vote

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Analysis Starmer enjoys playing the lawyer during Mandelson Commons session

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Swinney shifts position on North Sea drilling amid energy crisis

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Tories to force Commons vote on new oil and gas projects

People around the world left tributes to those who were killed at Dunblane. Pixcture: Stefan Rousseau/AFP/Gettyplaceholder image

Farage told to apologise for calling Dunblane handgun ban 'ludicrous'

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First Peter Mandelson files to be published on Wednesday

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Rachel Reeves branded 'tone deaf' on energy in Spring Statement

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaving 11 Downing Street, London, for the House of Commons to deliver her spring statement to MPsplaceholder image

How will Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement affect Scots?

The Chancellor pledged more money for the Scotland, promised the public would be £1,000 better off by 2029 and pleaded with MPs not to oust Sir Keir Starmer

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Analysis Spring statement will be 'policy lite' - but all eyes on the forecasts

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The nationalists hoping to make the move from Westminster to Holyrood

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Cabinet rallies around Starmer as Sarwar says he should quit as PM

Imogen Walker was elected as Labour MP for Hamilton and Clyde Valley in 2024placeholder image

Exclusive Morgan McSweeney's wife has spoken least in Commons of Scottish MPs

Ex-Hartlepool MP Lord Peter Mandelson, left, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer before Lord Mandelson was sacked as US ambassador.placeholder image

Keir Starmer U-turns over Mandelson files after Labour MPs rebel

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Flynn's Westminster allies hoping to follow his lead to Holyrood

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Exclusive Scots MPs hit out at 'unacceptable treatment' of timber employees

Paul Greenwood is the UK chair of ExxonMobilplaceholder image

ExxonMobil UK boss doesn't know profits despite Mossmorran closure

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Grangemouth has 'huge potential' and jobs will come soon, says Starmer

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Exclusive Labour MP calls for 'serious debate' on abolition of House of Lords

More Scots MPs backed rejoining a customs union than opposedplaceholder image

No Scottish Labour MPs back bill to rejoin EU customs union

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Shorter probationary periods could help avoid unfair dismissal claims

Reform Party leader Nigel Farageplaceholder image

Scots investor hands Nigel Farage's Reform UK £100,000 donation

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Investigation into pre-Budget leaks underway with backing from Reeves

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wireplaceholder image

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