John Swinney: We must ‘start focusing again’ on what Scotland …
WEB1 day ago · Scotland must “start focusing again on the things that we can” do, First Minister John Swinney has said as he marks a decade since the independence referendum. Labelling the last ten years as a “long, dark decade”, Swinney is to tell a group of independence campaigners that the referendum left an “overwhelmingly positive legacy”.
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‘Our priority is to build support for independence’ – John Swinney
WEB1 day ago · First Minister John Swinney has said his “priority” is to build support for independence by encouraging people to see it as a “solution to the challenges” Scotland faces. Addressing a group of SNP activists and the media in Edinburgh on the 10-year anniversary of the independence referendum, Swinney said new powers devolved to …
Time and hubris have caught up with an SNP that became entitled …
WEB1 day ago · The SNP learned long ago that it could not rely solely on support for independence to become Scotland’s largest party. Over many decades its election slogans were remarkably coy about independence: ‘Put Scotland First’, ‘Good for Scotland’, ‘We Stand for Scotland’, ‘Let’s Make Scotland Matter’, ‘Elect a Local Champion’, ‘Yes We Can’, ’Stronger for Scotland ...
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Chronic Condition: Can a 'national conversation' help revitalise ...
WEB2 days ago · In Scotland, health secretary Neil Gray, who replaced Michael Matheson in February, has called for a “national conversation” about how the health service can be reformed to help meet today’s challenges while remaining free at the point of use. Gray has spoken of trying to find “consensus” and “a common vision” of what the NHS is ...
Where did all the hope of 2014 go? - holyrood.com
WEB1 day ago · Alamy. In the couple of years that followed, that enthusiasm and optimism about creating a better world continued. Many Yes campaigners I knew accepted the vote had not gone their way but were determined to use the energy of the referendum to improve Scotland as a part of the UK.
Why NHS transformation is vital to improve the nation's health
WEB2 days ago · Neil Gray’s timing could hardly have been worse. Appearing on a Holyrood panel at last month’s SNP conference the health secretary accused the media of “failing to recognise” the good work going on in the NHS and claimed journalists put forward a “persistent negative narrative” that leads the public to “only see that there is …
Mandy Rhodes wins Columnist of the Year - holyrood.com
WEBMay 30, 2024 · Mandy Rhodes, editor of Holyrood, has been named Columnist of the Year at this year’s Scottish Press Awards. The judges commended her on the quality of her writing, her inside knowledge of the political landscape and her ability to 'prick the Holyrood bubble'. Rhodes was amongst six journalists in the running for …
Live: First Minister's Questions - Holyrood Website
WEBSep 2, 2021 · 12:12pm: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says NHS staff were under-resourced and overworked before Covid, before criticising the government’s record on waiting times.The First Minister points to the waiting times recovery plan, which she said was having an impact before Covid. She says the pandemic has placed significant pressure on the NHS and before Covid, it was changing demographics ...