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The SNP was offered a debate – but what they wanted was a vote.
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Instead of voting on a ceasefire, the House of Commons descended into furious arguments between MPs and the speaker.
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The SNP are set to lose a seat in a vote triggered by a COVID scandal. But this is not one of their safer seats at the best of times.
Rhun ap Iorwerth has replaced Adam Price as Plaid Cymru leader.
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Rhun ap Iorwerth replaced Adam Price as Plaid Cymru leader.
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The party’s fate is deeply tied to support or opposition to independence.
The SNP’s former chief executive, Peter Murrell.
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The SNP faced unprecedented scenes yesterday when the husband of the recently resigned first minister was arrested at their home.
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The UK is now the only democracy where the children of formerly colonised people are running the country that colonised their parents’ and grandparents’ nations.
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The SNP’s new leader only just squeaked over the line against his rivals, which is a bad sign for his ambition to take Scotland out of the UK.
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Nicola Sturgeon has quit and now her husband Peter Murrell has resigned as chief-executive following news the SNP has lost more than 30,000 members since December 2021.
Nicola Sturgeon’s surprise resignation press conference.
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What does the future hold for Scottish independence and the SNP after Nicola Sturgeon?
Ian Blackford speaks during the state opening of parliament in 2019.
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The SNP leader has caused drama in the chamber on multiple occasions, often with the aim of bringing neglected subjects to public attention.
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The Scottish government wanted to trigger a second independence vote without consulting Westminster but that has been deemed not legally permissable.
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Does the law that created the Scottish parliament allow it to call indyref2?
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Forming a pact with the Liberal Democrats would make electoral sense in England – but Keir Starmer does not see it as a risk worth taking.
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The party of government in Scotland has strayed from its ‘social democratic’ vision and desperately needs a new approach to solving inequalities across society.
However you get there, just get there.
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What’s happening in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales this Thursday.
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A new study reveals how a narrative of Scottish openness to immigration encourages migrants to downplay their experiences of discrimination.
Scottish Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater are the UK’s first green party ministers.
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A green party is in government in the UK for the first time.
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Read the constituency results to understand where the independence debate heads next.
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The two big constitutional questions of the age have caused complicated divisions that help explain party support.