Nicola Sturgeon.
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The fallout over the Scottish government’s gender recognition legislation has not happened in isolation.
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP conference in April 2022.
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Recent polling indicates that the EU question is central in the minds of Scottish independence voters.
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Nicola Sturgeon has announced plans for indyref2. An expert explains what’s changed since the last time.
1922 and all that: Ireland had a reality check after gaining independence.
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After 1922, the people that had supported independence often weren’t the ones who benefited from it.
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon thinks she’s found the exit.
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Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland out, Boris Johnson hopes to hold it all together and Mark Drakeford believes in the best of both worlds.
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When should you tune in for the big announcements over the weekend?
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The two big constitutional questions of the age have caused complicated divisions that help explain party support.
Busted flush?
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There’s everything to play for as Scotland counts down to May 6.
She’s back.
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Those who talk down an independent Scotland’s prospects are not factoring in one of its biggest natural resources.
Nicola Sturgeon at the beginning of her evidence to the cross-party committee.
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She defended herself robustly and humbly admitted to errors, but the first minister is still on shaky ground when it comes to crucial questions.
Let battle commence …
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Economics is set to dominate the debate, just like last time around.
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Coronavirus may be delaying Alex Salmond’s reckoning, but both the Scottish government and the SNP as a party have some difficult times ahead.
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Independence is a vexed question for the Scottish people, especially with so much yet unknown about how the UK will fare in its divorce from the European Union.
What’s on the cards.
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The SNP administration has adopted a fashionable so-called ‘mission-oriented’ approach for its flagship economic development plan, but it looks a lot like mission impossible.
The prime minister may be assured that this issue will not be going away any time soon as Nicola Sturgeon makes a democratic case for transferring powers rather than a legal one.
Nicola Sturgeon in Glasgow on election night.
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Independence support in Scotland is now at critical levels. The ball is in the UK prime minister’s court.
‘Come and have a go, Boris.’
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At first glance it seems like a strange strategy to go big on another independence referendum when half of Scots would vote No.