Lara Bird

I would like to have an independence referendum tomorrow, and I understand that one of the really key motivations behind this new ‘independence’ group is urgency and is making sure that we're moving forward as quickly as we can.

One of my friends who was sitting in that room just over a year ago was killed. Was murdered by an Israeli settler.

It has been decades that the UK Government has been faced with facts, has been faced with reality and has chosen not to do anything about it.

Ed Miliband's statement might show a small change in narrative from the UK Government, but this is not a government that is actively looking to save Palestinian lives.

Have absolutely no doubt that when I’m in Westminster representing you, representing Arbroath and Broughty Ferry and representing the SNP, I will continue to be angry and I will use that anger.

I am so angry that a few weeks ago I had to sit in the House of Commons and listen to Ed Miliband stand up with all the audacity that he had and pretend that the information that he was using to make the decisions to sanction Israel was…

Politics is changing in Westminster.

We have a really great opportunity at the next General Election to be in a position where that negotiation can seriously start with the next iteration of the Westminster government.

That move alone would lift an estimated million children out of poverty overnight - that’s what a government and a party that is serious about ending child poverty looks like.

Andy Burnham must change tact and match the SNP’s ambition to tackle child poverty.

It makes a genuine difference to families in every single community across this nation.

Andy Burnham must follow Scotland’s lead by matching the SNP government’s cost-of-living support for young people – including in areas like free bus travel for under-22s, where many young people in Scotland are saving over £1000 a year…

Under the SNP, young people in Scotland are benefiting from the best cost-of-living support in the UK – and they are saving thousands of pounds compared to the extra costs the Labour Government is piling on to young people in England.

I think that provides a very unique opportunity for the SNP down in Westminster where we are likely going to return – I hope we certainly return – 40 plus MPs at the next General Election where in a hung parliament, that gives us a really…

I think there's a really strong chance that we have a hung parliament in Westminster.

I THINK you've got to be really realistic about what's going to happen in Westminster.

We need young women in politics. And I think that the ease and comfortability of directing so much hatred towards me can be pinpointed at the lack of accountability on social media as one example.

What I don't want is for other young women in my constituency, across Scotland, across the whole UK, to look at the experience that I've had and go, ‘well, I can't do that’, because that doesn't serve our national political conversation…

It is frustrating because I think lots of people would say that we need to have more diversity in politics and we need to be more accessible for the general public, and that has to include bringing people who come from different…

Westminster is lining up to pick the pockets of people who are already working hard for their pension – this Labour Party plan will force people to work even harder and even longer to enjoy the basic dignity of retirement.

These revelations mark a truly terrible start for Burnham and he hasn’t even begun. It is a case of Westminster déjà vu, a Labour party plot to save the UK Treasury £6 billion by punishing pensioners.

It is incompatible for you to continue to pretend that the UK Labour Government is complying with international law while you refuse to ban all settlement trade with Israel.

This is not a mere misstep of a state. This is the intentional and systematic destruction of an entire population by Israel.

Banning settlement trade with Israel is not an option; it is an obligation.