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He needs to stop making excuses and come clean with the public.

I don't think it's the priority for voters right now – but I also just think that if, not when, if the issue of independence and another referendum were to re-emerge and it was obvious there was a demand for it, we wouldn’t be debating…

I don't support independence and I don't support another independence referendum.

For months, Reform UK and I have been highlighting what's been going on in the city centre of Glasgow yet the establishment have time and time again dismissed us and attacked me personally – so I'm glad to see the mainstream media finally…

Let's take the extraordinary skills and expertise created by the North Sea and put them to work building its successor.

New drilling will not reduce household energy bills.

Scotland must accelerate its transition to renewable energy and stop looking to new oil and gas extraction as the answer to our energy future.

The answer to that vulnerability cannot be to remain permanently dependent on the fossil fuels that expose us to precisely this instability.

More atmospheric carbon contributes to more warming, meaning more climate chaos.

I have watched, like everybody else, as the world has burned this summer.

Rosebank is a “test of whether we are serious about the climate commitments we have made”

Andy Burnham should listen to those economic sirens that are ringing louder by the day – and act to protect families ahead of this autumn and winter.

The UK Labour Government has endlessly boasted about confronting the big issues, but they have completely ignored the biggest issue on the horizon for families this autumn.

This spike in inflation will cause real worry that Brexit Britain is headed for another autumn of soaring fuel, energy and food prices.

One of the things that I think we misjudged in the May elections was assuming that because of the really poor governing outcomes that the SNP have had in recent years, that would have a dampening effect on their support and on their vote.

You have about 30% of the Scottish population who now see voting SNP as both a habit and an identity.

Scotland has given the world many great things, and the morning roll deserves its moment in the spotlight. It is time we celebrated this great Scottish institution properly and gave it the recognition it deserves.

The morning roll is part of Scotland’s story. It has been part of our breakfasts, our bakeries, our communities and our traditions for hundreds of years – and it has been around longer than France has had the baguette.