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Ashley Fox
@ashleyfox· Conservative Party· Aug 14, 2026

Labour’s record farm closures and this year’s extreme heat are pushing British farming to the brink.

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Yvette Cooper
@yvettecooper· Labour Party· Aug 14, 2026

The Prime Minister’s drive to reform social care has largely come from Andy because it’s something he’s been passionate about.

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Yvette Cooper
@yvettecooper· Labour Party· Aug 14, 2026

Starmer had a style of leading the Government that maybe doesn’t necessarily work in politics.

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Kirsty Blackman
@kirstyblackman· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

If Andy Burnham really wants to make Manchester the north of the UK, fair enough. He can make that happen by respecting Scottish democracy, giving us the right to decide our own future, and Scotland will become an independent nation which…

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Kirsty Blackman
@kirstyblackman· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

The only people guaranteed to always serve Scotland's interests are the Scottish people themselves, as part of an independent nation like any other.

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Kirsty Blackman
@kirstyblackman· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

No wonder then that the Scottish people don't trust him to serve our interests when his arrogant disrespect for Scottish democracy appears exactly the same as every Westminster Prime Minister in the last decade.

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John Swinney
@johnswinney· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

I welcome the fact that the hotel continues to trade and it is my hope that a sustainable way forward can be found that protects jobs and secures the long-term future of the hotel.

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John Swinney
@johnswinney· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

I am very concerned to hear that the owners of the Salutation Hotel have entered administration.

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Bridget Phillipson
@bridgetphillipson· Labour Party· Aug 14, 2026

It’s time to stop the excuses and desperate distractions and finally come clean with the public. If Farage has nothing to hide, he surely would have done so by now.

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Bridget Phillipson
@bridgetphillipson· Labour Party· Aug 14, 2026

Farage may succeed in his run-off against a bin, but he can’t run from the truth forever.

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Bridget Phillipson
@bridgetphillipson· Labour Party· Aug 14, 2026

Nigel Farage spent 38 days fighting a bin in his most desperate attempt yet to deflect attention from the sleaze and scandals engulfing him and his party.

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Emma Roddick
@emmaroddick· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

The fact is when it comes to Scottish and English industry, the UK Labour Government applies very different treatment and it is destroying confidence in Scotland’s industrial future.

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Emma Roddick
@emmaroddick· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

By starving Scotland of the UK’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, you are waging a two-pronged attack on Scotland’s energy sector with your tax on Scotland’s energy destroying 1000 jobs a month and investment in our oil and gas industry…

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Emma Roddick
@emmaroddick· Scottish National Party· Aug 14, 2026

The decision by the UK Labour Government to deny such significant investment in renewables supply chain jobs in the Highlands has been a disaster for Scotland’s energy sector.

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Anas Sarwar
@anassarwar· Scottish Labour· Aug 14, 2026

The distraction needs to end, and the leadership in Downing Street needs to change.

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Bridget Phillipson
@bridgetphillipson· Labour Party· Aug 14, 2026

This is a really troubling situation that we're seeing, both the extremes of heat that we're increasingly seeing in the summer, but also the extremes of cold that we're seeing in the winter.

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