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There is no excuse for violence, criminal damage or attacks on Police Scotland officers.

Yesterday’s scenes in Glasgow by a small minority on both sides were absolutely unacceptable.

Extremist Ross Greer and his fellow Green MSPs should be ashamed of using such disgraceful language.

What is needed is a proper debate about whether it should exist at all. Anything less is simply protecting a broken system.

The SNP’s position is clear: the House of Lords should be abolished. If there is to be a second chamber in the future, it must have democratic legitimacy and be accountable to the people.

Once again Westminster is tinkering around the edges of a fundamentally broken system. The House of Lords is an absurdly bloated, unelected chamber that has no place in a modern democracy.

I am as concerned about the cost of business as I am the cost of living. I am really concerned that where we make government policy and government decisions, these can help raise the levels of investment, innovation and profit in British…

You will see this as a determined drive that you have not seen before from a British government. Buying British not 'if possible', but by design. So every procurement pound supports British jobs, British apprenticeships and British skills.

I think you'll see him this week spelling out why and how he intends to grip this issue, and why it means so much to him in a way that I think will resonate with so many people across the country.

It's why Andy Burnham's leadership matters, because I have no doubt that he will prioritise this issue.

But my frustration was, and I said this immediately after leaving the government, my frustration was I couldn't get social care higher enough on the government's overall agenda.

Next week, what you will see is a Prime Minister that runs towards big and difficult issues rather than runs away from them.

If I didn't have confidence that this Prime Minister and this Chancellor would be investing in our defence sufficiently to protect our country, to protect our allies, and to meet our international commitments, then no, I wouldn't have…

This is the first I have heard of it – if true why are the Met police briefing the BBC before contacting interested parties?

He is a man of his word and he has made it clear that he will deliver on the commitments that led him to leave government in the first place.

Russia posed a threat to UK security

Securing safe shipping routes through the area was important because of the impact the crisis is having on energy prices and the cost of living

We have not joined and will not join offensive US military action in Iran