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Use of domestically-produced oil and gas would reduce the need for carbon-intensive imports, the MSP added, while also creating 'billions of pounds in tax revenue', which should be 'ring-fenced' and sent to Scotland to boost the renewables…

Instead, I think we should be increasing use of our own domestic resources right here in the North Sea.

While we still need oil and gas, we should be decreasing our reliance on countries in the Middle East and from friends of Vladimir Putin.

Right now, Westminster is throwing North Sea workers on the scrapheap and Jackdaw and Rosebank would not only create thousands of Scottish jobs, it would be a massive boost to businesses and local economies the length and breadth of…

I believe in three key things – supporting Scottish jobs, strengthening our country’s energy security and building the renewables industry that we are going to need in the future.

We all want a country where everyone, no matter their background, feels they are respected for who they are.

Today marks a significant moment for children with allergies and their families across the country - with Benedict’s Law making sure that every school has the training, plans and equipment needed to keep every child safe.

Keir Starmer stepped in to stop FIFA from bringing forward kick-off at the Estadio Azteca, over fears the alteration could hand World Cup co-hosts Mexico an unfair edge over England.

I think it is important that as a country we face up to the horrors of the past but also, more importantly, that we make sure it never happens again.

Nigel Farage has spent his whole life dodging responsibility for his actions. This new stunt is his latest attempt to escape consequences for his biggest grift. We won’t let him.

He’s obviously trying to distract from the huge troubles that he is currently in around not declaring a whole range of donations and associations.

Politics should be about improving the lives of millions of people, not about personal gain, not about hiding dodgy donations, and I think the public will see this for exactly what it is.

He is up to his neck in sleaze.

This is a desperate stunt from Nigel Farage.

When the law produces an outcome which is so wrong, it must be changed.

It's important to Nato, it's important to Britain that we...demonstrate the sort of leadership that's required from within the European Nato as the US starts to scale back its contribution.

The Treasury still often sees defence as a drain on public spending and not the driver of economic growth that we've demonstrated in two years.

The Treasury's a paradox: you have some of the very best and brightest officials in the Treasury, but you have, too often, a Treasury orthodoxy that's a dead hand on dynamic government.