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Mairi McAllan
@mairimcallan· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

It is both a legal obligation and absolutely evident to anyone who's living in England just now – with their scorched, scorched parks and their agriculture suffering – how vital that is.

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Mairi McAllan
@mairimcallan· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

National security concerns have to be thrashed out, understood fulsomely, but we were never informed as to the case that led to it being rejected, and we need to see that.

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Mairi McAllan
@mairimcallan· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

I think I’m not alone in feeling that I should far rather have that money invested into education than in managing highly addictive tech.

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Mairi McAllan
@mairimcallan· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

I’ve already been clear that I don’t, for example, support a nationwide rollout of the pouches that we have seen because they are expensive.

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Mairi McAllan
@mairimcallan· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

I don’t want there to be too many exceptions so as not to undermine the underlying principle.

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Mairi McAllan
@mairimcallan· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

The consultation begins today and it is based on the Government’s intention to legislate, to pass laws, to take a national position of ending personal mobile phones in the learning environment.

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Stephen Flynn
@stephenflynn· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

We want Scotland to become a world-leader in sustainable tourism, and this is exactly the type of project that will help to make that vision a reality.

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Karen Adam
@karenadam· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

It’s high time that the Labour Party wakes up to this reality and gives Scotland the right to decide its own future.

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Karen Adam
@karenadam· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

This patronising guff shows exactly how Westminster treats Scotland, expecting us to be grateful for what we are entitled to.

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Susan Murray
@susanmurray· Liberal Democrats· Aug 26, 2026

This idea is a cruel gimmick aimed at victimising the poorest for Britain’s failure to build the social homes we need.

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Thomas Kerr
@thomaskerr· Reform UK· Aug 26, 2026

The attitude that Reform is ‘dividing communities’ because it wants local people to benefit local areas by staying in local housing is ludicrous.

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Thomas Kerr
@thomaskerr· Reform UK· Aug 26, 2026

Reform in Scotland will be looking closely at this policy and how aspects of it might be relevant to Scottish housing.

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Alex Sobel
@alexsobel· Labour Party· Aug 26, 2026

I am deeply concerned tech companies may be using their huge buying power to water down much-needed regulation by hiring those who have served at the highest level of previous governments.

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Stephen Flynn
@stephenflynn· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

That’s why I am bringing the entire sector together – passengers, operators and transport authorities alike – to see how new legislation can help deliver on those shared aims.

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Stephen Flynn
@stephenflynn· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

This is just the start of our ambitious plans for the sector – we want all journeys to be more affordable and for bus services in every community across Scotland to be better.

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Stephen Flynn
@stephenflynn· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

This investment will help local authorities deliver the bus priority measures, passenger facilities and wider improvements they believe are needed to make their local bus services more reliable.

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Stephen Flynn
@stephenflynn· Scottish National Party· Aug 26, 2026

The public rightly want and expect their buses to run on time, which is why the Scottish Government is investing £55m in the infrastructure to help make that happen.

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Friedrich Merz
@friedrichmerz· Christian Democratic Union· Aug 26, 2026

The rule for our defence now has to be ‘whatever it takes’

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