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The timing is uncomfortable for the SNP as it highlights one of its biggest broken promises in the middle of the general election campaign.
John Swinney backed Michael Matheson over a 27 day recommended suspension – on the day of the SNP general election campaign launch.
He was responding during a campaign stop in Nigg after John Swinney accused him of being ‘disrespectful’ over the timing.
He says ‘now is the moment for Britain to choose its future’ as opinion polls favour a Labour victory in the next 43 days of campaigning.
As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is meeting the cabinet amid mounting talk in Westminster that he is about to call an election.
He says ‘I can't think of anything in Britain that has really improved. I can't think of a single thing’ but ‘I'm hopeful of change’.
Asked if he would go as far as Humza Yousaf in putting pen to paper, the First Minister said ‘yes, of course’.
First Minister John Swinney says the loan of Scottish and UK public money ‘demonstrates the huge confidence in this new facility.’
Alex Salmond is set to give evidence to the A9 dualling inquiry at Holyrood tomorrow.
John Swinney has been crowned the new leader of the SNP after winning the support of potential contender, Highland MSP Kate Forbes.
In less than two years Scotland has had three Prime Ministers and will get its third First Minister – without a vote.
Kate Forbes says the SNP must ‘rewin trust’ but is change possible for a party after 17 years in power?
She says ‘the best way to deliver the urgent change Scotland needs is to join with John Swinney’.
Now Ms Forbes is set for her own announcement this afternoon about whether she will run for the top job.
17 turbines are being proposed around 10 kilometres north of Grantown
Malcolm MacLeod, Kate Lackie and Allan Gunn are made assistant chief executives at the local authority.
The Highland MSP says she is conscious of a ‘groundswell of support’ but she is still ‘weighing everything up’.
The plans are aimed at dealing with at least 12 school and spending millions more on much needed road repairs.
Far north MSP Maree Todd ‘saddened’ by events as Kate Forbes is described elsewhere as ‘the best person who can lead Scotland’.
The First Minister made frequent visits to the north to rebuild connections with the government after a period of inactivity.
