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1 week ago | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Conor Matchett |Chris Musson
HUMZA Yousaf moaned about Nicola Sturgeon taking a “hatchet” to his “awful” NHS turnaround plan, newly released WhatsApp texts reveal. The then-First Minister told her Health Secretary she was “furious” about the document — just days before she praised it in public. The plan, meant to spark the service’s pandemic recovery, was later described by critics as a “flimsy pamphlet” while experts hit out over its “worrying gaps”.
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1 month ago | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Conor Matchett |Chris Musson
KEMI Badenoch lacks a “work ethic” and needs to put more graft into the job of Tory leader, Ruth Davidson warned today. The former Scottish Tory leader also said she did not believe the leader of the opposition would last until the next UK General Election in 2029 and was not doing enough to keep Nigel Farage off the airwaves.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Conor Matchett |Chris Musson
PLANS to include under-18s in controversial assisted dying laws could be scrapped. The change is understood to be on the table in a bid to win round sceptics like John Swinney. The First Minister was said to be “wrestling” with Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur’s proposals to give euthanasia rights to terminally-ill Scots aged 16 and 17.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Conor Matchett |Chris Musson
DISGRACED top doctor Catherine Calderwood boasted she would try to “ride out” the storm over her infamous lockdown breach in a chummy WhatsApp chat with UK colleagues, we can reveal today. The former chief medical officer was caught illegally visiting her holiday pad in Earlsferry, Fife, twice in 2020 while fronting Covid ads telling Scots to stay at home. Maggie Waterton, whose mum and husband died in the pandemic, called it “another betrayal of trust”.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Conor Matchett |Chris Musson
Union leaders have revealed the figure they are looking for to put an end to strikesCOUNCIL chiefs will today make a fresh offer to unions in a last-ditch bid to avert bin strikes across Scotland - with the lowest-paid workers set for the biggest boost. Nats ministers said yesterday more cash had been found as part of the desperate effort to see off the walk-3outs - set to take place between August 14 and 22.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Conor Matchett |Chris Musson
THE SNP have bungled their manifesto plans and accidentally baked in spending cuts or income tax rises, it emerged today. John Swinney was left with egg on his face after the Institute for Fiscal Studies said botched sums at the heart of the Nats’ policy offer would “probably” see “cuts to some unprotected services unless income tax was further raised in Scotland”.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Conor Matchett |Chris Musson
SCANDAL-hit Health Secretary Michael Matheson has finally quit over his iPad expenses shame. The under-fire SNP minister resigned today amid a probe into taxpayers being charged £11,000 for his holiday roaming charges bill after he gave false assurances to parly bosses. It is claimed the Nats minister did not want to become a distraction to the government's ongoing work, as he faced a potentially damning probe into his use of a parliamentary iPad while on holiday in Morocco.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Chris Musson
Mr Ross urged the Crown Office and Prosecution Service to be “transparent” on their response to the issues with HorizonTOP prosecutors past and present must come to Holyrood to explain why innocent Post Office branch bosses had their lives ruined, the SNP Government was told today. Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross said former Lord Advocates James Wolffe and Lord Frank Mulholland plus current law supremo Dorothy Bain KC should “face scrutiny” over the Horizon scandal.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Chris Musson
HOLYROOD chiefs drew up rules that saw ministers’ Whats- Apps wiped every month during the pandemic — claiming it would be too tricky to keep them. The Scottish Sun on Sunday has found that officials, including the country’s most senior civil servant Leslie Evans, changed draft guidance in 2021 which demanded the storage of entire conversations. The adapted policy led to the deletion of potential evidence for the ongoing Covid public inquiries.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
thescottishsun.co.uk | Conor Matchett Chris Musson |Chris Musson
LatestThe First Minister faced questions after his Education Secretary sought to 'spin away' results showing a fall in performanceHUMZA Yousaf's SNP were today accused of "destroying" Scotland's once-proud schools system as the First Minister admitted to a “poor set of results” in a major international assessment. The SNP leader was grilled on falling education standards at a heated session of FMQs in Holyrood.
