Hannah Rodger

United Kingdom

Political Editor at Sunday Mail

Political Editor at the Sunday Mail. DMs open. [email protected]

Articles

Fears over Scottish Labour using 'rigged' voting system involved in Met fraud probe

1 week ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Members have already raised concerns about the online voting system being used by the party, which is part of a Met police fraud probe in England.
Graeme Souness plea to SNP over £350m job-boosting scheme

1 week ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The project is set to go before North Lanarkshire Council next month but SNP councillors are understood to be planning to reject it. Rangers legend Graeme Souness has warned the SNP not to scupper his plans for A £350m development because he supports a Labour by-election candidate. Souness’s firm Orchard Brae has proposed a massive development near Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire that could bring hundreds of homes and thousands of jobs to the area.
Holyrood hopeful vows to save Hamilton Accies if elected

1 week ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

Davy Russell said the club must remain in the community and wants to take action to save it. A Holyrood hopeful has pledged to save beleaguered Hamilton Accies if he gets elected. Davy Russell, who is hoping to be the next Labour MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, has written to Scottish football chiefs about the club’s plans to leave the area where it has been based since 1874.
Disabled MSP 'regularly' told by strangers they'd rather be dead than live like her

2 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Pam Duncan-Glancy spoke about her experiences after MSPs voted in favour of Assisted Dying legislation. MSPs took a step closer to legalising assisted death in Scotland last week as a vote passed its first stage in Holyrood. For some campaigners the win has been hailed as a huge victory and the first step toward making the proposals a reality.
Reform chief rules out IndyRef and claims party will be second biggest in Scotland

2 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tice said his party want voters to give them a chance in Scotland after England success. Reform UK chief Richard Tice has ruled out Scotland having another referendum and said his party will be the second largest in Holyrood. On the campaign trail in Hamilton yesterday the MP said the Scottish Parliament elections next year would be a “two horse race” and insisted Reform would be “great” for Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon: Keir Starmer dumb for 'Enoch Powell' dogwhistle speech

2 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

The former First Minister said Starmer's comments were 'shameful'. Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Keir Starmer should be ashamed for his speech on anti-immigration and claimed he was playing "dumb politics". The MSP was in Hamilton yesterday campaigning with the SNP ’s candidate Katy Loudon, where she railed against Reform and said the party was a “real danger” to society.
Brother of Scot detained in India 'let down' by UK Government over trade deal

3 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

Jagtar Singh Johal's brother met with David Lammy last week but said he was disappointed. THE BROTHER of a Scottish man detained in India has blasted the UK Government for failing to make his release a condition of a new trade deal. Dumbarton man Jagtar Singh Johal, known as Jaggi, has been locked up in India for more than seven years awaiting judgment on nine almost identical cases. Since then his brother Gurpreet has been leading the campaign for his release and insists he is innocent.
Nicola Sturgeon and MSPs lobbied minister over rent cap removal

3 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

The former FM was among several SNP politicians who expressed concern over the policy. Nicola Sturgeon lobbied the Scottish Government against its controversial decision to remove rent control protections for hundreds of thousands of tenants. Documents obtained by the Sunday Mail show the former First Minister was among five senior party figures who wrote to housing minister Paul McLennan about their concerns months before the cap on bill increases was abolished.
Top cops face whitewash claims over police dog death probe

3 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger

The force previously asked an inspector who authorised the young dog's euthanasia to review the case. Police chiefs are being urged to allow an external body to review the death of a young dog after previously giving the task to the officer who permitted her to be put down. Two and a half year old German Shepherd PD Zara was euthanised in December 2024 after being hit by a car while on a walk with her handler near Inverness.
Humza Yousaf: Long-term peace deal needed over India and Pakistan tensions

3 weeks ago | dailyrecord.co.uk | Hannah Rodger |Humza Yousaf

Scotland’s former First Minister Humza Yousaf, who has family from both India and Pakistan, said the de-escalation was welcome but a long-term strategy to ensure peace was needed. AS conflicts rage in Gaza and Ukraine a new battlefront has emerged in South Asia. India and Pakistan, both nuclear armed countries, looked to be on the brink of war last week with India launching ‘Operation Sindoor’ on Wednesday.