Libby Brooks
Scotland Correspondent at The Guardian
Guardian Scotland correspondent, more often on @libbybrooks.bsky.social ; founder member @WIJ_Scotland; author of The Story of Childhood; gingerbread enthusiast
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Andrew Sparrow |Peter Walker |Libby Brooks |Helena Horton
MPs to debate proposals to decriminalise abortionIn the Commons MPs are now voting on an amendment to the crime and policing bill. They have just finished the first part of today’s report stage debate, and when the voting is finished they will start the second stage of the debate, dealing with amendments relating to abortion. This will run until 7pm when the vote, or votes, will take place. Here is Hannah Al-Othman’s preview story.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Libby Brooks |Bethan Mckernan
Rachel Reeves has been accused of shortchanging the UK’s devolved nations after leaving the Welsh, Scottish and northern Irish governments with multimillion-pound funding gaps. The chancellor said the Treasury would fully cover the 1.2% rise in national insurance contributions for employers on salaries above £5,000, which came in on 6 April.
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theguardian.com | Libby Brooks
For Women Scotland, the group responsible for April’s landmark supreme court ruling on biological sex, is considering further legal action against the Scottish government as they warned the key motivation for bringing the case was being lost amid debates about toilets policy.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Yerushalmy |Tom Bryant |Vicky Graham |Amy Sedghi |Hayden Vernon |Maya Yang | +9 more
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAccording to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the UN security council emergency meeting on Friday over Israel’s strikes on Iran will take place at 7pm GMT (8pm in the UK, which is currently on BST). The newly appointed commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Mohammad Pakpour, threatened to open “the gates of hell” in retaliation for Israel’s attacks that killed his predecessor Hossein Salami.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Libby Brooks
SNP activists and senior figures have vented their frustrations at their leader, John Swinney, after a “disastrous” byelection campaign that saw the party lose a pivotal Holyrood seat to Scottish Labour. The party was also accused of running a “panicked” campaign that some believe pushed more voters towards Reform in last Thursday’s Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse byelection.
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Anas Sarwar challenges Nigel Farage to debate in Hamilton amid 'sectarianism' row - politics live https://t.co/il3M5TcThJ
"We had to put one child out of a group for doing a Nazi salute" ...how anti-immigrant rhetoric is impacting voters in Holyrood's crunch Hamilton byelection https://t.co/J0I2pSIDSo
RT @LukeTryl: In @guardian @libby_brooks covers our focus group in Hamilton, Larkhall & Stonehouse ahead of the by election. What jumped ou…
