Rachel Amery
Correspondent at The Scotsman
Political correspondent at @TheScotsman and @scotonsunday Get in touch at [email protected] Views are my own
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2 days ago |
scotsman.com | Rachel Amery
The Scotsman takes a look at some of the seats to keep an eye on in the 2026 Scottish Parliament election. It is now less than a year to go until the 2026 Scottish Parliament election - and the starting gun has been well and truly fired. The leaders of the main political parties have spent the past week already setting out their stalls and their pitches to woo voters over the next 12 months.
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2 days ago |
scotsman.com | Rachel Amery
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says all areas of immigration will be tightened up. Sir Keir Starmer says his government will “finally take back control of our borders”, as he unveiled stricter immigration regulations. The Prime Minister has unveiled his white paper to overhaul the “broken” immigration. He said without controls “we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together”.
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2 days ago |
scotsman.com | Rachel Amery
The number of women getting cervical smear tests has plummeted over the past three years, figures have revealed, as the Scottish Government was urged to “do better”. Last year at least 121,981 tests were carried out across Scotland. But this number has fallen sharply from the 189,283 tests conducted in 2023 and the 223,276 tests in 2022. A number of health boards saw their numbers almost halve during this time, including NHS Grampian, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Lothian and NHS Tayside.
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3 days ago |
scotsman.com | Rachel Amery
The Prime Minister and the Scottish secretary have both challenged the Scottish Government to get the two Lanarkshire mills back up and running. The SNP has branded UK Labour’s call for the Scottish Government to reopen two mothballed steel mills “insulting”. Both Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Secretary Ian Murray have publicly shamed the SNP Government for allowing Scotland’s last remaining steel mills to lie empty.
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3 days ago |
scotsman.com | Rachel Amery
The First Minister says his party will argue that ‘Westminster doesn’t work for Scotland’ in the Holyrood election campaign. John Swinney says independence will be “central” to the SNP’s 2026 election campaign. Since Mr Swinney became First Minister a year ago, independence has dropped down the list of the Scottish Government’s priorities in favour of improving the NHS and tackling child poverty. In 2026, the Bationalists are hoping to cling on to power and remain the largest party in Holyrood.
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