Tessa Jowell MP

Labour press release Margaret Curran MP, Labour’s Shadow Scottish Secretary, responding to the SNP’s economic case for independence, said: “In the face of some of the greatest economic challenges of our time, the SNP’s case for indepen... Continue to article

SNP press release The SNP has reiterated its commitment to free access to Higher Education as it has been revealed today that elite universities south of the border are privately urging UK ministers to cut funding to support students fro... Continue to article

Better Together press release - Salmond tells Today Programme that the ‘for more than a decade the SNP have put forward the idea of sharing Sterling.” The nationalist credibility on currency has taken a further knock as Alex Salmond at... Continue to article

SNP MSP Bob Doris has welcomed statistics showing the amount of alcohol sold in Scotland has fallen by 2.6 per cent in the year since the ban on multi-buy deals was introduced in 2011. Mr Doris, deputy convener of the Scottish Parliament... Continue to article

The nationalists cannot keep their currency plans secret, Better Together Campaign Director Blair McDougall said today. His comments come as Nicola Sturgeon once again refused to say what currency Scotland would use if a Eurozone-style cu... Continue to article

The No campaign failed a key test last night as Michael Moore lost a series of key arguments in a debate commentators have declared a “comfortable points victory” for Nicola Sturgeon. · He failed to explain why 50,000 children in Scotlan... Continue to article

SNP press release European Commission queries video games assistance Politicians call for concerted action to save jobs The European Commission has (today, Tuesday) launched an investigation into the UK’s proposed help for the vide... Continue to article

SNP press release MSP welcomes ashes national commission A Glasgow MSP has this afternoon welcomed the announcement from the Scottish Government of its intention to establish a National Commission to ensure clear and consistent advi... Continue to article

Scottish Affairs Committee press release The major construction firms that established and funded a systematic blacklist of construction industry workers appear to be continuing to avoid taking full responsibility for their actions, says ... Continue to article

Speaking in today’s Finance Bill debate at Westminster which enacts the measures of Chancellor George Osborne’s budget Stewart Hosie MP, SNP Treasury spokesman said: “This Finance Bill follows hot on the heels of a miserable budget, and ... Continue to article

SNP press release SENIOR LABOUR MP SAYS DARLING MUST RETURN IAN TAYLOR DONATION “TARNISHED” NO CAMPAIGN MUST GIVE BACK THE CASH Labour MP and member of the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee John Mann has now called on Alist... Continue to article

Better Together press release Reacting to the poll in today's Press and Journal which shows an increase in support for Scotland remaining in the UK, Better Together Director Richard Baker said: "This is yet another encouraging poll. I... Continue to article

SNP press release Johann Lamont has suffered a severe blow to her authority after Labour MPs criticised her plans for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament. Today’s *Scotland on Sunday *quotes several Labour MPs anon... Continue to article

SNP press release Labour former First Minister Henry McLeish has now voiced his concerns about the £500,000 donation from Ian Taylor, on a day when there is a series of new broadsheet newspaper revelations about the activities of Vitol, ... Continue to article

SNP press release Wednesday 10th April SIMPLE QUESTION FOR ANTI-INDEPENDENCE PARTIES – WHY *CAN’T *PENSIONS AND WELFARE BE RUN IN SCOTLAND? ANALYSIS FINDS PENSION COSTS MORE AFFORDABLE IN AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND It is time for the ... Continue to article

Blair McDougall, Campaign Director said: “Yes Scotland claim a broad base of support, but these figures make it clear that the overwhelming majority of their funds have come from the SNP and SNP donors. They have been completely unable ... Continue to article

Welcoming the announcement today (Wednesday) that KPMG is to create 150 new jobs in Glasgow at a new ‘tax centre of excellence’ in Glasgow’s International Services Financial District, Glasgow Kelvin MSP Sandra White described it as a hug... Continue to article

The Scottish National Party has today called on the No campaign to hand back the donation of £500,000 from president and chief executive of Vitol Ian Taylor, pending full answers to serious questions surrounding how much they knew about ... Continue to article

SNP press release The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has today (Wednesday) published its report into the implications for the UK of Scottish independence. Commenting on the report’s publication Stewart Hosie MP, SNP Treasury sp... Continue to article

Margaret Curran MP today gave a speech in Edinburgh in which she argued that "Britain has worked for Scotland" and that a Labour Government after 2015 offers a different vision from both the Tory-led UK Government and Alex Salmond's Scottis... Continue to article

Welsh Government press release Developing fairer taxes to support the Welsh economy will be top of the agenda today when Wales' Finance Minister, Jane Hutt, meets Scotland's Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growt... Continue to article

SNP press release The SNP is calling on opposition parties to ditch their opposition reforms to post-16 education which will strengthen and improve existing provision. The post-16 Education (Scotland) Bill will; Put requirements to wi... Continue to article

SNP Press Release WINSOR REVIEW SEES OFFICERS IN ENGLAND VOTE FOR RIGHT TO STRIKE AS SCOTLAND CONTINUES TO EXCEED POLICE NUMBER TARGET The number of police officers on Scotland's streets continues to exceed the target set in 2007 - at ... Continue to article

SNP press release MOD u-turn another blow to No campaign as Scotland loses out In a delayed announcement , now scheduled for today (Tuesday) Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is set to u-turn on commitments given just two years ago and... Continue to article

SNP press release A major speech by an EU Commissioner has praised the critical role that Scotland plays in Europe’s energy sector, underlining the importance of Scotland to the rest of the EU. In a speech in Edinburgh, EU Energy Comm... Continue to article

On the anniversary of the 1979 devolution referendum, the SNP has said the anti-independence parties are using similar scare stories now to peddle fiction, just like they did then, to stop Scotland making progress. More than three decade... Continue to article

SNP press release Chaos threatened to engulf the No Campaign today as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office became the latest arm of the Westminster Government to admit its own anti-independence case was based on false assertions. Anti-inde... Continue to article

Michael Moore press release The Scottish Government’s plans to double the number of regulators for Scottish businesses in an independent Scotland would ‘double the red tape burden, Scottish Secretary Michael Moore said today. Mr Moore s... Continue to article

The Secretary of State for Scotland (Michael Moore) Following discussions with interested parties in Scotland, the Department for Transport and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, in June 2012 I confirmed that the Government would estab... Continue to article

SNP press release Reports that the Treasury had been set to release an anti-independence paper based on the UK’s lost triple-A credit rating show that the No campaign has been left in tatters as another of their assertions has crumbled. ... Continue to article