Alex Salmond’s upstart pro-independence Alba Party party could ruin Nicola Sturgeon’s chances of an outright SNP majority in the Scottish parliament election, a new poll suggests today. The Savanta ComRes poll for The Scotsman predicts the SNP will return 64 MSPs, one short of the 65 needed for a majority. The poll predicts the Alba … Read more
Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP rocked by MORE defections to Alex Salmond’s Alba party as councillors follow nationalist MPs quitting to join up with ex-First Minister ahead of May elections Two senior councillors have quit to line up alongside the former First Minister Defections come after two Westminster SNP MPs joined Alba at the weekend Salmond launched … Read more
SNP’s Kenny MacAskill becomes party’s first Westminster MP to defect to Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party Kenny MacAskill has represented East Lothian in the Commons since 2019 He insisted the switch would bolster, not derail, the independence movement Ex-SNP MP Corrie Wilson is also joining the former first minister in the election By Jack Elsom … Read more
Alex Salmond’s ‘harassment’ accuser says she has been ‘left to swim’ following inquiry and was ‘basically just dropped’ by Nicola Sturgeon’s team The woman said she was ‘basically just dropped’ by the Scottish government She said she and a fellow complainant were ‘left to swim’ after botched probe Nicola Sturgeon survived a no confidence vote by … Read more
Alex Salmond impersonated a zombie before sexually assaulting an SNP worker, a jury has been told. The alleged incident is said to have happened one evening at Bute House in Edinburgh in September 2014 – the month of the Scottish independence referendum. Salmond faces 14 charges of alleged offences against 10 women, all of which … Read more
Alex Salmond impersonated a zombie before sexually assaulting an SNP worker, a jury has been told. The alleged incident is said to have happened one evening at Bute House in Edinburgh in September 2014 – the month of the Scottish independence referendum. Salmond faces 14 charges of alleged offences against 10 women, all of which … Read more