Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to make the next election a referendum on Scottish independence after the UK’s Supreme Court ruled against the SNP’s bid for a ballot in 2023. Scotland’s first minister Sturgeon said she respected the unanimous judgment but called it a “tough pill to swallow”. The Supreme Court ruled Sturgeon does not have […]
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Ian Blackford has told Scottish voters their homes, pensions and incomes “are not safe under Westminster” days before the Supreme Court decides if an independence referendum can go ahead. The SNP’s leader at Westminster slammed “the disastrous duo” of prime minister Liz Truss and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng for making “the worst first impression in the […]
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The Scottish government has condemned the UK government’s decision to launch a Supreme Court challenge against laws protecting children’s rights that were unanimously passed by Holyrood last month. The SNP leader and first minister of Scotland described the legal action against the children’s bill as “jaw-dropping”. Nicola Sturgeon’s tweet continued: “The UK Tory government is […]
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Boris Johnson has been told to keep his “grubby, populist hands” off the judiciary following reports he is speeding up plans to curb the power of the courts to “extract revenge” for a humiliating legal defeat last autumn. Johnson is seeking to set up a panel to define in law the powers of the judicial […]
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A senior judge has said Prime Minster Boris Johnson could be jailed for contempt of court – if he keeps his word. Sir John Laws has predicted a return to the Supreme Court and jail for the prime minister if refuses to seek a Brexit extension by the October 19 deadline stipulated in the Benn […]
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Boris Johnson faces a day of destiny on Tuesday after a court ruled his advice to the Queen to prorogue parliament was unlawful “because it had the purpose of stymying Parliament.” ‘Johnson lied to the Queen’ “In effect, the court held that Boris Johnson lied to the Queen,” said legal expert David Allen Green, while […]
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