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Alba

March 2025

  • Reeves press conference.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reeves says poverty figures from spring statement cuts don’t take into account impact of getting people into work – as it happened

    More than 3 million families will lose out as a result of sweeping cuts to welfare, official analysis shows

October 2024

  • Mourners in funeral cortege following pipers

    Mourners say goodbye to ‘political giant’ Alex Salmond at his funeral

  • The employment rights bill will ‘strengthen working conditions for the lowest paid and most vulnerable’ says government analysis.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Employment rights bill will cost firms £5bn per year but benefits will justify costs, government says – as it happened

  • Alex Salmond and Sir Tom Hunter smiling

    Sir Tom Hunter confirms he paid for Alex Salmond’s body to be flown home

  • Cabinet Office minister Ellie Reeves at the Labour party conference in September.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ministers will have to comply with tougher rules on declaring gifts, MPs told – as it happened

  • Alex Salmond obituary

  • Alex Salmond normalised concept of Scottish independence as he led SNP to power

  • Tributes paid to Alex Salmond’s ‘colossal contribution’ to Scottish and UK politics

  • Alex Salmond’s political star had long faded. Yet his death has sent shock waves through Scotland

    Lesley Riddoch

  • Alex Salmond, former first minister of Scotland, dies aged 69

July 2024

  • Sarwar and Starmer clapping

    Parties keen to capitalise on SNP woes in Scotland, but for different reasons

    SNP fears resurgent Labour, while Starmer seeks credibility and Lib Dems eye status of third biggest party in Commons

June 2024

  • Kemi Badenoch David Tennant

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    David Tennant should have been more respectful when criticising Badenoch over LGBT views, says Starmer – as it happened

    ‘I think it’s right that we have these robust discussions, but we must do it respectfully,’ Starmer said

April 2024

  • Humza Yousaf with hand on his head

    Humza Yousaf inherited a deeply fractured SNP – as will his successor

  • Humza Yousaf and his wife Nadia El-Nakla depart Bute House following his resignation as first minister on 29 April 2024 in Edinburgh.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Humza Yousaf quits as Scotland’s first minister – as it happened

  • Yousaf

    SNP split from Greens boosts Keir Starmer’s election chances, say Labour insiders

  • Humza Yousaf

    Beleaguered Humza Yousaf says he does not rule out Scottish election

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Humza Yousaf says he’s ‘very confident’ of winning no confidence vote and he will ‘compromise’ with critics – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Ex-Post Office executive says she does not recall email telling her Horizon terminals could be remotely accessed – as it happened

November 2023

  • Covid inquiry: Matt Hancock

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Matt Hancock ‘was not told about eat out to help out scheme until day it was announced’ – as it happened

    Health secretary at start of pandemic tells Covid inquiry he was not included in conversations about Rishi Sunak’s scheme

October 2023

  • Ash Regan

    Scotland’s Alba party has its first MSP after Ash Regan jumps ship

    Former SNP leadership candidate welcomed into party by founder Alex Salmond at conference in Glasgow
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