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Operation Branchform is a Police Scotland investigation into possible fundraising fraud in the Scottish National Party (SNP) that was launched in 2021 and is ongoing as of January 2025. [1] The investigation concerns allegations that £666,953 raised by the SNP since 2017 specifically to campaign for independence in a proposed second Scottish ...
Discussing the Budget, particularly the decision to begin work on mitigating the two-child benefit cap in Scotland, Mr Swinney said: “The SNP is back on the front foot, that’s where the SNP is.
Investigation dates back to 2021 claims ‘ring-fenced’ indyref2 campaign money used for other things
The Scottish Conservatives accused the SNP of having "failed Scotland by making people pay more while getting less". Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, Alex Cole-Hamilton, said the SNP "would have ...
The Scottish National Party (SNP; Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba [ˈpʰaːrˠtʰi ˈn̪ˠaːʃən̪ˠt̪ə nə ˈhal̪ˠapə]) is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic party. The party holds 62 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, and holds 9 out of the 57 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It has 453 local ...
In April 2024, Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), faced a confidence challenge following his termination of the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, which meant that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, co-leaders of the Greens and their only government ministers, were removed from government. [2]
Following a referendum held on Scottish independence in 2014 which saw 44.7% of voters in Scotland vote for Scotland to become an independent state and 55.3% vote for Scotland to remain a part of the United Kingdom, the SNP won 56 of the 59 UK Parliamentary seats in Scotland at the 2015 UK general election, campaigning on a manifesto focusing on bringing greater devolved powers to Scotland ...
Labour health spokeswoman Dame Jackie Baillie said the proposals are ‘rank hypocrisy’ amid increasing waiting times in Scotland’s NHS. Flynn: SNP will bring forward Bill protecting NHS from ...