Universal Credit unleashed ‘tsunami of misery’, says Scottish welfare charities
Universal Credit has driven hundreds of thousands of families into poverty and to foodbanks, Scottish welfare charities claim.
Brexit: UK ministers reject Scottish seafood industry pleas for export grace period
Fishing industry pleas for an export "grace period" have been rejected by Environment Secretary George Eustice.
‘I am not on magic mushrooms’: Douglas Ross answers the good, bad and bizarre in Facebook Q&A
Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross invited the public to grill him live on Facebook this evening and ended up answering a number of unexpected questions.
Goldfish? Boris Johnson tells fishing industry ‘El Dorado’ awaits
Boris Johnson has told the fishing industry that Brexit will deliver an "El Dorado" of riches, despite firms currently reporting multimillion-pound losses due to border delays.
Brexit: Scottish seafood firms offered £100k compensation for border delays
Scottish seafood firms will be able to claim up to £100,000 in compensation for sales lost due to the Brexit border chaos, the Treasury has confirmed.
Universal credit: Boris Johnson under pressure after Commons vote
Boris Johnson is under pressure to increase benefit payments, after MPs backed plans to make the £20-a-week uplift in universal credit permanent.
Brexit: Boris Johnson confirms £23m compensation fund for seafood exporters
Boris Johnson has announced a £23 million compensation scheme for the fishing industry, after Scottish seafood firms took their protest over Brexit border delays to the gates of Downing Street.
Budget: Scotch whisky bosses call on Rishi Sunak to slash alcohol taxes
Scotch whisky bosses are calling on Rishi Sunak to give the industry a boost and slash spirits duty in his March budget.
Would Scexit lead to a border at Berwick?
The relationship between the nations of these islands has ebbed and flowed for millennia, whether combatants or comrades, competitors or commercial partners, Britain has seen it all.
Oh my cod! When will the Brexit fishing gaffes end?
Scottish seafood exporters have been battered by post-Brexit border delays since January 1.
Brexit’s ‘paper fish’: PM’s vow to ‘compensate’ Scottish fishing firms in doubt
Boris Johnson's promise to "compensate" the Scottish seafood sector, which has been battered by border delays, has been thrown into doubt by the Environment Secretary.
Scotch whisky: Liz Truss contacts Joe Biden’s team for tariffs talks
Trade Secretary Liz Truss has requested an urgent meeting with the incoming US administration over ending Donald Trump's punitive trade tariffs, which have so far cost the Scotch whisky industry more than £450 million.
Boris Johnson tells SNP to outline ‘prospectus’ for independence
Boris Johnson has told the SNP to stop demanding a second referendum and instead outline what independence would mean for Scotland.
Brexit: Fisheries minister did not read deal as she was ‘very busy organising local Nativity trail’
Boris Johnson's "sea of opportunity" promise to fishermen has turned into a "nightmare", with hundreds of thousands of pounds of sales lost due to new red tape, the SNP's Westminster leader has said.
Covid: ‘People robbed of their chance to be vaccinated’
Scottish ministers have not requested the help of Army "quick reaction teams" to support the Covid vaccination effort, despite supply outstripping delivery north of the border.
Rishi Sunak urged to bail out seafood exporters hit by Brexit red-tape
Rishi Sunak has been urged to bail out struggling fish exporters who have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds in sales due to Brexit red tape.
Scottish independence ‘a clear and present danger’, says Theresa May
Theresa May says there is a "clear and present danger" of Britain's 300-year-old union dissolving.
Keir Starmer: Boris Johnson’s Covid indecision has cost lives and jobs
Boris Johnson "simply isn't up to the job", Keir Starmer shot as he claimed the prime minister's "serial incompetence" has cost lives and jobs.
SNP demand Boris Johnson ‘pays Brexit compensation to Scotland’
Boris Johnson has been told to "pay compensation to Scotland", as Brexit disruption begins to bite for Scottish firms.
Brexit: Whisky bosses fear new trading rules could block aged malt exports
High-end whisky exporters fear post-Brexit trading rules could lead to aged malts being blocked from sale on the continent.
Boris Johnson says ‘there would be no Covid vaccine’ in independent Scotland
Boris Johnson has taken a swipe at the SNP by claiming "there wouldn’t have been a single vaccine delivered" in an independent Scotland.
Covid: Boris Johnson tells Nicola Sturgeon to ‘support jobs in Scotland’ with UK cash
Boris Johnson has risked inflaming a constitutional row over Covid support cash by suggesting Nicola Sturgeon is delaying financial help for businesses.
Coronavirus restrictions could come back into force next winter
Coronavirus restrictions could return next winter, the UK's top medics warned as it emerged more than one million people now carry the virus.
Treasury gaffe sees £375m of ‘additional’ coronavirus support withdrawn
Rishi Sunak has been left red-faced after Treasury officials wrongly announced £375 million of "additional" coronavirus support cash for Scotland.
Boris Johnson orders England shutdown as medics warn NHS could be ‘overwhelmed’
Boris Johnson has ordered a third lockdown in England after medics warned the NHS could be "overwhelmed" in 21 days without action.
Brexit: Better future for fishing industry has been ‘squandered’
Fishing industry bosses have cried "betrayal" ahead of a mammoth House of Commons vote on the prime minister's Christmas Eve Brexit deal.
Brexit: Boris Johnson tells EU to ‘see sense’ over fisheries
Boris Johnson has called on the EU to "see sense" over fisheries, as the battle to break the Brexit deadlock continued in Brussels.
Brexit: Michael Gove talks of ‘staged approach’ to reallocating EU fishing quota
Michael Gove has put the chances of a Brexit deal at "less than 50%", after the European Parliament set a new hard deadline for talks to conclude.
No regrets: SNP’s Drew Hendry defends House of Commons mace stunt
SNP MP Drew Hendry has defended a House of Commons stunt that saw him suspended from the chamber for 24 hours.
Independence: Poll shows 58% of Scots back breakaway from UK
Scots are backing independence in record-breaking numbers, according to a new poll that shows support for a breakaway is now as high as 58%.