54 h. ago John Swinney says 'lessons must be learnt' after Covid inquiry finds failures cost lives

The findings are contained in the latest inquiry report by Baroness Hallett into the devastating pandemic that began in 2020 and led to a series of lockdowns.

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56 h. ago Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney 'sidelined' SNP Cabinet in closing schools during covid

School closures were among the most controversial decisions during the pandemic.

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56 h. ago Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson criticised over 'poor' covid relationship

Baroness Hallett said the antipathy between the duo made emergency body COBR less effective.

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3 d. ago John Swinney backs Steve Clarke for knighthood after Scotland World Cup qualification

The First Minister said it would “be a lovely idea” for the Scotland manager to be honoured for taking the men’s football team to next year’s World Cup.

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3 d. ago Prince Harry torn down in 6 brutal words as expert slams Meghan Markle 'mistakes'

A royal commentator has criticised the Duke and Duchess of Sussex for a string of poor business decisions since they left the Firm and relocated to California in 2020

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3 d. ago John Swinney backs calls for Steve Clarke to receive knighthood after leading Scotland to World Cup

The First Minister told an audience in London he would consider calls for a bank holiday to mark Scotland's return to the world's biggest sporting event.

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3 d. ago The parties inside Britain's biggest asylum seeker centre: Migrants dance with the help of disco equipment in new video

In the shocking footage a group of men can be seen dancing and singing around in a recreation area at former RAF Wethersfield in Essex.

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3 d. ago Grinning Iraqi dinghy asylum seeker gives female victim, 20, a thumbs

In the footage, taken from inside Crawley Train Station on September 22 this year, Hawre Mohamed and can be seen talking to the victim and gesturing at her before he barges through the ticket barriers.

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker jailed AGAIN after he just carried on crimes following prison release

Sarwar Mohammed has been locked up again

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3 d. ago Asylum seeker jailed for drug dealing just carried on after release from prison

Sarwar Mohammed has been locked up again

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4 d. ago Swinney warns Starmer and Reeves of ‘risks’ if Budget fails to end austerity

Scottish First Minister John Swinney said the ending of austerity was what people are ‘desperately seeking’.

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4 d. ago How John Swinney is wasting even more taxpayers' money on gender wars with For Women Scotland

The sorry saga over gender is a reminder that the SNP government’s priorities are all wrong

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4 d. ago Calls for public inquiry into 'catastrophic failure in border security' which allowed a failed asylum seeker to murder an innocent restaurant owner

Somalian national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, plunged a knife into the chest of Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37, four months after his asylum application was rejected.

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4 d. ago Bibby Stockholm asylum seeker 'assaulted two female police officers' in Bournemouth, court told

Kenson Noel is accused of assaulting PC Sinead Sheath and PC Madeline Duncanson in Bournemouth on October 27.

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4 d. ago ‘No safe place to go’: people sent back to France under ‘one in, one out’ deal tell of desperation

In Paris, a group of those returned from UK as part of the immigration scheme say they feel frightened and hopelessAfran, an Iranian asylum seeker, sits forlornly across the road from a Paris shelter, hemmed in between vast slabs of concrete and thundering trains above. He has been here before – seven weeks ago, to be precise. The second time, he says, is as terrifying as his first.Afran – not his real name – hit the headlines when he became the first asylum seeker to return to the UK in a small boat after being removed to France under the controversial “one in, one out” scheme on 19 September. He was sent back to Paris for the second time on 5 November. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Why 'lucky' John Swinney may yet become the SNP’s weakest link

John Swinney has been at the heart of SNP decision-making for years and cannot escape the blame for the party’s many mistakes

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5 d. ago Migrant with a 'receding hairline and deep voice' wins age case after an immigration judge rules he is 15

Authorities in Britain believed the asylum seeker was 24 when he arrived because of his 'mature physical demeanour', a tribunal heard - but the migrant insisted he was 15.

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5 d. ago Unpaid women’s groups offer more effective opposition to the SNP than Scottish Labour

Anas Sarwar is failing to capitalise on John Swinney’s stance on trans-identifying males in prisons

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5 d. ago Scots can end Keir Starmer's time in Downing Street by voting for the SNP in May

In his regular column for the Record, First Minister John Swinney says he will tell Keir Starmer what people in Scotland expect him to deliver.

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7 d. ago It's war! Hundreds take to the streets in protest over Starmer's plan to house 300 asylum seekers at Scottish barracks

Scots have sent a resounding message of defiance to Keir Starmer over his plan to house hundreds of asylum seekers at a historic military base.

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