Brexit

An EU Flag flown by an anti-Brexit protester is seen with a Union Flag set on a flag pole in Parliament sq1uare in front of the Houses of Parliament in London. Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images

Poll: Brexit has damaged economy, NHS and Britain's world standing, majority say

Many EU supporters are frustrated with Labour leader Keir Starmer over his dismissal of a return to the EU (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Brexit regret is growing and the campaign to rejoin the EU will come

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of doubling down on his Brexit stance.

SNP says Labour going 'along with madness' as Keir Starmer defends Brexit policy

The UK Internal Market Bill remains has caused a rift between the administrations.

What is the Internal Market Act, and how has it impacted Scottish Government?

The first deals struck by the UK post-Brexit will come into force on Wednesday. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

Scotland’s producers deserve better than ‘rushed through’ UK trade deals

Hibs suffered their own 7-0 disaster against Malmo.

Aidan Smith: Call Farage, we need another Brexit to get our clubs out of Europe

Asylum seekers make up a fraction of overall immigration into the UK (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Here's the truth about immigration that the Tories must face up to

Surveys on An Teallach show the impacts of heavy footfall from walkers and the increasingly extreme Scottish weather, which are speeding up erosion and causing damage to mountain habitats. Picture: OATS

Climate change, hillwalkers and Brexit take toll on Scottish mountains

The Saltire of Scotland and St George's Cross of England stand side by side (Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scotland might be better run if it actually was a colony

The decision to house Ukrainian refugees, seen observing a minute's silence for Ukrainian troops, on the MS Victoria cruise ship explains one reason why migrants don't move to Scotland – a lack of housing (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Scotland needs to sell itself to migrants as a good place to live – Brian Wilson

Concerns have been raised over the cuts to a number of services

UK Home Secretary is 'a threat to NE agriculture' says MSP

Lorna Slater

Slater says deposit return scheme could be axed by end of month

Rishi Sunak is seeking a new Brexit trade deal.

Rishi Sunak seeking new Brexit terms as car giants warn of 'existential threat'

SNP Westminster deputy leader Mhairi Black asked the deputy Prime Minister to admit Brexit has failed.

Mhairi Black asks deputy Prime Minister to admit Brexit has failed'

Vauxhall owners warns of job losses due to Brexit

Vauxhall warns of “significant job losses” due to Brexit deal

Junior doctors take part in a rally in Trafalgar Square during a nationwide strike on April 11, 2023 in London. Junior doctors in England held a 96-hour walkout hoping to achieve full pay restoration after seeing their pay cut by more than a quarter since 2008. Picture: Carl Court/Getty Images

Analysis: Why staffing crisis is in fact 'all about pay', Mr Health Secretary

Suella Braverman speaks during the National Conservatism Conference at The Emmanuel Centre (Getty Images/Leon Neal)

Suella Braverman's 'train fruit pickers in UK' claim branded 'naive' by farmers

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has bowed to reality by scrapping a plan to allow thousands of EU-era laws to expire at the end of this year (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Tory Brexiteers starting to realise leaving EU was harder than they imagined

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 26: Presenter Victoria Derbyshire hosts "How Should I Vote? - The EU Debate" at The Briggait on May 26, 2016 in Glasgow. The BBC's first televised EU referendum debate was held in Glasgow in front of an audience of eighteen to twenty nine year olds and a panel of SNP's Alex Salmond and Labour's Alan Johnson backing staying in the EU while UKIP MEP Diane James and Conservative Liam Fox arguing to leave. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Brian Monteith: There’s hope when political bullies are called out

Vulnerable people are in need of social care packages, not more government bureaucracy (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA)

£2bn should not be wasted on National Care Service nobody wants – Brian Wilson

Shoppers are being warned Brexit rules could lead to empty supermarket shelves

Shoppers warned Brexit rules could lead to empty supermarket shelves

Short-term candidate availability across Scotland contracted in April, with the latest reduction linked to general labour shortages, Brexit and an increased reluctance among workers to seek new roles due to worries over job security.

Scottish jobs market takes a dive amid 'lingering economic uncertainty'

First Minister Humza Yousaf will attend today's Coronation in London (Picture: Fraser Bremner - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Yousaf should act gracious over Coronation

Spain launches ‘digital nomad’ visa to allow Brits to live there for up to 5 years - how to apply

Brits can now live in Spain for up to 5 years thanks to new visa

Brexit: SNP MSP attacks 'deafening silence' of Tories on Brexit who fail to 'stand up for Scotland's farmers'

SNP MSP attacks 'deafening silence' of Tories on Brexit

While many Scottish tourism businesses aren’t in a position to offer big wage increases, there are other ways to attract potential employees

Ad Feature Retaining staff in sustainable tourism

Scottish Conservative chair Craig Hoy

Scottish Conservative chair condemns Tory peer's attack on devolution

Dominic Raab has resigned as Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary (Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Brian Wilson: Raab quitting means 4/5ths of Britannia Unchained fanatics are out

Lord Frost's contribution to Scotland's constitutional debate should be quickly forgotten (PIcture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Frost's attack on devolution played into the SNP's hands – Scotsman comment

Archie Gemmill scores against the Netherlands in the 1978 World Cup, raising hopes that are soon dashed as Scotland go out on goal difference (Picture: SNS Group)

Joyce McMillan: Despite SNP's woes, its kind of green social democracy is future

Lord David Frost called for devolution to be rolled back.

Tories and SNP condemn Lord Frost after peer calls for devolution to be reversed

Polling stations will be open from 7am until 10pm on 4th May

David Davis calls for delay to photo ID for voting in local elections

Jackie Wylie is artistic director and chief executive of the Nationa Theatre of Scotland. Picture: Kirsty Anderson

National Theatre pledges to bring in 'more diverse voices' under future vision

King Charles is helped by an employee to cut a cake in the shape of a crown during his state visit to Germany last month (Picture: Jens Büttner/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Lavish coronation amid cost-of-living crisis is Brexit-style retro-patriotism

An electric bus crosses the Clyde Arc during COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow (Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images)

When will Scotland realise the importance of its buses? – Paul White

Bertie Ahern, Senator George Mitchell and Tony Blair after the signing of the agreement on April 10 1998

Good Friday Agreement - what is it?

Coaches wait to enter the Port of Dover during a weekend of lengthy delays for passengers (Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA)

Ministers’ incompetence as much to blame for Dover delays as Brexit

DOVER, ENGLAND - APRIL 03: Traffic moves through Dover Port on April 03, 2023 in Dover, England. Over the weekend, travellers had reported delays of more than 12 hours for ferries crossing the English Channel. By the early hours of Monday morning, traffic had largely returned to normal. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

UK Government says 'new processes' behind Dover delays but won't blame Brexit

Workers thin trees in an apple orchard.

Scottish businesses look further afield to recruit workers amid staffing crisis

First Minister Humza Yousaf can draw on lessons and warnings from history following his 52-48 per cent win in the SNP leadership election (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

After Yousaf's close SNP leadership contest win, party can learn from Brexit

Kemi Badenoch has said the UK joining a major Indo-Pacific trade bloc is “about the potential for growth tomorrow” as she downplayed estimates suggesting the deal would boost the economy by just 0.08%.

Badenoch downplays claims UK-Asia trade pact will only boost economy by 0.08%

Professor Angus Laing. Image: Scott Louden

Investment Conference: Heed spirit of Adam Smith

Newly elected First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf on the steps of Bute House, Edinburgh, with his cabinet after their first meeting. Picture date: Wednesday March 29, 2023.

Humza Yousaf's new cabinet - in pictures

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen during a press conference in Windsor. Picture: Dan Kitwood/PA Wire

UK economy 4% lower because of Brexit, says OBR chair

Lord Falconer said both administrations had "failed" by not finding a resolution.

Starmer going tough on drugs is latest example of Labour ducking the argument

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked about the conduct of the Met during Prime Minister's Questions.

PMQs: How did the SNP's Stephen Flynn, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer perform?

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is braced for a possible Tory backbench rebellion as MPs vote on a key plank of his new deal with Brussels on post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss to vote against Sunak’s Brexit deal

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said while the Windsor Framework represented “significant progress” in addressing concerns with the Northern Ireland Protocol he said it does not deal with some of the “fundamental problems at the heart of our current difficulties”.

DUP to vote against new Brexit deal

Whoever succeeds Nicola Sturgeon needs to face up to the economic problems that Scottish independence would cause (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Using figures accepted by SNP, the economic cost of independence is shocking

Mum's the Word: Larry the Downing Street Cat will not be presenting Match of the Day. Pic: Susannah Ireland/AFP via Getty Images

Janet Christie’s Mum’s the Word - Why Lineker and language matter

Archippus Sturrock and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands at the Franco-British Summit at the Élysée Palace in Paris (Picture: Helene Ba)

Auld Alliance with France can help rebuild the good relations damaged by Brexit

Vertical farming, originally developed by Nasa scientists as a potential way to grow food for astronauts in space, involves rearing crops indoors in upright stacked layers, with the environment strictly controlled to optimise plant growth

Salad days: How farming tech invented by Nasa could solve food problems

No one is responsible for offering confidential support or counselling to young people who have lost a parent (Picture, posed by model: John Devlin)

Bereaved children need help and, right now, many are not getting it

SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf

Humza Yousaf says he will appoint figure to head up strategy for rejoining EU

Duncan Thorp, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Social Enterprise Scotland

Social enterprises are in rude health - Duncan Thorp

The trade body says the report comes amid calls for an overhaul of the 'cluttered' regulatory and planning system for salmon farming. Picture: Robert Paterson.

Scots fish farms boosted economy by £3bn over last decade, says Salmon Scotland

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A screenshot from one of the Red Ice videos uploaded to BitChute, in which white nationalist broadcadter Lana Lokteff describes Humza Yousaf and his family as "enjoying the fruits of a white society." Picture: BitChute

Police probing abuse aimed at Humza Yousaf by white supremacists

Recycling schemes in other countries are not driven by a political desire to do things differently to England (Picture: Jonathan Pow/PA)

Deposit return scheme's fate is another fine mess, not a constitutional outrage

Analysis of the Scottish Government's consultation on the proposed Land Reform Bill have been released (Katharine Hay/The Scotsman)

Land Reform consultation highlights little trust in Scottish Government