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Bridget Phillipson said she would get 'round the table' with teachers if she were education secretary

Labour's education secretary repeatedly refuses to say if she backs teacher strikes
Bridget Phillipson, Labour's shadow education secretary, refused to clearly say whether or not she supported teachers taking industrial action in England and Wales.

India Willoughby said she would 'move north' if Scotland ever became independent

Nicola Sturgeon praised for defending trans community amid 'culture war'

Keir Starmer, right, was responding to comments made by Nicola Sturgeon on a podcast

Keir Starmer responds to Nicola Sturgeon dig that Labour are 'pale imitation' Tories

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (right) answers to UK Labour leader Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer signals intent to directly control Scottish Labour on gender reform

A polling firm posted a word cloud of responses to the question: “What policy do you most associate with Keir Starmer?”

'Don't know': These are the words the public associates most with Keir Starmer

David Blunkett served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair

Former Labour minister backs UK Government use of Section 35 order over gender reform

Flynn branded Sunak's government a 'parcel of rogues' during PMQs

PMQs round-up Tories scorched with Burns' Night 'parcel of rogues' burn over Zahawi tax row

The poll found more than half of voters would back independence supporting parties in a de facto referendum

EXCLUSIVE Majority of Scots would back independence in de facto referendum, poll finds

An inquiry has been launched by the Commons Standards Commissioner into Alex Davies-Jones

Front bench Labour MP under investigation for potential lobbying rules breach

Nicola Sturgeon took a swipe at Gordon Brown over his claims during the 2014 independence referendum

'We were right in 2014': Nicola Sturgeon takes jab at Gordon Brown amid NHS row

Richard Sharp has asked for a review into any potential conflicts of interest after it was alleged he helped Boris Johnson secure a loan

BBC chair Richard Sharp calls for board review after Boris Johnson loan row

Anas Sarwar said backing a referendum on rejoining the EU would make him 'inconsistent'

Anas Sarwar rules out EU referendum despite 'economic disaster' of Brexit

The Labour Party has reported Boris Johnson to a standards watchdog

Boris Johnson reported to watchdog as 'quagmire of sleaze' surrounds former PM

Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to the media outside BBC Broadcasting House in London

Labour's trans split highlights party's fatal 'fence sitting' problem, expert says

It has been reported that Nadhim Zahawi paid HM Revenue & Customs a seven-figure sum to end a tax dispute

Nadhim Zahawi's position 'untenable' after seven-figure tax penalty reports

Tory minister Nadhim Zahawi has paid a penalty to HMRC as part of a settlement over his tax affair

Tory minister 'paid penalty' amid multi-million pound tax dispute with HMRC

Eligible parents will be able to take up to 12 weeks of paid neonatal care leave

SNP bid for paid neonatal care leave for parents moves closer to becoming law

Keir Starmer appears to have no clear aim, policies, programmes or principles

Letters Anyone who thinks of the Labour Party as remotely socialist needs help

Anas Sarwar said he and Keir Starmer were both 'absolute supporters of devolution'

Anas Sarwar comes out of hiding on gender reform and calls for 'grown-up' approach

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Secretary of State Peter Kyle

COMMENT How can anyone be expected to trust weather vane Keir Starmer?

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is reportedly considering deploying a Section 35 order to stop the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill from being given Royal Assent.

UPDATED Nicola Sturgeon: 'Outrage' if UK blocks Scotland's gender reforms from becoming law

The EU is celebrating 30 years of the single market

EXCLUSIVE 'Scotland will be back': SNP in message to EU after 30 years of single market

Voters may have doubts about how much positive impact independence can have in the short-term

COMMENT Professor Gregor Gall: How an SNP shift to the left could boost Yes

Ballot boxes and signs are dispatched to polling stations around Scotland from the Old Royal High School, Edinburgh ahead of the European Parliamentary election..

COMMENT George Kerevan: Yes movement must not just sit back and wait for an election

UK Labour leader Keir Starmer contradicted his colleagues in Scotland, saying he had 'concerns' about gender reform

Keir Starmer faces backlash for contradicting Scottish Labour on gender reform

Keir Starmer said he has 'concerns' about Scotland's GRR laws

Keir Starmer accused of parroting 'Tory myths' on Scottish gender laws

We previously ranked the financial interest of Scottish Tory and SNP MPs, so now our analysis will focus on the remaining Scottish Westminster parliamentarians

SPECIAL REPORT Who is donating to Labour, LibDem and Alba MPs and how much are they getting?

Susie McCabe’s comments highlight a fatal flaw in using the next General Election as a de facto referendum

Letters Independence will not be won by playing by Westminster’s rules

Ash Sarkar is set to appear on Question Time

Left-wing journalist Ash Sarkar to appear on Question Time

Former TUC boss Frances O'Grady has taken her seat in the House of Lords

Former Trade Union Congress boss joins Labour benches in House of Lords

Clare Perry O'Neill was a minister under Theresa May's premiership

Former Tory minister quits party and heaps praise on Keir Starmer

Labour frontbenchers Wes Streeting (left) and Yvette Cooper received thousands from a secretive firm, it has emerged

Labour MPs in spotlight over donations from secretive firm

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn wrote to the Labour leader inviting him to a meeting to “work together” to strategise how to stop Rishi Sunak’s anti-strike law bid.

SNP challenge Keir Starmer to join forces to stop Tories anti-strike law attack

Keir Starmer was pressed on his leadership pledge to 'end outsourcing in the NHS'

Keir Starmer defends backing private sector in NHS despite 'end outsourcing' pledge

Former prime minister Gordon Brown speaks about plans for how a Labour government would transform the Union

COMMENT Gordon Brown's underwhelming proposals show us why Scotland must leave the Union

Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to UCL at Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London

COMMENT ‘Taking back control’ comes in many more forms than presented by Starmer’s Labour

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer arrives at UCL at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London to make his first major speech of 2023

We are right to distrust Starmer's pledge to unions

Keir Starmer has been accused of wanting to treat the NHS as a 'cash cow' if he becomes prime minister

Keir Starmer plans to bring private firms into NHS branded 'toxic'

Keir Starmer has now embraced the disaster of Brexit, promising to ‘make it work’ – somehow

comment Post-Brexit Britain only offers Scotland permanent isolation

Keir Starmer’s speech was uninspiring, but here are three indy events that should make you more hopeful

comment Labour's dismissal of Scotland shows it's time to get the indyref ball rolling

Clockwise from right: Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and UK Labour leader Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer looks to Nicola Sturgeon 'for inspiration', Douglas Ross claims

Is Labour's pledge enough to pull Yes and SNP voters to the No and Labour side?

Exclusive Yes supporters react as Labour pledge to 'take back control' and satisfy Yes voters

In 2002 it was revealed that union leader Joe Gormley had been an MI5 informant

Letters When will working people realise that Labour don’t have their backs?

Keith Brown said Keir Starmer proved his party is indistinguishable from the Tories with his new year speech

Starmer's speech proves Labour are 'carbon-copy' of Tories on Brexit, say SNP

Keir Starmer's Labour Party have sold out

COMMENT Here's a target for Yessers in 2023 – The REAL Scottish Politics

The political chaos at Westminster in 2022 means there has been three prime ministers

ANALYSIS Review of the Year: The three PMs who 'showed the need for independence'

Rishi Sunak's Conservative government has been accused of agreeing bad post-Brexit trade deals

EXCLUSIVE Labour branded 'co-signatories' of Tories' post-Brexit trade deal failures

Seven in 10 Brits have no confidence that Rishi Sunak's Tories will be able to tackle the cost of living crisis, polling has found

'F***ed': Brits have bleak outlook for life in UK in 2023, poll shows

Paul Nowak, right, pictured in 2017 with then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

The new TUC chief has a gloomy forecast for Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer's Labour Party want to convince voters they are the party of law and order

Labour unveil plans to give victims power to choose how offenders are punished

Keir Hardie at Trafalgar Square, London, 1908. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images).

BACK IN THE DAY Keir Hardie: The life of a radical from the coal mines to the Commons

Members of the House of Lords cannot also sit in the Commons but there is no such block on them holding seats at Holyrood

EXCLUSIVE Scots ‘should be affronted’ by UK loophole which lets Lords be MSPs

Brendan Clarke-Smith was accused of making an unacceptable comment towards a women Labour campaigner

Tory MP panned for 'misogynistic' tweet aimed at young Labour activist

Labour in plan to win celebrity support with 'endorsements manager' role