Paul Hutcheon
Political Editor, Daily Record✍🏻
Host, Planet Holyrood 🎙️
Aberdeen fan ⚽️
Tip offs: paul.hutcheon@reachplc.com
- NEW: Anas Sarwar has given conditional support to Keir Starmer staying on as Prime Minister over the Peter Mandelson scandal. He said Starmer could remain as PM, but only if full transparency was provided.
- 🎙️ Latest Planet Holyrood: - Keir Starmer in the firing line over the Mandelson/Epstein scandal - Anas Sarwar's re-think over trans rights - The SNP kills plans to criminalise sex buying
- EXC: UK Government spends £56,000 on Inverness barracks earmarked for asylum seeker accommodation.
- NEW: The SNP Deputy First Minister missed the vote on an anti-prostitution law due to having a "family issue". This is despite Kate Forbes answering a question in the chamber hours earlier on ferries.
- EXC: SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn demands Sarwar sack Labour MSP over paedophile friendship.
- NEW: Eleven MSPs did not vote on Ash Regan's Bill to criminalise sex buying. One of them was deputy first minister Kate Forbes. The SNP whipped their MSPs to vote against.
- BREAKING: MSPs vote 64-54 to reject Ash Regan's Bill to criminalise sex buying.
- NEW: SNP Government orders investigation into safety levels at scandal-hit hospital.
- NEW: Refugee homeless applications to Scottish councils soar by over 50% in a year. People granted leave to remain accounted for 16% of all bids for temporary accommodation.
- Pressure is building on Anas Sarwar to withdraw the whip from Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy over her close friendship with a serial paedophile. An SNP MSP, Scottish Greens candidate and Labour insiders want Sarwar to act amid the Lord Mandelson scandal.
