MPs

Midlothian MP Kirsty McNeill has welcomed the release of funds to former miners.

Nearly 1000 former miners get pension boost

The EIJB oversees provision of health and social services

Budget is downpayment on delivering change - Ian Murray

Roisin Therese accepts 2024 PubAid Community Pub Hero Award sponsored by Matthew Clark

Pub Award Currently Held in Edinburgh is Open for 2025 Entries

Emerging technologies will be key in fields such as robotics and artificial intelligence

Edinburgh’s Exascale Computer was the wrong project to cut - Angus Robertson

Former first minister Alex Salmond

Alex Salmond: from free ice cream to independence

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaks during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool

Change has begun for Scotland with Labour - Ian Murray

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1000s sign petition for MP expenses to end amid Fuel Allowance debate

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer - sponsored spectacles? Picture: Justin Tallis/PA Wire

PM should have gone to Specsavers - John McLellan

Changes are being made to the Winter Fuel Payment policy (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Fuel payment cuts are a major blow to pensioners - Miles Briggs

New Edinburgh South West MP Scott Arthur makes his maiden speech in the Commons

Edinburgh MP could bid for new law on treatment for brain cancer

Nicola Sturgeon and John Swinney during the 2014 indy campaign

After 10 years Scotland has chance to move on - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and some of the new Scottish Labour MPs. Image: Getty Images.

Lip reading is not Labour’s speciality on austerity politics- Angus Robertson

Prime Minister, Keir Starmer's Labour party hold 411 seats in Parliament

Our electoral system needs a PR makeover - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater

Labour must break from failed Tory economics - Lorna Slater

Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown. PIC: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Labour can help fight poverty by removing two-child benefit cap - Susan Dalgety

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visits a Leyland housing development with Deputy Leader Angela Raynor. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Is it Labour, Tory-lite, or even democracy? - Christine Grahame
I have been reflecting on the recent General Election results across Scotland and the UK more broadly and regretting the fall in SNP seats and the loss of many excellent MPs. However, there is some context to this.
Christine Grahame

MPs are already challenging Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on his position not to reverse the Tory policy to refuse support benefit payments for more than the first two children in a household. Picture: Alberto Pezzali/PA Wire

Starmer under pressure to scrap cruel two-child cap - Angus Robertson

John Swinney of the SNP and Anas Sarwar of the Labour Party take part in BBC Scotland’s UK general election debate at The University of Glasgow

Changed days indeed as Labour and SNP swap places in Scotland - Susan Dalgety

Joanna Cherry congratulates Labour's Scott Arthur on replacing her as the MP for Edinburgh South West (Picture: Katielee Arrowsmith/SWNS)

Simita Kumar: The winner takes it all - a turning point for Scotland?

Tommy Sheppard campaigning with SNP leader and First Minister John Swinney. Picture: Getty Images

For the SNP now comes a time of reflection - Tommy Sheppard

Angus MacDonald is elected to the Inverness, Skye, and West Ross-shire constituency

Carrying forward Charles Kennedy’s legacy with pride - Alex Cole-Hamilton

All the latest updates on the General Election 2024 in Edinburgh

General Election: All the highlights from Edinburgh, the Lothians and beyond

There are few people less influential in the House of Commons than surplus MPs in a big majority governing party, says Angus Robertson

Only SNP MPs will stand up for Scotland in the commons - Angus Robertson

Scottish Green Party co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie during the party's General Election manifesto launch at Summerhall in Edinburgh

Vote like our future depends on it for genuine change - Lorna Slater

Voting SNP puts you in control of Scotland’s future - Simita Kumar

Oddly, Mr Sunak does remind Susan Morrison of an Aardman Animations character

Disaster-prone prime minister who’s wearing the wrong trousers - Susan Morrison

Labour leader Keir Starmer and his Scottish counterpart Anas Sarwar greet supporters during the launch of the Scottish Labour general election campaign (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Election is straight choice between a broken status quo or change with Labour - ...
Being MP for Edinburgh South is an enormous privilege. I am immensely grateful for the support I have had from voters since first being elected in 2010, and I hope to have the opportunity to continue serving this wonderful part of our city.
Ian Murray

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss attends the 'Popular Conservatives' conference on February 6, 2024 in London (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Sending SNP MPs to Westminster will show a better future is possible - Angus Rob...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer welcomes former Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke in his parliamentary office in the House of Commons following her defection to Labour (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Conservatives are unable to stop the boatloads of defectors - Vladimir McTavish

MPs have backed a bill, championed by prime minister Rishi Sunak to phase out the legal sale of cigarettes. Picture: Kim Mogg/Getty

Will Rishi Sunak’s new law really herald the end of cigarettes? - Susan Dalgety

Rachel Reeves, Labour's Shadow Chancellor, visited Blackpool to unveil Labour's poster campaign on the 'Tory Tax Double Whammy' - pictured with Labour supporters at Blackpool Cricket Club.

Putting our NHS on the road to recovery - Ian Murray

MPs have discovered attempts to hack their parliamentary emails

Heady mix of sex and power with a whiff of espionage - Alex Cole-Hamilton

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Sunak has chickened out of spring election - Ian Murray

Martyn Day MP has called for an investigation into an Israeli airstrike on UK civilians.

SNP MPs call for investigation into Israeli airstrikes on UK civilians.

Martyn Day MP has called for the Chancellor to scrap the 'school uniform tax'

MP backs campaign to scrap ‘school uniform tax’

Tory donor Frank Hester and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Credit: PA/Getty/Mark Hall

Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy election ride - Vladimir McTavi...

Some Tory MPs are keen for Boris Johnson to replace Rishi Sunak as leader

Some desperate Tories are plotting to bring back Boris Johnson - Steve Cardowni...

Humza Yousaf now believes that anyone earning more than £28,500 in Scotland should pay more income tax, says Ian Murray

Warped tax priorities from the SNP - Ian Murray

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will face a lot of obstacles this week.

Time to show Sunak the door - Angus Robertson

Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater

This is a time for climate leadership, not cowardice - Lorna Slater

Former deputy first minister John Swinney arrives at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearing in Edinburgh

How did it unravel so quickly for Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP? - Ian Murray

SNP remains on your side - Adam Nols-McVey

Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which exposed the Horizon scandal in which 700 postmasters and mistresses were wrongly prosecuted, has been watched by more than nine million viewers

Justice has been a long time coming - Ian Murray

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget will be on March 6

- Ian Murray: Happy new election year resolutions to all

Dubai hosts the COP28 United Nations climate summit this week. (Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP) (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Big oil continues to spout its nonsense - Tommy Sheppard

Watch moment Wilko boss tells MP she 'let down' staff and shoppers

Labour’s Shadow Scotland Secretary Ian Murray MP

Scottish Labour MPs look set to increase at next election - Susan Dalgety

Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater

Our Parliament must back a ceasefire in Gaza - Lorna Slater

The Beatles each received an MBE at Buckingham Palace, 26th October 1965. From left to right, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A spectacular week for fans of time travel - Vladimir McTavish

Social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville with minister for migration and refugees Emma Roddick (right) and minister for independence Jamie Hepburn (left) at the launch of the sixth paper in the Building a New Scotland series, at the V&A in Dundee. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

How we can build for a new Scotland after independence - Angus Robertson

Edinburgh Eastern MSP Ash Regan's defection to Alba means Alex Salmond's party now has a platform t Holyrood.

Is Humza Yousaf too dismissive of Ash Regan defection?

Edinburgh Eastern MSP Ash Regan says she could no longer fulfil her pro-independence mandate as part of the SNP. Picture: Lisa Ferguson.

‘SNP indy change made me defect’ says Alba's first MSP

Crispin Blunt has admitted he was the Tory MP arrested over the suspicion of rape

Senior Tory names himself as MP arrested on suspicion of rape

Housing Secretary Michael Gove wrote to Tory backbenchers to say the ban on “no-fault” section 21 evictions promised as part of the Renters Reform Bill will not be enacted before a series of improvements are made in the legal system. Campaigners say this could delay the ban for years. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Kim Mogg

Ban on no fault evictions delayed indefinitely by Tory government

Former SNP MP Dr Lisa Cameron, left, who has defected to the Tories, and SNP leader Humza Yousaf. Credit: PA/Getty

SNP MP defects to Tories after claiming 'toxic and bully treatment'