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A snap independence referendum would 'disrespect the people', says Sturgeon as she tries to win over pro-UK voters

15/10/15 14:34

The SNP leader told her conference in Aberdeen that she would need 'strong evidence' that Scots had changed their mind on leaving the UK before pushing for a re-run of last year's vote. ...read

Re-run of Scottish independence vote is now 'inevitable', says Sturgeon as she blames austerity for rising nationalism

11/10/15 15:30

The Scottish First Minister said she believes independence would happen in her lifetime but will monitor public opinion before calling a repeat of the referendum in September 2014.

'We drink for a good time AND when we're having a sh*t time': Sturgeon says alcohol is 'ever present' in Scottish people's lives

05/10/15 19:03

The Scottish first minister (pictured) said alcohol was 'too much of an ever present' in people's lives and claimed the country had an 'unhealthy' relationship with the bottle.

Top SNP minister hauled before Scottish MPs to explain why she handed £150,000 of taxpayers' cash to the T-in-the-Park festival

30/09/15 17:55

The Scottish government's culture secretary Fiona Hyslop (pictured) was hauled before a Holyrood committee to explain why the grant was needed amid widespread public fury.

SNP chief Nicola Sturgeon backtracks on her vow to give a home to Syrian refugees

27/09/15 08:56

The Scottish First Minister made national headlines after she claimed she would be ‘absolutely happy’ to open her home to people fleeing war and violence in the Middle East.

Thank God for scruffy Corbyn: Sturgeon jokes that FINALLY 'a male politician is getting talked about for what he wears'

24/09/15 19:17

The SNP leader, who has complained about the focus on her looks, joked that the Labour leader's dress sense 'has been subject to as much commentary over the past couple of weeks as mine.'

Cameron tells SNP to 'move on' from last year's referendum as Sturgeon threatens ANOTHER independence vote

18/09/15 10:22

The PM, speaking on the first anniversary of last year's independence vote, will today set new plans to make it 'crystal clear' that the Scottish Parliament is permanent and cannot be scrapped by Westminster.

'What sorcery is this?' Customer wrote hilariously angry complaint to Tesco when he didn't get his meal deal discount - and got a suitably tongue-in-cheek response from the supermarket giant

11/09/15 22:27

Billy Cunningham, pictured, posted on Tesco's Facebook page after a self-service till in a branch in Maidstone, Kent, failed to apply the discount to his crisps, chicken sandwich and drink.

Now STURGEON is trolled by the cybernats: Angry nationalists slam Scotland's First Minister for welcoming the 'foreign Queen'

09/09/15 18:07

The SNP leader was criticised by nationalists who accused her of 'worshipping an Anglo-German Queen' after she welcomed Britain's longest-serving monarch to Scotland.

SNP's Nicola Sturgeon attacks 'hideous and cruel' focus on her appearance - as she goes all blonde for glamorous Vogue photoshoot

07/09/15 14:13

The SNP leader told the fashion magazine that she was criticised over her appearance far more than male politicians and claimed the attacks were often 'hideous and quite cruel'.

What was she thinking? Sturgeon tries out bizarre brain scanning device with TARTAN ears (while orange Cameron raises eyebrows in Portugal)

04/09/15 14:54

Ms Strurgeon posed with a brain scanner on a visit to Glasgow today (right). It came as the PM raised eyebrows in Portugal after appearing to have spent too much time in the sun on holiday (inset).

SNP MP exposed as a 'pathetic' internet troll who attacked the Royal Family and branded the Union Flag Britain's 'butcher's apron'

04/09/15 12:14

EXCLUSIVE: SNP MP Paul Monaghan has been forced to apologise over a series of messages posted on Twitter. The hard-line nationalist criticised the 'Jewish race' and attacked the Royals.

Nicola Sturgeon's plans for 50p-a-unit minimum alcohol price on the rocks after European court finds they could infringe free trade rules

04/09/15 10:03

The announcement has dramatically increased the chances of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP of being told the plan to implement a pricing policy is not compatible with EU law.

Bitter row breaks out between Nicola Sturgeon and George Osborne as she accuses him of 'arrogance' over £500million investment in Faslane naval base

01/09/15 00:41

The SNP leader accused the Chancellor of ‘arrogance’ for ‘pre-empting’ a parliamentary vote on whether to renew Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent, which is due to be held next year.

SNP MP finds her name on Ashley Madison list: Married politician is horrified after her email address is published by hackers in massive data file revealing 37 million users of adultery website

20/08/15 01:48

Michelle Thomson, the married MP for Edinburgh West, said she is the victim of a malicious campaign after hackers named her as a member of Ashley Madison.

You can't stop a second referendum on Scottish independence, defiant Sturgeon tells Cameron

31/07/15 13:00

Scotland's First Minister insisted 'no politician has the right to stand in the way' of another vote after Mr Cameron ruled out a re-run on the independence question before 2020.

No Scottish independence referendum before 2020, Cameron tells Sturgeon as SNP push for a second vote

28/07/15 10:16

The PM has said that he will not allow a second poll on Scottish independence within the next five years, and if Scots hold a vote without permission from Westminster it will have no standing.

SNP accused of plotting a second referendum on independence, less than a year after voters rejected Sturgeon's dream

21/07/15 13:32

Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly claimed that another vote is not on the 'immediate horizon' but her party in Westminster appears to be laying the groundwork for a new bid to break up the UK.

SNP to spend £600,000 of public money on backroom team to add PR polish to its new MPs

21/07/15 10:54

Each SNP MP is to hand over a proportion of their staffing budget to pay for the initiative, which will include PR opportunities designed to woo voters and boost their profiles.

SNP set for a landslide in Scottish elections... but most people still reject Sturgeon's dream of independence

21/07/15 10:53

An exclusive new opinion poll reveals the SNP is now more popular than it was in May's General Election, as Scottish Labour continues to haemorrhage support.

CHRIS DEERIN: Sturgeon at 45: A political icon here for the long term. So isn't it time for some real policies?

20/07/15 01:35

For the next decade or so, the likelihood must be that Scotland will be run by Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon. And who would deny her the right? She is a formidable package, writes CHRIS DEERIN.

The SNP's secret plan to meddle in ENGLISH affairs: Sturgeon's MPs are ordered to interfere in local issues with NO relevance to Scotland

17/07/15 13:08

SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson said the party would engage with business leaders and communities in towns and cities to discuss local issues which may have no relevance to Scotland.

'We appear to have woken up in 1965': Nicola Sturgeon's anger at magazine cover asking why so many successful female politicians including herself are childless

16/07/15 21:19

The New Statesman's cover reads 'The Motherhood Trap', with an illustration of Sturgeon (pictured), Angela Merkel, Theresa May and Liz Kendall stood round a cot with a ballot box inside.

Hypocritical, shameless, unprincipled: Sturgeon's stance on hunting is just the start of her war on England, writes CHRIS DEERIN

15/07/15 07:46

Nicola Sturgeon performed a cynical U-turn and told her 56 Westminster MPs that they should vote against a partial relaxation of the ban on foxhunting in England and Wales, writes CHRIS DEERIN.

My mandate is bigger than yours! Sturgeon forces Cameron to postpone hunting vote and vows SNP will try to block English laws

15/07/15 02:06

The Tories today backed down on plans to amend the hunting ban in England and Wales after Ms Sturgeon threatened to inflict a defeat because the Prime Minister had failed to show the SNP 'respect'.

I'm the only 20-year-old Osborne will help with housing: Applause in the Commons as SNP's Mhairi Black, 20, uses maiden speech to tear into Tories and Labour

14/07/15 18:51

The SNP's Mhairi Black, 20, delivered one of the best maiden speeches of the 2015 intake, confidently taking on her political rivals after just 10 weeks as an MP.

SNP vows to vote against Tory plan to water down hunt ban in revenge for attempts to curb its MPs' voting rights

14/07/15 06:08

Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader in Westminster, accused the ‘arrogant’ Government of treating Scots as second-class citizens by proposing to introduce English Votes for English laws.

Don't put up tax, Scots tell Sturgeon with warning they have already been squeezed enough by the SNP

13/07/15 12:29

An exclusive opinion poll for the Scottish Daily Mail found only 9 per cent of voters want Nicola Sturgeon to raise income tax when MSPs take control from Westminster.

Honks of 'hoots, mon'. My the Scots WERE happy: QUENTIN LETTS yesterday in Parliament

03/07/15 10:28

You may find this hard to believe but the Scots were unhappy. When Commons Leader Chris Grayling proposed English Votes for English Laws, our Scots siblings bristled like so many Stirlingshire thistles. We had honks of ‘hoots mon!’, or variations thereon, to the power of 50.

Sturgeon threatens new independence referendum after the SNP clash with Tories over 'English votes for English laws' plan

03/07/15 05:52

Amid heckling and shouting in the Commons, ministers said English MPs would be given an effective ‘veto’ over laws which relate to their constituents alone.

Scots will never again over-rule English MPs, David Cameron tells the SNP in clash over who votes on new laws

02/07/15 09:00

Chris Grayling, the Leader of the Commons, is expected to unveil plans for Scottish MPs to be excluded from certain stages of the process of passing laws which do not affect their constituents.

The 'most powerful woman in Britain' meets... the Queen: Nicola Sturgeon heads list of UK's top 10 influencers as she hosts Her Majesty in Edinburgh

02/07/15 01:00

The SNP leader has beaten the likes of Angelina Jolie and Caitlyn Jenner to come top of the power list of top 10 influencers put together by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: How will the Queen handle First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with whom she is due to have tea?

01/07/15 01:54

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Now in Scotland, how will the Queen handle her brisk, focused First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, with whom she is due to have tea?

Has Nicola Sturgeon been taking style tips from Angela Merkel? SNP leader and German chancellor step out in identical outfits (and both sport no-nonsense 'dos)

29/06/15 13:20

After she was hailed for her 'radical transformation', it now seems as though Scotland's First Minister has been taking style tips from another political powerhouse, German Chancellor Angela Merkel

CHRIS DEERIN: With style and a dash of daring, the new SNP MPs rise to battle for their own little corner

29/06/15 08:06

Half of me – the half that dislikes the SNP – would have been happy to see them fail; the other half, the bit that likes to see fellow Scots acquit themselves well, hoped they’d show they were good enough.

Britain's youngest MP Mhairi Black awarded a first-class degree weeks after she was elected to parliament for the SNP

26/06/15 16:53

The Scottish National Party MP, who wrote her dissertation on her own party, achieved a first-class MA (Hons) in Politics, and will graduate from Glasgow University tomorrow.

EXCLUSIVE: Nicola Sturgeon says she'll purge party of cybernats as she pledges to crack down on trolls and end online abuse

25/06/15 23:05

Writing exclusively for the Daily Mail, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgwon has vowed to clean up Scottish politics and called on politicians who 'follow' online abusers to stop 'feeding the trolls'.

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