General Election 2024 – Prime Minister will help Scottish Conservatives launch election manifesto
Rishi Sunak will join the outgoing Scottish Conservative leader, Douglas Ross, as he unveils the Scottish Conservative General Election manifesto on Monday in Edinburgh.Mr Ross will say the document has a “laser-like focus on the real priorities of the public” and it “provides solutions...
Five things you need to know today
2024 General Election - Edinburgh ResultsThe exit polls predicted - as most polls have for the last few weeks - that there would be a Labour landslide with Labour winning 410 seats across the UK.After an all night count we have the results...
Scottish Conservatives launch their 2024 Manifesto
When Rishi Sunak took the stage in Edinburgh on Monday it was a bit of a farewell to Douglas Ross as the Prime Minister thanked him for his leadership and standing up to the SNP both now and in the 2021 Scottish election.Ross has...
General Election – Charles Dundas – Scottish Liberal Democrats Edinburgh East and Musselburgh
Charles Dundas was a councillor in Edinburgh between 2007 and 2012, and is now the Chief Executive of a Scottish conservation charity.He is CEO of Borders Forest Trust. Originally from West Lothian, and a graduate in History from the University of Glasgow, he...
General Election 2024 – Scottish Labour launch their manifesto
Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, is launching the party's manifesto later on Tuesday.He urges all voters to think about the next generation when they cast their ballot. He says that more than 200,000 people in Scotland will receive a pay rise if Labour forms...
Letter from Scotland
So, we have a sea-change in British politics and Scotland is part of the tide that has brought Labour to its biggest victory for quarter of a century. But unlike its other great victories - Attlee’s 1945 and Wilson’s in 1966 and Blair’s in...
General Election 2024 – Open Letter to all Edinburgh candidates
The Chief Executive of Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, Liz McAreavey has written an open letter to all candidates in the General Election.The letter reads:UK GENERAL ELECTION 2024 – EDINBURGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ASKSFirstly, on behalf of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, I’d...
Douglas Ross tosses his hat into the election ring
Douglas Ross, Scottish Conservative party leader, and former MP for Moray, has announced he will run as a candidate in the newly created Aberdeenshire North and Moray East constituency.Following a meeting with the former Scottish Secretary, David Duguid and his wife on Wednesday...
General Election 2024 – Mike Andersen Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate Edinburgh North and Leith
A South African lawyer who arrived in Edinburgh in 2022, Mike is passionate about Edinburgh and Scotland - so much so that he has decided to stand for Parliament.He said he cannot stand by and watch elderly people get on buses rather than...
Liberal Democrats “will make a huge leap forward”
Following the exit polls announced at 10pm, while Labour look set to win more than enough seats to form the next government, the Scottish Liberal Democrats are predicted to win three times as many seats as they did last time.The Scottish Liberal Democrat...
Council taking emergency action to ensure all postal votes are issued
The City of Edinburgh Council is taking action to ensure that all voters who may not have received their postal voting packs can still exercise their right to vote.For anyone who has yet to receive their papers or who will not be at home...
If successful at Westminster Ross will step down from Holyrood
Douglas Ross MSP, the Scottish Conservative Leader, has confirmed that if he is elected as an MP at the General Election in July he will step down as an MSP and as the party leader.Mr Ross has been criticised for putting himself in...
General Election 2024 – today’s election messages from the major parties
SNPThe SNP says that only a vote for the SNP will protect Scotland’s Parliament from what they regard as increasing Westminster power grabs, as Scotland marks the 25th anniversary of the official opening of the Scottish Parliament on Monday.The SNP has challenged Labour to...
Liberal Democrats will “stand up for opportunity for everyone”
Liberal Democrat candidate for Edinburgh West, Christine Jardine, has today pledged that her party will stand up for opportunity for everyone as she campaigned in Edinburgh today, during which she paid a visit to Edinburgh Pride.Ms Jardine said:“Everyone deserves the chance to get on...
Emergency measures enabled hundreds of postal votes to be processed
An ad-hoc facility in Edinburgh's City Chambers has allowed around four hundred people to retain their right to vote in the 2024 general election.Paul Lawrence, Chief Executive of the council and Chief Returning Officer with full responsibility for the Election Count said that the...
Scottish Liberal Democrats publish their manifesto
The Scottish Liberal Democrats have published their general election manifesto which has an emphasis on care, agriculture and warm homes.The party is setting aside £500 million to invest in care which will get patients out of hospital receiving pressure on the NHS.The...
Advice on casting your vote
The council runs the election count and has advice on how to vote on its website.If you applied for a postal vote by 7 June, then it will have been posted out and should arrive soon if you have not already received...
Climate Festival – have a cup of tea with an Edinburgh Green candidate
Edinburgh Green Westminster candidates will be hosting their own Climate Café at the Climate Festival on Saturday.Amanda Grimm, Simon Jay, and Jo Phillips will be available to speak to anyone attending the festival about climate solutions and many other issues relating to the General...
General Election 2024 – Scottish Greens want action on saving nature
The Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater was at Saughton Park on Thursday to emphasise that the next UK Government must invest in green spaces in cities.Ms Slater said: "Nature restoration is really important to our rural communities. But it's also important in urban...
Murray says Tory manifesto is full of empty promises
Ahead of the launch of the Scottish Tory manifesto Shadow Scotland Secretary Ian Murray says the manifesto is the last gasp of an irrelevant party.Mr Murray said: "Tomorrow Rishi Sunak will venture to Scotland and lightweight figure Douglas Ross will come out of...
Greens will call for an elected head of state in their manifesto
The Scottish Green manifesto will, as expected, confirm the position that the party has stated previously on the monarchy and the constitution.The party supports a written constitution and an independent Scottish Republic with an elected head of state.Mr Harvie will tell a campaign event...
Labour quietly confident as the night progresses
In Edinburgh there are five seats in contention, and the quiet word is that all four - except Edinburgh West which has been held by the Liberal Democrats for some considerable time - could turn red when the results are in.Whether or not...
General Election – help us ask the questions you want answered
What issues should candidates be addressing during the general election campaign in the five Edinburgh constituencies?We want to know what issues are most important to you this general election, to build a citizen's agenda to make sure politicians are answering to their constituents, instead...
Swinney warns of the consequences of a Labour government
John Swinney arrived in Leith on Wednesday evening, the night before the General Election, to support the SNP candidate, Deidre Brock, and to warn what a UK Labour government will look like.He said to the assembled crowd down by the Shore: "The Labour...
Scottish Liberal Democrats warn of extinction and global warming
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has unveiled analysis by his party showing that The Scottish Government’s flagship fuel poverty scheme could take almost a hundred years to reach all eligible households.Speaking at a campaign event at Edinburgh Zoo, he said that one in...
Register to vote by midnight today
The Returning Officer would like to highlight that the deadline for registering to take part in the UK General Election on 4 July is today. Everyone is asked to ensure that they are on the electoral register and therefore able to take part in the election. If...
Homelessness “one of the biggest issues” says Douglas Ross
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said his party will “absolutely” cut the number of homeless people in Edinburgh if it wins the election. Douglas Ross said homelessness was “one of the biggest issues” – despite not mentioning it in his speech unveiling the...
Prime Minister resigns
The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has been to see the King at Buckingham Palace and has tendered his resignation following the disastrous results of the General Election.Before leaving Downing Street he made a short speech in which he apologised to the country and to...
