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#GE2017 Gordon Brown visits Edinburgh

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The Rt Hon Gordon Brown, former Chancellor and Prime Minister, stopped off in Liberton this evening to address some 250 -300 Labour party members in the school hall at Liberton High School.And his speech...

#GE2017 Edinburgh North and Leith – Iain McGill Conservative

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Iain McGill is the Conservative candidate for Edinburgh North and Leith at the General Election on 8 June 2017. We met him in leafy Warriston where he was busy delivering fliers with some of...
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#GE2017 Former LibDem councillor now backing Conservatives

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Alastair Shields, who was initially elected to The City of Edinburgh Council as a Liberal Democrat, and who retired from the council at this month's election, has said he will now support the Conservatives.Mr Shields...

Same again for SNP in two Central Scotland seats

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SNP aim to hold on to two Central Scotland constituencies with the same candidates in the General Election next month.Hannah Bardell contests Livingston against opponents from the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Conservative and Unionist...

#GE2017 – Liberal Democrats pick their Edinburgh West candidate

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Even before the votes are cast in the local council elections it is clear that the political heat over the General Election is being turned up with the Edinburgh West seat a particular target. The...

Letter from Scotland

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The hills are alive with the sound of…….a general election.  I was about the last person in Scotland to know, because on Tuesday I was away hill-walking in the wilds of Loch Laggan.  We...

#GE2017 Summary of Edinburgh seats

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In Edinburgh at the last UK Parliamentary election in 2015, the only seat which was won by a party other than the SNP was Edinburgh South which is held by Labour's Ian Murray MP. Edinburgh...

Prime Minister calls a General Election on 8 June 2017

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The Prime Minister Theresa May has unexpectedly announced a snap General Election on 8 June 2017,  six weeks from now and a month after the local elections yet to be held across the UK.The...