Tag: Theresa May
Prime Minister’s honours list leaked
SNP MP Pete Wishart has criticised the Tories for "handing out peerages like sweeties" - after details of Theresa May's resignation honours list emerged.
According to the SNP the former Tory Prime Minister has recommended...
Comment – Parliament sends May back to Brussels
Brexit: parliament sends May back to Brussels – what latest amendment votes mean
by Louise Thompson, University of Manchester
In its attempts to find a way out of the Brexit impasse, the House of Commons has...
Prime Minister will visit Scotland later today
The Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Scotland later today aiming to set out how the Brexit deal agreed with the EU protects jobs and trade while providing new opportunities for Scotland’s fishing industry...
Prime Minister’s statement to the EU Council
The Prime Minister Theresa May was in Brussels over the weekend where the other 27 member states approved the Withdrawal Agreement which will outline how the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019.
After...
Letter from Scotland
It looks as though we are going to have a cold and showery Easter weekend. There may even be more snow. So it’s a chilling outlook for April Fool’s Day and there’s much chilling...
Edinburgh Conservatives welcomed Theresa May earlier
Edinburgh politicians stopped campaigning for about 40 minutes today to get down to Granton and hear the message from the Prime Minister.
Nothing much was new. The soundbites were similar to those used all the...
#GE2017 Prime Minister pays a swift visit to Granton
The bus arrived to block the warehouse door and the security gates shut behind that, so unless you had an invitation there was no way you would have been able to see Prime Minister...
Trident missile failure: just how safe is the UK’s nuclear deterrent?
by Robert J Downes, King's College London
The Sunday Times has caused a furore by reporting that a 2016 test of the UK’s submarine-borne strategic nuclear deterrent ended in failure. After the submarine HMS Vengeance returned...
Letter from Scotland
I’ve just come home from a cycling holiday in the North East where we came across Thomas Telford’s remarkable little bridge over the River Spey at Craigellachie. It was built in 1814 and was...