Lucy Dunn

Is support for Scotland’s euthanasia bill dying?

10 May 2025 2:31 am

While Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill makes its way through the UK parliament, in Scotland a separate assisted dying bill…

Reform looms large for Scotland’s Unionists

8 May 2025 1:39 am

The last twelve months in Britain have seen a general election, leadership contests, council polls, mayoral races and even a…

What was new in John Swinney’s Programme for Government?

7 May 2025 4:00 am

The countdown is on, with only a year to go until Scottish voters cast their ballots in the 2026 Holyrood…

Ash Regan: Scottish politicians have been gaslighting the public for years

6 May 2025 2:51 am

Ash Regan quit Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP government almost three years ago in protest at the former first minister’s controversial gender…

Reform’s next challenge is delivery

3 May 2025 6:30 pm

The Cholmondeley Arms is set just off the main road of the quaint, red-bricked market town of Frodsham. Not that…

Your guide to the 2025 election results

30 April 2025 8:46 pm

Tomorrow, voters will go to the polls in Sir Keir Starmer’s first big electoral test as Prime Minister. Across England,…

Is a Scottish visa the answer to Scotland’s workforce crisis?

26 April 2025 3:10 am

There aren’t many politicians calling for a rise in immigration to Britain at the moment, but you can count on…

How well are Wes Streeting’s health reforms going?

17 April 2025 4:36 pm

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has made a lot of promises about the NHS. Before he got into power, he talked…

Helen Joyce shares her joy at Supreme Court ruling

17 April 2025 1:44 am

The Supreme Court has unanimously backed the biological definition of a woman. Women’s rights campaigners across the country are celebrating…

Parliament recalled to nationalise British Steel

12 April 2025 2:24 am

MPs didn’t manage to enjoy even a week of recess before being ordered back to Westminster. The Speaker announced this…

Could resident doctors go on strike again?

9 April 2025 11:34 pm

As if Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn’t have enough to worry about overseas with Donald Trump’s tariffs, now old tensions…

Are the Scottish Tories becoming irrelevant?

20 March 2025 4:59 am

Another day, another poll that shows Reform could, from a standing start, pick up at least 14 seats at the…

The ‘physician associate’ will see you now…

15 March 2025 9:00 am

There is a war being waged in NHS hospitals. On one side are overstretched junior doctors in understaffed wards. On…

Starmer scraps NHS England

13 March 2025 11:16 pm

It was widely briefed that the main focus of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in Yorkshire today was his plan to…

What does the SNP exodus mean for the party’s 2026 line-up?

6 March 2025 5:01 am

There is little over a year to go until the 2026 Holyrood election and Scottish party selection processes are underway.…

Can Reform land a knockout blow in Hull?

28 February 2025 9:21 pm

It was to a packed-out auditorium that Nigel Farage announced his party’s mayoral candidate for Hull and East Yorkshire on…

Medical students are being let down

28 February 2025 2:07 am

It’s allocation day for junior doctor jobs. Soon-to-be medical graduates across the UK find out what deanery they will work…

Scotland’s education stats pose a problem for the SNP

26 February 2025 3:36 am

The SNP may be outperforming Scottish Labour in the polls, but the party of government still faces tough questions on…

Reform declares war on renewables

13 February 2025 5:24 am

It was in a plush central London office space lined with leafy wall plants that Reform UK chose to make…

Why we should heed warnings about weight loss jabs

1 February 2025 5:00 pm

Embarking on the quest to lose weight can be a risky business. Yo-yo dieting, compulsive binging, muscle wasting and brain…

What’s behind Reform’s surge in Scotland?

19 January 2025 5:05 pm

Five years ago, Reform UK had no presence in Scotland. Its Facebook and Twitter pages emerged during the latter half…

Will Ireland’s fed-up voters punish the Taoiseach in the snap election?

29 November 2024 7:07 pm

Will the elections taking place across Ireland today result in a whole new government? Not really, is the conclusion most…

Now the SNP must prove it can govern

31 October 2024 9:22 pm

In the history of devolution, no Westminster government has ever given Scotland as large a block grant settlement as the…

Robert Jenrick must do more

18 October 2024 8:36 pm

When Kemi Badenoch took to the floor during GB News’s TV Q&A on Thursday evening, the atmosphere in the room…

This is a ten-year plan, says Labour health minister

24 September 2024 6:55 am

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has made a lot of noise about the perilous state of the NHS, insisting the…