WESTMINSTER has certainly been gripped by fever in recent days.
ON Wednesday evening, I caught up on our SNP team at Westminster holding the latest Deputy Prime Minister’s feet to the fire – after Dominic Raab was sacked for his inappropriate behaviour towards junior staff and civil servants.
THE SNP and I both share April 7 as our respective birthdays. At the end of last week, I turned 38, while the party is a spritely 89 years old - and I have been reflecting on what the founders of the SNP, and those involved in the early days would be thinking in terms of just how far we have come as a political party, and a movement.
MY late grandfather, Mohammad Yousaf, came to Scotland 61 years ago.
I WAS delighted when last year’s SNP Conference unanimously agreed on measures to increase the diversity of our Holyrood candidates. As well as the conference motion passing, we have had positive statements of intent in relation to increasing the diversity of our parliamentary group from our party leader, deputy leader and business convenor – as well as many others right throughout the ranks of the party.
CONFRONTING hate crime is central to building the safer, stronger and inclusive Scotland that we all want to see.
THE Hate Crime Bill aims to create a careful balance that supports and protects our shared freedoms. Over the past week, I have read in detail the concerns raised about the implications of the Bill – particularly around freedom of speech.
