SNP Westminster leader
@StephenFlynnSNP
just called Scottish Tory leader
@Douglas4Moray
"a wee daftie" in the House of Commons.
Flynn also accused Ross of "chuntering from a sedentary position".
Madness that SNP minister Mairi McAllan said on BBC Radio Scotland this morning that she didn't know who Andrew Neil is.
When asked about Neil saying Scottish independence is dead for a generation, McAllan said: "Andrew Neil, I'm trying to think who exactly that is."
Exclusive: Kate Forbes said in 2014 letter that women should not be church ministers as God does "not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man" within the church.
Her team confirmed that she wrote it and still holds the same views.
SNP MP
@ChrisLawSNP
called the Tories and Labour “two cheeks of the same arse” during Prime Ministers Questions.
Was asked to be careful about his language by the speaker, so corrected it to “bottom”
After a great year at the Telegraph, I'll be joining
@Daily_Record
in January as their Westminster reporter. Very excited to work in the Houses of Parliament and cover UK politics from a Scottish perspective. Anyone who's up for a coffee or has any tips, please DM
At a time when Scottish Labour think they may have a chance of winning back left-leaning voters in the central belt, I'm not sure they'll want to be associated with the Tories.
The SNP has announced that Stewart Hosie is the party's campaign director for the general election.
Why have they chosen an MP who is standing down to run the campaign?
EXCLUSIVE: Twenty female Afghan medical students will be allowed to come to Scotland to take up university places after being stopped from doing so for over a year.
EXCLUSIVE: The UK Government gave Canary Wharf £16,000 per head more in additional funding than Scotland in the Spring Budget, according to SNP analysis.
I was joined by East Kilbride and Strathaven MP
@JoaniReid
for the first of the Daily Record's Meet the New MPs series.
Here are some of the quick-fire questions that I quizzed her on.
I am on the business desk at
@Telegraph
for the next fortnight. If you have any stories you can drop me a DM or email them to andrew.quinn
@telegraph
.co.uk
#journorequest
The moment where Penny Mordaunt had a go at the Scottish Government for giving Scots "somewhere safe and warm to take heroin".
Pretty crass given that Scotland has the worst drugs deaths in Europe.
SNP Home Affairs spokesperson
@alisonthewliss
has called on the UK Government to provide support to the more than 1million people who are excluded from key benefits due to their immigration status.
Journalists on either side of the Renfrew Ferry unite in an attempt to hold the powerful to account.
Feel very lucky to be learning from Mark, who is one of the best investigative journalists in the country.
I was joined by my predecessor as the Record's man in Westminster
@Torcuil
for the second episode of Meet the New MPs.
We discussed who the best-dressed person in Westminster is, but in a bold move Torcuil dismissed
@alangemmell
as a contender.
For context: Forbes was hitting out at a female Church of Scotland minister who said that sexists should leave the Kirk.
The Church of Scotland has had female ministers since 1968.
Stephen Flynn just asked Rishi Sunak if it hurts him “that the Labour Party believes in Brexit more than he does”.
Quite a few laughs in the press gallery
I've been working at
@newsandstar
in Carlisle for over a month now. I've managed to write some good local stories, but I think this one is my favourite so far. I interviewed a Spanish Civil War refugee who came to Cumbria in the 1930s.
I was joined by Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP
@ChrisMurrayMP
for the third episode of Meet the New MPs.
Chris weighed into the Best Dressed Scottish MP debate
@Torcuil
finally got a mention, but he faces stiff competition from
@imogenwalker
.
I am on home news at
@Telegraph
for the next fortnight. If you have any stories or tips, send them over to andrew.quinn
@telegraph
.co.uk or drop me a DM
#journorequest
I am on loan at
@heraldscotland
for the next three months. If you have any Scottish tips or stories, my DMs are open or you can email me at andrew.quinn
@telegraph
.co.uk
#journorequest
She also blasted "culturally sensitive, historically contextualised and feminist-power arguments."
She added: "My femininity is not a cultural, social or religious construct. It is a God-given mandate... too often women are under phenomenal pressure to become men."
Astonishing footage of a man wielding a chainsaw and chasing police through the streets of Paisley. One officer told me ‘it’s literally the scariest thing I’ve ever seen’
My first hat-trick in 16 years as I selflessly put myself up front for the Lobby football team today.
Labour will be running scared ahead of our match next week.
A historic moment today as the Lobby XI played its first ever FA-sanctioned game against
@LibDems
.
A fantastic turnout of seven MPs for the LDs.
The Lobby ran out 8-0 winners at Brighton’s training ground - goals from Quinn (3), Tami (2), King (2) and Rajab.
Labour next week.
Former Scottish Labour MSP
@Neilsocialist
said Starmer's actions "are neither democratic nor socialist."
He accused the UK Labour leader of sacking
@LabourRichard
"at the behest of corporate donors and unelected members of the House of Lords."
Not really surprising.
Labour isn't focusing on Tory-held seats (other than SNP defector Lisa Cameron's East Kilbride) because it won't win them.
The party is targeting urban SNP seats in the central belt, rather than rural Tory ones in NE and south.
My third front page for the Daily Record. Sunday will mark six months to the day since I joined. Maybe the craziest six months in Scottish politics that there's been
A good strategy should reflect the current situation and involve a clear plan to achieve your aim.
If the aim is independence - the SNP strategy of continuing to beg Westminster for a referendum is foolish.
It’s a failed strategy that is failing Scotland.
Only Alba are
First Minister Humza Yousaf: "The SNP will oppose Labour’s aggressive tax plans for the sector ... Don’t get me wrong, we support a windfall tax but Labour’s plans to increase this to pay for nuclear energy power plants in England is plain wrong."
It's not often that you get to interview one of your favourite musicians, but I recently got the chance to do that.
Thanks for chatting to me
@lizziereidmusic
.
If Humza Yousaf wins tomorrow, Scotland's two parties which win the majority of the working-class vote (SNP and Labour) will be led by private schoolboys. But the leaders of the three more traditionally middle-class parties (Tories, Greens and Lib Dems) are all state-educated
£10,500 was spent on sparkling wine were sold in House of Lords bars in the 108 days following Liz Truss' mini-budget which crashed the economy.
The SNP's
@TommySheppard
said it shows "how out of touch the Westminster system is with working families"
Exclusive: Humza Yousaf said Rishi Sunak wouldn't budge on a second independence referendum and the blocking of Scotland's gender reform laws when the pair met on Monday.
I am doing my history dissertation on the effects of the closure of the Linwood Talbot plant in 1981 and am looking for ex-employees to interview. If anyone is up for it, or you know someone that might be, please let me know. Please RT!
#dissertation
#oralhistory
#journorequest
A council which advises the DWP is "considering" whether there is a link between football and dementia, a UK Government minister has said.
Came during a debate led by
@Ianblackford_MP
My spread in today's paper. Many Scottish firms are still struggling due to labour shortages caused by the UK leaving the EU. Part of
@Daily_Record
's Broken Brexit series this week.
LABOUR WIN TWO IN PARTICK EAST/KELVINDALE
Labour only won one seat here in 2017, but took another in a by-election
The Greens and SNP hold.
I make SNP and Labour neck and neck now
Had my first meeting with new
@JSchofieldTrust
fellow
@AndrewJQuinn97
yesterday ahead of our year’s mentoring partnership. Think you’re going to hear a lot about this young reporter, who’s just about to start at
@Daily_Record
as its new Westminster corr…
In the latest edition of what I have just dubbed Quinn's Questions, I spoke to
@IanMurrayMP
after PMQs today.
He told me: "The issue of independence and another referendum is so low down the priorities of the Scottish people. So low down it's barely registering."
In what is the first of hopefully many video interviews with MPs, I spoke to the SNP's
@ChrisStephens
after PMQs today.
He said that "The Labour Party is making similar mistakes that they did in the lead up to the 2015 election".
In the House of Commons today
@ChrisStephens
and
@DavidLinden
called the UK Government's anti-strike laws "extreme" and an "assault on workers".
@GavNewlandsSNP
blamed the Conservatives for making regional economic inequality worse.
Quite impressed by that contribution from Lorna Slater.
She said there is enough wealth in society but that rich folk are hoarding it and calls for a wealth tax.
First round of applause from the audience on
#bbcdebatenight
Stephen Flynn urges Rishi Sunak to apologise for including Scottish Nationalists in a list of extremists.
Sunak refused to do so and said the SNP is “a threat to the very fabric of the UK”.
#pmqs
The big fixture in London this weekend is not Chelsea v Arsenal, but Hapoel Tel Agraph (
@telegraph
) vs
@UKLabour
at Battersea Park at 8pm tonight. Hope that Keir Starmer is ready to be nutmegged by the Paisley Pirlo
Friday's Herald
THOUSANDS of households face soaring mortgage payments after interest rates were hiked to the highest level in 13 years, further fuelling a cost-of-living crisis that will leave the average Scots family more than £2,100 a year worse off.
#TomorrowsPapersToday
Exclusive: Hospitalised David Duguid set to miss out on £15k in redundancy after Douglas Ross selection row
But Douglas Ross will receive redundancy payment if he loses on July 4.
I spoke to
@gregorpoynton
for the latest episode Meet the New MPs.
He told me the funniest Scottish MP is
@blairmcdougall
, but he would say no more than "his style isn't dry".
A story I have been covering this week has been a bit overshadowed by the Queen’s death: Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old black man who did not have a firearm on him, was shot dead by police in south London
#Breaking
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has launched a homicide investigation into the death of Chris Kaba, 24, who was shot by armed police in Streatham Hill, south London, on Monday
So pleased to be launching a new politics show for the Mirror!
Watch Party Games every Monday at 6pm on the Mirror’s Youtube page
Starting April 29 - join me for some fun and games!
Too right, so many guys saying they don't like her because she's arrogant yet they wank over the uber-vain Ronaldo. Muhammad Ali was extremely cocky but that made him one of sport's greatest ever personalities, at least Rapinoe makes things interesting
On this Day 2007
James McFadden
France 0-1 Scotland
Where did you see it live? I didn't!
Holding in a piss, Diarra hit a shot over Gordon's bar, so I ran to the pub toilet for a piss, safe to go surely?!
1 Gordon goalkick later 😳😳😳
Exclusive: Tory ministers have been accused of "slamming the door shut in the face of the world’s most vulnerable women” after the UK Government said it "cannot commit" to allowing 20 Afghan medical students to study in Scotland.
My story on the front of tomorrow's Record.
The UK Government is refusing to give 20 female Afghan trainee doctors visas to study in Scotland even though they have been offered places at Scottish unis.
Tomorrow's Daily Record front page leads on brave Afghan trainee doctors trying to escape Taliban persecution who have had their Scottish visa bids blocked.
#TomorrowsPapersToday
#scotpapers
@hendopolis