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@ScotTories MSP for North East Region since 2016 & Shadow cabinet secretary for Education and Skills

Aberdeen

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Liam Kerr

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I’m putting myself forward to lead the @ScotTories . With vision, unity and integrity I believe we can plot a realistic path to power and, together, deliver for the people of Scotland. Watch this short video to hear my thoughts and see what I can bring

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Liam Kerr

1 year

Last week Minister Lorna Slater signed some kind of private finance deal, the details of which are unclear. Watch as she attempts to explain. Then marvel that she has no idea what interest rate the bridging loan she refers to is subject to.

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It’s the height of SNP hypocrisy to take chauffeur-driven cars to an environmental summit. Even with a dedicated shuttle bus and ample public transport for Cop26, SNP ministers still took ministerial limos whilst preaching about reducing emissions

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‘Hypocrisy’ of nine SNP ministers who used limos to and from Cop26 summit

Scottish Government's official log of ministerial car journeys for November and December last year has been published after lengthy delays

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Men's Sheds funding is being axed (). My intervention asked the Cab Sec whether the £75k spend on them is a better use of resource than £1.5m per year for 25 civil servants to work on an "independence prospectus". His "answer" is pathetic and shameful

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Tonight, my @ScotTories colleagues and I voted against the introduction of the SNP's vaccine passports. There are many reasons I voted against, including watching SNP googling to find a definition of a “nightclub” mid-debate. SNP-Green #coalitionofchaos forced it thru regardless

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Why is an unelected civil servant put up to speak for and defend Sturgeon, on a party matter using party lines?!

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Jason Leitch tells #BBCGMS the First Minister was without a mask for a "matter of seconds." He adds: "She realises the place is crowded, puts a face covering on, which is actually what we're asking people to do."

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Huge turnout at #DunottarCastle #Stonehaven to see the #PlatinumJubilee beacon lit. Wonderful occasion.

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Utterly incredible: I asked about a ScotGov promise of 28k offshore wind jobs, of which 3k were delivered & what they’re doing about it… Woeful Minister Slater reads a script about an “Offshore Skills Passport”.

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A Minister on top of her brief, introducing Regulations covering a system of fines for failure to comply with DRS, would know where those fines were going. Wouldn't she?! Apparently not.

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Liam Kerr

4 years

This is what passes for robust data analysis in SNP Scotland. Is it any wonder so many of their other assertions don’t stand up to scrutiny.

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2 years

Quite the response from this SNP MSP - apparently the £20million carved out for indyref2 (whilst SNP cut ~8% from local govt, police, prisons, universities & rural affairs) "would not make much of an impact on the police or on local government or on a number of other issues".

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I have a letter from First Minister in which he misleads me & Parliament in writing. The evidence supports that analysis. When challenged he does not deny it. Instead reverts to whataboutery & deflection. Clearly thinks Ministerial Code doesn't apply. Scotland deserves better.

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2 years

This was incredible. A point of order about the Minister’s apparent disdain for Parliamentary Codes… and she walks out.👇

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2 years

Lorna Slater today fled the chamber to avoid listening to Liam Kerr’s point of order, which cited irrefutable evidence that either Slater has misled the Scottish Parliament, or Michael Matheson has misled Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee. (Video part 1/3)

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3 years

So there we have it - even Nicola Sturgeon’s own former energy minister is rightly criticising her for abandoning Scotland's oil and gas industry ⬇️

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1 year

First Minister misled @ScotParl again last week. But he hasn’t even bothered to correct the record from when he did so in early June. The people of Scotland will no doubt draw their own conclusions as to his integrity & suitability for the role should he fail to do so again.

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Spot on @RuthDavidsonMSP “1000s of teenagers, away from home for 1st time...can’t leave their room...some cases, they have to wear a face mask to go to the loo... can’t go home...can’t go out...can’t break their expensive rental agreements...a bloody mess”

Sturgeon locking up students is an outrage

What a bloody mess. COVID cases across Scotland have spiked – with peaks at a number of university towns, with suspected student-to-student transmission fuelling the outbreaks. Who would have thought...

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2 years

Lorna Slater flees Holyrood chamber rather than face 'evidence' she misled Scottish Parliament!

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Lorna Slater flees Holyrood chamber rather than face 'evidence' she misled MSPs

The Scottish Greens minister got up and left to evade further questioning over the discrepancy between her statement – and that of her SNP energy minister Michael Matheson

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Liam Kerr

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Closing the @ScotTories ferries debate today. "Let the shroud of secrecy be swept aside by the light of a public inquiry... and the truth be revealed".

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Liam Kerr

4 years

SNP MPs voted against wording used in #HateCrimeBill . Clauses poorly drafted and ill-considered at the time - nothing has changed. This is deeply embarrassing for SNP & justice sec... again! @ScotTories will stand against attacks on #Freedomofspeech

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Liam Kerr

1 year

The public deserve to know if the FM personally instructed supposedly impartial civil servants to concoct excuses for him, to try and spare his blushes. He must refer himself to independent adviser on ministerial code to decide if he knowingly misled Parl.

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Tories claim Yousaf's 'credibility on the line' over Holyrood cover-up

The Tories have threatened to drag the Scottish Government’s top official into the row over Humza Yousaf misleading parliament unless he agrees…

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2 years

The transport minister told me in committee nationalisation would ensure ScotRail was accountable to her. So does she recognise the concerns of those people who've told us they think she's not taking that accountability?

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Slater told Parl. last week she’d applied already & Alister Jack was “incorrect” when he said she hadn’t. If she only applied today some might feel she’s misled ScotParl…

UK Government to consider 'formal request' on deposit return scheme

THE UK Government is to consider whether to allow Holyrood’s controversial recycling scheme to go ahead after saying it had finally received a…

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Liam Kerr

4 years

Disgraceful & shocking as Sturgeon blames the teachers. Always someone else’s fault with the SNP

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Nicola Sturgeon has said that teachers’ grading of their pupils was “not credible” as she defended the lowering of marks for a quarter of all entries from Scottish students

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Liam Kerr

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📢Today I am launching a campaign to protect our brave police dogs. 🐶 I think it should be a criminal offence to injure or kill a service animal. Superb to meet Police Dog Buddy & his handler Ryan to discuss! #FinnsLaw @SiDix67 @nicola_delta @davewardell @finnforchange

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Spot on from @RuthDavidsonMSP “...when Sturgeon is shouting the odds on TV over the next few days, remember that she’s shouting down measures that ensure people making and selling goods get a fair deal — whether that’s in London or Lanarkshire”

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Sturgeon to crank up grievance machine over Brexit Britain | Ruth Davidson

An almighty fight is brewing between Nicola Sturgeon and the UK Government. So what’s new, you might ask. Seldom does the SNP leader break into the national news unless it’s to decry a UK Prime...

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If an MSP misleads Parliament, they must correct the record. The First Minister seems to believe this doesn't apply to him. But it does. So I've reminded him of his responsibilities.

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4 years

#Aberdeen has been badly let down by the mess of SNPs test & protect strategy. Our hospitality trade has been unacceptably singled out. Businesses have received next to no help. There are systematic failures with the SNPs contact tracing regime & this has been exposed here.

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BREAKING: Aberdeen has been put back on lockdown following a spike in coronavirus cases.

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Bang on from @Jackson_Carlaw : “This analysis shows how what starts with a daily data update soon descends into an SNP party political broadcast. She shouldn’t be doing that, and the BBC shouldn’t be indulging it”

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Tories claim Sturgeon briefings are 'SNP party political broadcasts'

THE Scottish Tories have stepped up their attack on Nicola Sturgeon’s coronavirus briefings, claiming they have descended into "SNP party…

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3 years

The SNP-Green #coalitionofchaos have voted down @ScotTories calls to abandon their devastating £371 million real-terms cut to already insufficient council budgets. Remember this when your roads aren’t fixed, the libraries are closed and the bins can’t be emptied.

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Majority of Scots oppose new hate crime laws, poll suggests. @ScotTories will continue to demand a rethink

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Majority of Scots oppose new hate crime laws, poll suggests

More than two-thirds of Scots oppose controversial measures at the heart of proposed new hate crime laws.

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3 years

The SNP have failed to give Aberdeen £6 million owed for over a year. I asked when Aberdeen will get the money due. I didn’t get an answer.

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3 years

Whilst the people of Scotland brace for eye-watering local government cuts and council tax rises, the SNP spend £700,000 a year of YOUR taxpayer money on indyref2. They’re more interested in separation than governing in the national interest.

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3 years

The message to the SNP on loads of the shop windows on the Royal Mile. Time to listen.

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Liam Kerr

1 year

Asking @LornaSlater about CSL in @SP_NetZero cttee just two days ago. Some might wonder if she misled the committee in some of her answers or whether she’s hopelessly out of touch with her brief. Or both.

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Liam Kerr

2 years

The feeling when listening to a Minister ignoring all the warnings on #DRS #DepositReturnScheme from businesses, consumers, wholesalers, hospitality, retailers etc. Instead she blunders on reading pre-scripted answers which completely ignore questions. Makes one despair indeed

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FM corrects record after I called her out. But it is not enough for the First Minister to merely amend the official record – she ought to stand up in Parliament and apologise for misleading MSPs and the public.

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FM corrects record after claim Scotland's energy provided by renewables

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5 years

My comment piece in today’s Mail on Sunday. “It is clear the SNP has wholly abandoned Police Scotland. The @ScotTories have not. We are committed to funding the police properly”.

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It’s no wonder people are so furious at the lack of transparency, which, as we see again with these revelations, comes right from the heart of the Scottish Government.

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SNP 'cover up' accusations as top minister has name redacted from the document

Untrue renewable energy claims made by the SNP and the uncorrected redaction of a top MSP's name have led some to accuse Nicola Sturgeon's party of a cover-up.

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Liam Kerr

1 year

The First Minister suggested to the Chamber that £500m had been invested in a Just Transition Fund. I'm not sure that's correct and thought it helpful to give the opportunity to clarify matters... Just to make sure there was no misleading of the Chamber.

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ScotGov has spent ~£220k on #DRS so far. The minister setting it up would know how much ScotGov had budgeted for, right? Wrong.

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Third time asking Lorna Slater, the Minister in charge of #DRS what ScotGov has budgeted for #DRS (noting cost of ~£220k so far to taxpayers). Third time she clearly doesn't know. Third time she just read out her script.

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Liam Kerr

5 years

Success for #FinnsLawScotland Now service animals will get protection they need & gratitude they deserve. Congratulations to @K9Finn @finnforchange & all the team & thank you to >56,000 who signed my petition to make this happen @polscotdogs @polscothorses

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Police dog Finn's law to be implemented in Scotland

The legislation, named after a dog stabbed as he chased a suspect, is part of Scotland's Animal Welfare Bill.

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Liam Kerr

3 years

Incredible. How can we expect citizens to respect the rule of law when a government minister is promoting open defiance?

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SNP minister faces backlash after he defends attempt to 'delegitimise' UK laws

Humza Yousaf says he is a "voice of justice" as he defends protesters who forced release of immigrants from Home Office detention

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3 years

Brilliant result here again for @ScotTories !

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3 years

The SNP- doing it differently for the sake of being different. Even if it costs £600k of public money

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SNP declined offer to use England and Wales Covid vaccine passport app to set up their own - now hit with glitches

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1 year

My point of Order that appears to have sent the civil service into such a spin as @staylorish has uncovered…

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1/ @HumzaYousaf recently wrote to @LiamKerrMSP about a correction he’d made to the Official Report, after falsely claiming that Scotland has the majority of the UK’s renewables capacity. Here is what he said at FMQs on 22nd June 2023.

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2 years

Every single person in Scotland is £2,184 better off because we are part of the United Kingdom.

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1 year

Yet another SNP Minister - a Cab Sec this time!- who can’t answer a straight question: “how much of the promised £80m has been paid out by ScotGov”*. Only able to read pre-scripted attack lines from the brief she’s been given & ignore the question. *The answer is, of course, £0.

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3 years

Violent crime has surged in Scotland but more than half of those responsible are avoiding prison sentences. @ScotTories say the SNP are letting them "off the hook."

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Nearly half of violent criminals in Scotland are avoiding prison sentences, figures reveal

The figures prompted claims the SNP are letting violent criminals "off the hook"

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Liam Kerr

3 years

The SNP-Green Government has, once again, delayed the Deposit Return Scheme 👇

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3 years

Another potential blow to motorists from the SNP- these kinds of proposals could discourage the return to town and city centres & jeopardise the recovery & businesses

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Liam Kerr

3 years

Exactly this from @Douglas4Moray Yet again @RishiSunak has delivered.

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Liam Kerr

2 years

The SNP Govt's 2013 recycling target is 50% of household waste. Statistics relating to 2020 show only 42% was so recycled; lowest since 2013. When will Scotland reach the 2013 target? Minister doesn't even an attempt to answer that question. Just reads pre-prepared script.

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Liam Kerr

4 years

The SNP, Labour , Liberal Democrats and Greens voted to give criminals in jail the vote yesterday. Only @ScotTories will stand up for victims of crime.

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Liam Kerr

3 years

It is shameful to hear a Scottish Govt minister cheering on potential job losses that would actually hurt our ability to meet #netzero targets.

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Patrick Harvie claims only 'hard-right' extremists back future oil drilling

HOLYROOD minister Patrick Harvie was accused of insulting oil workers after claiming only “hard-right” extremists back future drilling. The Green MSP was also claimed to be “cheering on job losses”…

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Liam Kerr

3 years

This is exactly the right approach from @ScotTories and @Douglas4Moray

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Douglas Ross MSP

3 years

Let’s get around the table @AnasSarwar & @willie_rennie The SNP & Salmond's party are aiming for an independence super-majority. Let’s meet the new threat of indyref2 with an equally strong response. We're still Better Together, so let’s work together. You have my letter👇

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2 years

The priority for the SNP-Greens should be securing Scotland’s energy supply and protecting the livelihoods of Scottish workers by taking the common-sense approach of backing North Sea #oilandgas .

Nicola Sturgeon's SNP warned off even MORE wind farms in energy crisis

Operators spark backlash by demanding minsters ramp-up turbines amid fears the countryside is already saturated.

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Liam Kerr

4 years

Delighted MSPs voted to bring in #FinnsLawScotland . Great day for #TeamFinn @K9Finn #FabulousFinn & Service Animals. Well done to all people- & animals!!- who campaigned & thanks to ~57000 who signed my petition! Also school kids across #Scotland who wrote & fought. #Delighted !

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1 year

FIFTY TWO THOUSAND people in #Aberdeenshire in the #NorthEast will be hit by the SNPs plans to raise Council tax by a staggering 22.5%!

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Concerns as proposed council tax increases of up to 22.5% would impact around 52,000 households...

A north-east MSP has slammed the SNP government for proposing council tax increases of up 22.5% which would impact around 52,000 households in Aberdeenshire.

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My thoughts on @GBNEWS with @MartinDaubney on my discovery that the SNP felled 15.7 million trees to develop wind farms…

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'Astonishing is the right word and it is probably shared with the Scottish public.' Scottish Conservative MSP, Liam Kerr, reacts to the SNP admitting to felling 15.7 million trees to develop wind farms. 🖥 GB News on YouTube

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1 year

Cabinet Secretary for Energy says he’s not responsible for… er… energy.

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SNP Energy minister claims he's not actually in charge of energy

Scottish Government cabinet secretary for Fair Work, Wellbeing Economy and Energy Neil Gray refused to comment on whether he believed that new oil and gas fields should be created in the North Sea.

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Liam Kerr

2 years

SNP are all over the place when it comes to energy. Sturgeon repeating false claims around renewables is deeply concerning. Time to back our #NorthSea #oilandgas industry & the nearly 100k jobs associated, like @ScotTories do, for energy security & response to cost of living

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Liam Kerr

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Defending the Budget, Ms Gilruth affirmed the SNPs free education policy, saying: ‘I am not going to walk away from my government’s commitment.’ Mr Kerr hit back: ‘No, but you’ll abandon the university sector.’

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University cuts mean young Scots will ‘pay price of SNP’s failure’

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Liam Kerr

2 years

This is the just the latest example of hypocrisy from a Minister in this SNP-Green coalition, who are all too happy to lecture the public to change their habits, without doing so themselves.

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Liam Kerr

6 years

Very pleased the SNP have seen sense and are to introduce #FinnsLaw There must be as little delay as possible and rest assured I will be monitoring that closely! @Finnforchange @K9Finn

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Liam Kerr

2 years

Questions over whether this was appropriate use of Covid funding - designed to help hard-pressed businesses cope with pandemic pressures. The SNP must come clean if this money was sourced from UK Covid business support consequentials & if so, why they thought that appropriate

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Liam Kerr

3 years

Appalled to see Labour join with the SNP & Greens in opposing any further oil & gas investment. It’s clear that only the @ScotTories are standing up for those who live and work in the #NorthEast .

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9 months

If only someone had warned the SNP-Green coalition in speech after speech and several articles that the inevitable consequence of the SNP’s nationalisation would be fare hikes. Oh yes, so I did.

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4 years

35,600 people furloughed in #Aberdeen ; 36,400 in #Aberdeenshire . @ScotSecofState : “UKGov is now supporting more than 930,000 jobs in Scotland, 1/3 of the workforce”, “we have allocated ScotGovt an extra £6.5 bn of direct funding”. Massive support from @UKGovScotland @RishiSunak

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More than 35,000 people furloughed in Aberdeen, new statistics show

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3 years

The SNP/Green coalition is looking more reckless by the day. The Greens don’t hide their outright disdain for the North Sea oil and gas sector. Countless other business sectors too will be worried at the economic damage the Greens could cause.

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Greens want to pull plug on North Sea oil industry, Sturgeon is warned

In an interview unearthed by Telegraph, Green co-leader Lorna Slater says Scotland's oil and gas sector should be shut as soon as next year

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1 year

I have written to Anas Sarwar asking for clarity on Labour’s position on #NorthSea #OilandGas . The industry’s immense resources, skilled workforce and entrepreneurialism are integral to a transition. This sort of ill-informed policy from Labour jeopardises our net zero future

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4 years

Brilliant to hear that @ScotTories pressure forces John Swinney into screeching u-turn on schools opening in August. Well done @jamiegreeneUK leading on this and all the constituents, parents and teachers who have been in touch and added their voices.

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I wrote to Cabinet Secretary @AngusRobertson more than 2 weeks ago asking him why he “knowingly misled foreign officials” and whether he’d refer himself to the independent standards body. I have yet to receive a reply. Zero common courtesy. Typical disrespect for fellow MSPs.

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📮I wrote to the Foreign Secretary @JamesCleverly more than 2 weeks ago asking him to withdraw his guidance to UK missions abroad to obstruct Scotland’s international work. 📭I have yet to receive a reply. 👎🏼Zero common courtesy. Typical disrespect for Scotland.

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Liam Kerr

5 years

I asked for a ministerial statement this week on the SNP's mismanagement of the police but couldn't have it for lack of time. Instead, thanks to the SNP and the Greens we got a debate on flags. Raising this point was, apparently, "self-indulgent".

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Liam Kerr

3 years

Only @ScotTories will stand up for #oilandgas as the SNP Green coalition threaten 100,000 jobs.

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Liam Kerr

3 years

This is what met our staff at our vandalised office this morning. Disgraceful. Public money will be wasted on cleaning this up. Our excellent staff shouldn’t have to put up with this nonsense.

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Liam Kerr

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My petition to protect our brave service animals from attack in Scotland has over 40,000 signatures! Consultation starting soon by @MairiGougeon who I’m sure won’t let us down! Will you add yours? #FinnsLaw @Finnforchange @SiDix67 @OliverHealdUK @K9Finn

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Liam Kerr

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Now more than ever, Scotland deserves so much more than the SNP, their misrepresentations, their groundless assertions and their woeful record of delivery.

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Liam Kerr

4 years

Correct @Douglas4Moray : “The last thing that Scotland needs right now is another independence referendum and we know that a majority of Scots agree”.

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Douglas Ross tells Tories: End defeatism over the union and we can stop SNP

The Scottish Conservative leader will address a fringe event at the UK party conference.

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Liam Kerr

4 years

Utterly depressing confirmation of what “matters” to this SNP MSP.

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Liam Kerr

7 months

‘Asked if she believed the figures in the EIS Aberdeen report: "Well, I haven't looked at the specifics of the EIS report from Aberdeen."’. Shocking, disrespectful & deeply worrying. The Cab Sec’s inertia & hand wringing must stop. Teachers need action now

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'Complacency': Gilruth admits she hasn't read report on violence in schools

The SNP's education secretary has admitted she has not read an alarming report about violence in schools.

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Liam Kerr

5 years

Enjoying #Finn on #bgt #BGTFinal2019 ? Then let’s get #FinnsLawScotland in place NOW! Sign the petition & make it happen @K9Finn @finnforchange @SiDix67

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Liam Kerr

4 years

This is not normal. Really sinister though.

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Thousands of Scots to 'Clap for Nicola Sturgeon' on her 50th birthday

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Aberdeen bus gates: Footfall plunges by more than 500,000 amid ‘perception city centre is closed for business’. Slow hand clap to Cllrs Allard and Yuill- destroying our great city of #Aberdeen one ill-thought-through, unevidenced policy at a time.

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Aberdeen bus gates: Footfall plunges by more than 500,000 amid 'perception city centre is closed...

"Bear with the change in Aberdeen city centre," First Bus Scotland managing director Duncan Cameron said. "To make an omelette you need to break eggs."

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Liam Kerr

4 years

This is vile & contemptible. Both the original abuse and the further response from an SNP councillor towards @AndrewBowie_MP . Utterly shameful. This must stop.

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Liam Kerr

4 years

The #HateCrimeBill is a terrifying attack on #Freedomofspeech We must resist and defeat the SNP's latest attack on our freedoms. @ScotTories will do so.

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4 years

#HateCrimeBill is a terrifying attack on #Freedomofspeech . UN legal analyst, eminent QC & even SNP queuing up to warn against it. Self-censorship inevitable. Justice Sec already shown he neither understands nor accurately remembers his own drafting. SNP facing humiliation again

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Liam Kerr

4 years

The “5 times lower” claim trotted out repeatedly has no evidential basis according to the Office for @StatsRegulation . Surely the SNP didn’t just make it up then present it as fact. Surely they’ll provide a robust evidential basis soon...

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Liam Kerr

11 months

Universities have made it clear that the SNP’s arbitrary cap on the number of places offered to Scots each year means that they are forced to turn away talented young people

Tory plea to ministers to lift cap on Scottish student numbers for universities

In 2021-22 there were 18,280 first time undergraduate international students who came to Scotland from outside of the European Union – with this total up from 6,000 in 2007-08.

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Liam Kerr

5 years

Great news. It's time to move on. Let's build a prosperous nation; one where the divisions of the past are left in the past. I'm proud that the @ScotTories will always defend the Union 🇬🇧

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Today I have written to Nicola Sturgeon. The Scottish people voted decisively to keep our United Kingdom together, a result which both the Scottish and UK Governments committed to respect. Let's make 2020 a year of growth and opportunity for the whole of the UK 🇬🇧

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Liam Kerr

3 years

The SNP-Green Coalition is already hitting the #NorthEast and threatening thousand of jobs. @ScotTories warned bringing them into govt would damage the economy, investment and confidence and cost jobs.

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Liam Kerr

3 years

Yet another example of the SNP failing to deliver ⤵️

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£100m jobs scheme fails to pay out SINGLE PENNY

A £100million SNP jobs scheme pledged by Nicola Sturgeon is yet to release any funds for projects almost a year after it was promised.

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Liam Kerr

3 years

14 years of failure from the SNP

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For 14 years, it has been nothing but failure after failure from the SNP 👇

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Liam Kerr

4 years

There is no threat to devolved powers. There is no power grab. There will be huge transfer of powers to Holyrood. The SNP know that... but why let something awkward like the facts get in the way of a #falsegrievance

Alister Jack: 'No threat' to devolved power in post-Brexit laws - BBC News

The Scottish secretary says claims of a devolution power grab in the legislation are "scaremongering".

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Liam Kerr

5 years

This is a real victory for @K9Finn @finnforchange Dave Wardell & all supporters. We are delighted #FinnsLawScotland will be implemented. Now service animals will get protection they need & gratitude they deserve. @polscotdogs @polscothorses

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Liam Kerr

5 years

We need #FinnsLaw in Scotland now so our service animals have the same protection! My petition has over 55,000 signatures! Will you add yours? #FinnsLaw @Finnforchange @SiDix67 @OliverHealdUK @K9Finn

Man who stabbed police dog in Stoke-on-Trent jailed under new law - BBC News

Daniel O'Sullivan attacked police dog Audi in a "plainly premeditated" attack, the judge said.

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Liam Kerr

1 year

Following yesterdays news on CSL, the #DRS scheme administrator, this session in which Lorna Slater assures us "CSL have the funding... they have been funded" & confirms she doesn't know the nature of the £9m of taxpayers money invested in CSL by the SNIB, is interesting.

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Liam Kerr

3 years

Today @ScotTories pledge to repeal everything in the SNP's #HateCrimeBill that threatens fundamental rights leaving only what works. Backed by Labour, Libs & Greens, this fundamentally flawed Bill will become law. Your party vote in May, will help @ScotTories change that #SCC21

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Liam Kerr

5 years

Delighted to have been appointed @ScotTories Deputy Leader. Ready to get stuck in to support @Carlaw4Eastwood and continue exposing Nicola Sturgeon's failing record in Holyrood.

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Liam Kerr

2 months

A report in @timesscotland on how I’ve written to Holyrood’s standards committee after John Swinney & Kate Forbes repeatedly made claims I’d told them were false. Interestingly I don’t appear to have received the letter from the FM to “correct the record”.

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Rules on false statements must be tightened up, says MSP

The Conservative MSP Liam Kerr has complained about repeated claims by senior SNP figures about Scotland’s energy production

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Liam Kerr

2 years

DRS- has the SNP-Green coalition looked at the impact on inflation & consumer behaviour of adding up to 40p per unit? That’ll be a “no” then.

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