MSPs voice fury today after it emerged Nicola Sturgeon could ‘dodge’ questions about crucial legal advice at her crunch committee hearing on the Alex Salmond row. The First Minister is finally set to be grilled by the inquiry tomorrow, but her deputy John Swinney has been accused of treating Holyrood with ‘contempt’ by dragging his … Read more
Rishi Sunak will need to find £40BILLION a year in tax rises and spending cuts by the middle of the decade if he wants to balance the books in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, says IFS as it warns UK is in ‘uncharted territory’ Institute for Fiscal Studies said the UK economy is in … Read more
Racism and discrimination exist in UK because Britons don’t ‘wholly understand’ nation’s slave trade history, says National Trust academic National Trust published report on links between slavery and Trust properties Rita McLean is chair of a group examining how to act upon the findings In 2007 Ms McLean said: ‘A lot of the problems in society … Read more