#snp-manifesto

#snp-manifesto

The late Séamus Brennan, the former Fianna Fáil minister, had a famous tale about his time as government chief whip.

Justice Shaina Leonard found the potential for 'irreparable' harm to the treaty relationship between First Nations and the Crown and blocked election officials from certifying the separatist petition for one month.

The power-sharing coalition's principal parties, Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist party (DUP), are locked in chronic feuding that has severely hindered legislation and governance, creating a perception of drift and neglect.

A group of TDs is informally consulting with senior ministers, including Dara Calleary, Darragh O'Brien, and Jim O'Callaghan, regarding a potential no-confidence motion against Micheál Martin.

Jane Dodds has promised to protect the NHS by investing 300m in social care, extra help for childcare, and to ensure that 'not a penny' is spent on moves towards Wales leaving the United Kingdom.

Gerry Adams allegedly stated to a fellow republican that he was prepared to 'wade up to my knees in Protestant blood to a united Ireland', a claim made in the early 1970s.

Malcolm Offord stated that the joke was intended to be 'funny through being edgy and shocking', but he acknowledged that it made attendees uncomfortable and he 'instantly regretted it'.

This idea that I became obsessed [with gender recognition reform] to the exclusion of everything else is just a nonsense thing that some of my opponents say.

Current liabilities far exceed both cash at hand and projected income. I wish to place on record my grateful thanks to the membership for their efforts for our party and for our cause. It has been a privilege to work with them. We can be proud of what we sought to achieve and also the support which we gave to our founder in his time of need.

This was a big, bold intervention from Anas Sarwar - to be the first leading Labour figure to call for the prime minister to go. He has done so out of frustration and anger. Anger at the prime minister's handling of the Mandelson mess. He said on Thursday that the Labour peer should never have been considered for the job of UK ambassador to Washington.

Around 5,000 seats across 136 local councils will now be up for grabs, following the government's U-turn on council election delays. Ministers had granted 30 authorities permission to delay elections until May 2027 - including five areas where polls had already been put back from May 2025. But in February, the government said those elections would go ahead in May this year, following legal advice in the wake of a challenge from Reform UK.

He urged moderate unionists no longer represented by the Tories and rational nationalists no longer represented by the SNP to find common ground in their support for Reform, but dismissed any prospect of a second referendum on independence in the medium term. I say no to the distraction of another referendum, for at least another 10 years, without ruling one out in the future, he said.