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James Dornan
James Dornan (born 17 March 1953) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who is Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Cathcart. Early life James Dornan was raised in the Oatlands neighbourhood of southern Glasgow. In 1968 at the age of fifteen, Dornan was involved in a fighting incident with three other boys. One was severely injured, which led to Dornan briefly being charged with attempted murder. Dornan's charge was later reduced to common assault and he received a £15 fine and two years' probation. Dornan did not speak publicly about the incident for fifty-seven years until he was encouraged to come forward in 2025 by the social impact of the TV series ''Adolescence''. Dornan said; "When you're a young man, you do things without thinking of the repercussions and then the repercussions just expand, and everyone is caught up in it." Dornan said he still felt responsible for the incident. Dornan joined the Scottish National Party in 1996 and previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The Scottish Parliament
Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP; ; ) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. Electoral system The additional member system produces a form of proportional representation, where each constituency has its own representative, and each region has seats given to political parties to reflect as closely as possible its level of support among voters. Each registered voter is asked to cast 2 votes, resulting in MSPs being elected in one of two ways: * 73 are elected as First past the post constituency MSPs and; * 56 are elected as Regional additional member MSPs. Seven are elected from each of eight regional groups of constituencies. Types of candidates With the additional members system, there are 3 ways in which a person can stand to be a MSP: * a constituency candidate * a candidate named on a party list at the regional election * an individual candidate at the regional election A candidate may stand both in a const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow City Council
Glasgow City Council (Scottish Gaelic: ''Comhairle Baile Ghlaschu'') is the Local government in Scotland, local government authority for Glasgow, Glasgow City council area, Scotland. In its modern form it was created in 1996. Glasgow was formerly governed by a corporation, also known as the town council, from the granting of its first burgh charter in the 1170s until 1975. From 1975 until 1996 the city was governed by City of Glasgow (1975–1996), City of Glasgow District Council, a lower-tier authority within the Strathclyde region. Glasgow City Council has been under no overall control since 2017, being led by a Scottish National Party minority administration. The council has its headquarters at Glasgow City Chambers in George Square, completed in 1889. History Glasgow Corporation Glasgow was given its first burgh charter sometime between 1175 and 1178 by William the Lion. It was then run by "Glasgow Town Council", also known as "Glasgow Corporation", until 1975. The city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Murrell
Peter Tierney Murrell (born 1964) is a Scottish former political worker who served as Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2001 to 2023. He was married to Nicola Sturgeon, the former leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland. A key figure in the SNP for over twenty years, Murrell resigned his membership in 2023 after being arrested as part of Operation Branchform, a major police investigation into the party's finances. Murrell was subsequently charged with embezzlement in 2024 and appeared in court for the first time in 2025. Early life Peter Tierney Murrell was born in Edinburgh in 1964. He studied at Craigmount High School and at the University of Glasgow. Before entering politics, Peter Murrell was a public relations officer for the Church of Scotland for four years. Political career Early career In 1989 Murrell was elected Membership Convener by the SNP Peterhead branch. In the May 1992 local elections for Banff and Buchan District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2023. She has served as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999, first as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region, and as the member for Glasgow Southside (formerly Glasgow Govan) from 2007. Born in Ayrshire, Sturgeon is a law graduate of the University of Glasgow. She worked as a solicitor in Glasgow before her election to the Scottish Parliament in 1999. She served successively as the SNP's shadow minister for education, health, and justice. Sturgeon entered the leadership of the SNP but later withdrew from the contest in favour of Alex Salmond, standing instead as depute leader on a joint ticket with Salmond. Both were subsequently elected; as Salmond was still an MP, Sturgeon led the SNP in the Scottish Parliament as Leader of the Opposition from 2004 to 2007. The SNP e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Scotland
Police Scotland (), officially the Police Service of Scotland (), is the national police force of Scotland. It was formed in 2013, through the merging of eight regional police forces in Scotland, as well as the specialist services of the Scottish Police Services Authority, including the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency. Although not formally absorbing it, the merger also resulted in the winding down of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland. Police Scotland is the second-largest police force in the United Kingdom (after the Metropolitan Police) in terms of officer numbers, and by far the largest territorial police force in terms of its geographic area of responsibility. The chief constable is answerable to the Scottish Police Authority, and the force is inspected by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland. Scotland is also policed by the Ministry of Defence Police, British Transport Police, and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary within t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Branchform
Operation Branchform was a Police Scotland investigation into fundraising fraud in the Scottish National Party (SNP) that was launched in July 2021 and concluded in March 2025. The investigation concerned allegations that £666,953 raised by the SNP since 2017 specifically to campaign for independence in a proposed second Scottish independence referendum was in part improperly spent on other activities. Operation Branchform precipitated the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland in 2023, and resulted in the prosecution of Sturgeon's husband and former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell for embezzlement in 2025. Described as "the highest-profile scandal of the Scottish devolution era", Operation Branchform lasted for nearly four years, covered the tenures of three First Ministers and two Chief Constables of Police Scotland, and ultimately cost over £2.1 million. The investigation saw the highly-publicised arrests of Peter Murrell, Nicola Stur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Findlay
Russell Findlay is a Scottish politician and journalist who has served as Leader of the Opposition in the Scottish Parliament as well as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party since September 2024. He has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the West Scotland region since 2021. A member of the Scottish Conservatives, he served as the party's director of communications. Journalist career Findlay worked as a journalist for Scottish Television, the '' Scottish Sun'' and '' Sunday Mail''. His investigation into the disappearance of Margaret Fleming was used to help prosecute her killers. He has written three books, one of which is about his acid attack, and co-authored a fourth. Acid attack In December 2015, while working as a journalist for ''The Sun'' reporting on gangs in Glasgow, he was subjected to a doorstep acid attack. William Burns disguised himself as a postal worker and threw sulfuric acid on Findlay before attacking with a knife. Findlay manag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogg ( ; born 24 May 1969) is a British politician, broadcaster and member of the Conservative Party who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset from 2010 to 2024. He served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council from 2019 to 2022, Minister of State for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency from February to September 2022 and Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from September to October 2022. Rees-Mogg previously chaired the eurosceptic European Research Group (ERG) from 2018 to 2019 and has been associated with socially conservative views. Rees-Mogg was born in Hammersmith, London. He was educated at Westminster Under School, Eton College and the University of Oxford where he studied history as an undergraduate student of Trinity College, Oxford, and served as president of Oxford University Conservative Association. He went on to work in the City of London and in Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Webber
Sue Webber is a Scottish Conservative politician who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region since May 2021. Early life and education Webber was born and raised in Edinburgh. She attended Currie High School and the University of Edinburgh. Political career Webber was elected as Councillor for the Pentland Hills ward on City of Edinburgh Council in the 2017 council election. She was the Conservatives' transport spokeswoman in the Council. On 20 November 2020, Webber was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Edinburgh Western at the upcoming Scottish Parliament election. She faced calls for her deselection in March 2021 after WhatsApp messages that were highly critical of COVID-19 restrictions were leaked. On 8 May 2021, she was elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Lothian. She is the Scottish Conservative Shadow Secretary for drugs policy. In the 2024 United Kingdom general election, Webber was the Conservative can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Thomson
Ross Thomson (born 21 September 1987) is a former Scottish Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 2017 to 2019. Thomson was the first Conservative MP elected for Aberdeen South since the 1992 general election, 25 years earlier. He was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region from May 2016 until June 2017. He was elected to Aberdeen City Council in the 2012 local elections. He defected to Reform UK in 2025. Early life Thomson was born in Aberdeen and educated locally at Bridge of Don Academy. He studied Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with a first class MA (Hons) degree in 2009. Prior to entering politics, Thomson worked as a store trainer for department store Debenhams. Political career He stood for the Scottish Parliament at the 2007 elections for the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency, coming third behind Labour MSP Elaine Smith a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RT (TV Network)
RT, formerly Russia Today (), is a Russian State media, state-controlled international news television network funded by the Russian government. It operates pay television and free-to-air television channel, channels directed to audiences outside of Russia, as well as providing Internet content in Russian, English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Portuguese and Serbian. RT is a brand of TV-Novosti, a nonprofit registered Nonprofit_organization_laws_by_jurisdiction#Russia, as an "autonomous non-commercial organization" (ANO) and founded by the Russian state news agency Federal State Unitary Enterprise, FSUE RIA Novosti in April 2005. During the economic crisis in December 2008, the Russian government, headed by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, included ANO "TV-Novosti" on its List of strategic organizations of Russia, list of core organizations of strategic importance to Russia. RT operates as a multilingual service with channels in five languages: the original English-language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Next Scottish Parliament Election
The next Scottish Parliament election is required to be held no later than Thursday 7 May 2026, to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament. It will be the seventh general election since the parliament was re-established in 1999. Six parties have MSPs in the sixth parliament: Scottish National Party (SNP) led by First Minister of Scotland, First Minister John Swinney, the Scottish Conservatives led by Russell Findlay, Scottish Labour led by Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Greens, led by outgoing co-leader Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, and the Scottish Liberal Democrats, led by Alex Cole-Hamilton. Of these parties, four have changed their leaders since the last Scottish Parliament election in 2021. Alba Party, Alba also have one MSP following a defection from the SNP, and John Mason (Scottish politician), John Mason sits as an independent after being expelled from the SNP. Date Under the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020, an ordinary general election to the Scottish Parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
