Sentences with phrase «snp politician»

When SNP politician Angus MacNeil first asked the police to investigate allegations peerages had been offered for secret donations to Labour, few believed the affair would go very far.

The SNP politician said that England is now a bigger market for Ireland than it had been before, and unemployment in the UK is now higher than it ever was in Iceland since the crash.

There was also evidence of justice secretary Michael Gove cosying up to the SNP politician in the Commons chamber, just hours after his success in the Private Members» Bill ballot.

Labour MP Dennis Canavan was not allowed to call SNP politician Donald Stewart a traitor in 1976.

In the light of that snp politicians being accused of «terrorist sympathisers» and furthering the causes of terrorism for being against bombing Syria seems somewhat odd and, well silly.

SNP politicians were lining up to lay into Green, with Martin Docherty - Hughes leading the charge:

That, however, may be revised downwards as many of those whose ages are currently unknown will be SNP politicians, who are likely to be younger.

Not exact matches

Sturgeon is paying tribute to Angus Robertson, the SNP's Westminster leader, who lost his seat last night: «A politician and parliamentarian of immense stature who week after week held the prime minister to account.

Politicians from the Conservatives, Greens, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, SNP and UKIP all sang the praises of the Citizens» Assemblies and called for more public participation in politics.

In this case there is some potential for the SNP to play a wider role in British politics, to articulate a general sense that Westminster politicians do not represent the periphery.

Patrick Grady, the SNP MP for Glasgow North, said Scotland's other national drink gave politicians «sustenance».

He concluded: «Our message is clear, on May 6 don't just vote for another politician, elect another champion with the SNP.»

British politicians were unaccustomed to coalition politics, and the Liberal Democrats came under fire from Conservative and SNP opponents who claimed they had «sold out» their principles.

Both the SNP and Plaid Cymru have backed the campaign and high profile politicians such as Jeremy Corbyn and Natalie Bennett have also lent their support.

They're still nationalists, so they'll vote with the SNP on all the issues that matter, but it reveals a crack in the portrait of Salmond as a crafty and successful British politician — the man who could build a majority in a political system specifically designed to prevent them.

Jeremy Corbyn is the Labour leadership candidate most feared by the SNP, one of the party's leading politicians has told TP.

However, opposition politicians have criticised the SNP's focus on independence.

Jeane Tennent Freeman OBE MSP (born 1953, Ayr)[1] is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

The SNP MP joins a chorus of politicians and campaigners on both sides of the Irish Sea who have called on Brokenshire to publish all donations from 1 January 2014.

Ed Miliband has described SNP leader Alex Salmond as a «formidable politician», and pledged for change in the way the country is governed.

There are too many Labour politicians (step forward, Ed) who are indistinguishable from Lib Dems or Conservatives (or Greens or the SNP or Plaid Cymru) in that they have never had a job outside politics or the media or practising law, and hardly any Labour MPs have had manual jobs or office / secretarial jobs... this disconnect has meant that politics at national and local level seems simply to be the public arm of yet another middle class «profession».

That could be a tonal miscalculation — voters like politicians to work together — but it was repeated by Nicola Sturgeon at Holyrood and Stewart Hosie, the SNP deputy leader and Dundee East MP, at Westminster.

Philippa Whitford, who joins 55 other SNP MPs in Westminster, the vast majority of them first - timers, was interviewed by the Guardian when she first announced her candidacy and made a prescient comment: «What strikes me is that, if we pull it off, this is going to be the most non-political group of politicians Westminster has seen for a long time.

[1] The Scotsman's Euan McColm wrote that although Lamont was given greater autonomy over Labour in Scotland, her Westminster colleagues «restrained» her attempts to develop a devolution policy, and her debate on universal benefits resulted in the SNP portraying her as «a politician dedicated to seizing from the people that which was rightfully theirs».