Sentences with phrase «scottish liberal democrat»

Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur said the SNP's track record on teacher training «was poor».

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie was delighted his whoopee cushion prank on Jim Murphy paid off.

Scottish Liberal Democrat councillor Susan Leslie hit out at the party leadership for failing to send anyone to the event.

But George Lyon, the Scottish Liberal Democrat Election chairman, said: «It's a sad day in politics when the deputy leader of the Opposition resorts to attacking Government Ministers about the colour of their hair.

Nicol Ross Stephen, Baron Stephen (born 23 March 1960) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician.

Tory leader Ruth Davidson is on +15 with Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie seeing an equal number of respondents satisfied and dissatisfied with his performance.

Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader Willie Rennie MSP and Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Jane Dodds teamed up to appear on BBC Wales» Sunday Supplement to discuss conference, the Scottish and Welsh Government's Continuity Bills and learning from the success of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

The unofficial opening of the contest follows news of the death of former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Lord Russell - Johnston.

A foul - up by the SNP had meant that the nationalist supporters gathered outside cheered Sutch, Boyle and Beckett for five minutes when they stumbled out of Perth City Hall first, while Cunningham was still trapped inside as the OMRLP (and one defecting Scottish Liberal Democrat) conducted the crowd in choral renditions of both «Spot the Loony» and «Let's All Laugh at Labour» (Labour had spent a fortune trying to win the seat for Peter Mandelson's then - aide Douglas Alexander).

First minister Alex Salmond made his pitch to voters, while Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie and Scottish Liberal Democrat MEP George Lyon have also campaigned in recent days.

The Liberal Democrats are stopping the Tories from «doing their worst», Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott has said.

And Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott accused Mr MacAskill of having «dithered» over the choice before reaching a «disappointing verdict».

As of yesterday they've been outflanked on the left by the Scottish Greens (who want an 18p lower rate and 60p upper rate), Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats (who both want a penny increase).

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have a real chance of winning next spring's Holyrood elections, their leader has declared.

Given that Scottish Labour, the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scottish Greens all support increasing tax in some form, the logic of that statement would be higher tax, but then the intent was more political: by tying the other parties (not, one suspects, the Scottish Tories) into the process, Sturgeon is heading off future battles.

The Scottish Labour Party lost forty of their forty - one seats and the Scottish Liberal Democrats lost ten of their eleven seats — all to the SNP.

The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats is the MSP for North East Fife, Willie Rennie, who took up his role in 2011.

This pitch will be delivered by Sir Vince at the Aviemore annual conference of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

Under his continued leadership, the Scottish Liberal Democrats» popularity grew steadily.

He led the Scottish Liberal Democrats in the first election to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999, himself winning the constituency of Orkney with 67 % of the votes cast.

In 1992, he was unopposed in becoming the new leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, succeeding Malcolm Bruce.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats were committed to an overarching principle of federalism throughout the United Kingdom, with the Scottish Labour Party advocating legislative devolution for Scotland and Wales, as had been attempted unsuccessfully in the late 1970s, the Scottish National Party seeking independence.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats (Welsh: Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru) is a political party in Wales and a member of the federal Liberal Democrats, along with the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the English Liberal Democrats.

Given the similarity of their preferred options, the Scottish Liberal Democrats had co operated with the Scottish Labour Party in the Scottish Constitutional Convention to produce a blueprint for a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.

In an outspoken intervention that increases the pressure on Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats, both of which backed Ms Sturgeon, the Prime Minister argued that politicians should support the legislation if they believe in the UK's «integrity», value and future.

«There is nowhere near a majority for independence in the Scottish Parliament,» said Nicol Stephen, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

By contrast the Scottish Liberal Democrats were wiped out losing all their 3 seats.

Our speakers this year include Craig Harrow the Convener of the Scottish Liberal Democrats

Our speakers this year include Craig Harrow the Convener of the Scottish Liberal Democrats The sessions will include: Skivers or Strivers: the causes of poverty...

Following the coalition agreement between the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Labour in the Scottish Parliament, he became Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning.

Labour entered government by forming a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up - front tuition fees for university students as the price for a coalition deal.

After these, Scottish Labour entered a coalition with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, forming a majority Scottish Executive.

In the late 1980s and 1990s it and its representatives participated in the Scottish Constitutional Convention with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Green Party, trades unions and churches, and also campaigned for a «Yes - Yes» vote in the 1997 referendum.

Its critics, including the legal reform group Howard League for Penal Reform in Scotland and the Scottish Liberal Democrats, argue that Scottish ministers are free to extend the franchise in a referendum to any group they wish.

«The Party shall be a federation constituted by the Scottish Liberal Democrats, the Welsh Liberal Democrats / Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru and the Liberal Democrats in England (the State Parties)»

Jim Wallace, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scotland's deputy first minister, said: «I talked to Menzies his afternoon and found him in a very positive frame of mind.

Scottish Liberal Democrats lost over half their seats, with labour picking up most of the seats, while the Scottish National Party increased their representation by 3 seats and remained in second place on the authority.

Scottish National Party and Scottish Liberal Democrats formed a coalition to run the council for the next 5 years.

[2] The Scottish Conservatives made the most gains, replacing the Scottish Liberal Democrats as the third biggest party.

The Scottish National Party and Scottish Labour Party had a small representation each, and the Scottish Liberal Democrats stood four candidates, all of whom were unsuccessful.

[62] Along with Ruth Davidson and Willie Rennie, the respective leaders of the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish Liberal Democrats, and Deputy First Minister Sturgeon, Lamont added her signature to a February 2012 letter urging Glasgow City Council to decline an application by the Scottish Defence League to stage a march through the city.

Charlie Baillie, British National party Willie Bain, Scottish Labour party Eileen Baxendale, Scottish Liberal Democrats Mev Brown, Independent Colin Campbell, TILT Ruth Davidson, Scottish Conservative party David Doherty, Scottish Green party Mikey Hughes David Kerr, Scottish National party Louise McDaid, Socialist Labour party Kevin McVey, Scottish Socialist party Tommy Sheridan, Solidarity John Smeaton, Jury Team

The Scottish Liberal Democrats outline a «pupil premium» designed to close the attainment gap for school pupils in Scotland.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have also singled out education as an important policy area, calling for a «pupil premium» to commit additional funding to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Not exact matches

With results declared from 647 of the 650 constituencies on Friday morning, the Tories had 316, Labour 261, the Scottish Nationalist Party 35 and the Liberal Democrats twelve.

This, although it was not spelled out in the short text of the agreement, meant the Scottish government could set the date of the referendum (provided it took place before the end of 2014), extend the franchise to 16 - and -17-year-olds (a long - standing SNP, and indeed Liberal Democrat, pledge), decide the wording of the question (subject to Electoral Commission approval) and stipulate campaign financing (again, subject to EC oversight).

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

«That's why all our strategy, all our ambition, all our campaigning between now and next May must be for the Liberal Democrats to be, for the first time in our history, the largest party in the Scottish parliament,» Mr Stephen declared.

He defended the coalition's legitimacy by pointing out that the votes received by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were higher than the number cast for the SNP in the Scottish parliament regional list.

The Liberal Democrat MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, accused SNP leader Alex Salmond of «lacking interest» in the powers currently centred at Holyrood, instead only focusing on those not available to the Scottish government.