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| Canon proposes reforms | | 12:45am Saturday 12th May 2007 | | The newly-elected Scottish Parliament needs to build up an internet-based People's Chamber to sound out detailed public opinion on its proposals, according to one of the architects of devolution in the 1990s. | | Reader comments (12) |
| Margo MacDonald in presiding role offer | | 12:01am Thursday 10th May 2007 | | The chances of Margo MacDonald becoming Presiding Officer when George Reid steps down next week became increasingly likely yesterday. |
| Key players for Nationalists | | 12:01am Wednesday 9th May 2007 | | John Swinney led the Scottish National Party through some of its most turbulent electoral times, but he is now at the heart of the team preparing to form a government. | | Reader comments (17) |
| Problem of Reid’s successor | | 12:49am Tuesday 8th May 2007 | | With only a day to go before the new crop of MSPs are supposed to elect a Presiding Officer at Holyrood to succeed George Reid, a strong candidate for the post has yet to emerge. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Why maths and magic number of 65 will decide power | | 12:29am Monday 7th May 2007 | | Analysis: There's been much talk of moral authority. But in the horse-trading now at play in deciding the future of Scottish government, morality is the least of their concerns. After the eye-wateringly tight results on Friday, democracy is about something much simpler - arithmetic. | | Reader comments (10) |
| MSP wants polling on separate days | | 12:04am Monday 7th May 2007 | | The Scottish Parliament should take urgent steps to make sure future council elections are held on a different day from Holyrood polls, according to a member of the commission set up to advise on the voting system. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Grasping the thistle | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Alex Salmond yesterday staked his claim to become Scotland’s next First Minister as the SNP became the largest party at Holyrood. The historic achievement ended 50 years of Labour dominance in Scotland. | | Reader comments (204) |
| Brown’s home patch can no longer be counted on | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Mid-Scotland and Fife:The SNP gave Labour a bloody nose in Chancellor Gordon Brown’s home patch of Mid Scotland and Fife with a series of impressive wins. |
| Labour left out in the cold by rout in north constituencies | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Highlands & Islands: The Labour Party no longer represents any Holyrood or Westminster parliamentary constituency in the Highlands and Islands following the SNP’s dramatic capture of the Western Isles yesterday. |
| Goldie ‘very proud’ of Tory campaign | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Conservatives: Annabel Goldie yesterday insisted she was “very proud” of the Conservatives’ election campaign, despite the number of seats the party holds at Holyrood falling. |
| McConnell’s future hangs in balance | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | The future for Mr McConnell and the Scottish Labour party is uncertain. Last night, Labour was putting on a brave face. Will he still be in post once the days, if not the weeks, of horse-trading to establish a governing party at Holyrood have been endured? | | Reader comments (13) |
| Shocked Greens demand to see ballots | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Greens: The Green Party yesterday demanded to see spoiled ballot papers across Scotland after their tally of MSPs was cut from seven to two. |
| Sheridan bows out with a blast at ‘electoral farce’ | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Solidarity: He has always been the outsider of Scottish politics. But yesterday, for the first time in 15 years, Tommy Sheridan reconciled himself to time away from the fray of elected life, even if only for the foreseeable future. |
| Labour MP and CPA candidate reported | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | John Robertson, Labour MP for Anniesland, has been reported to the procurator-fiscal following ugly scenes which marred Glasgow’s election counts. |
| River City continues to run red | | 12:14am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Labour managed to retain control of Scotland’s biggest local authority. For decades, the city has been dominated by Labour, with the opposition parties amounting to little more than a flea on the backside of an elephant. |
| Labour’s bastion remains intact | | 12:13am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Labour lost overall control of one of the councils in its heartlands yesterday while still emerging as the biggest party. |
| Labour biggest casualty as fallout from new voting system grows | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Scots Councils: Labour's grip on local politics has loosened significantly after the party lost overall control of all but three of the councils it previously dominated and the SNP emerged as the major beneficiary of the new voting system. |
| Coalition on cards as Morgan cannot go it alone | | 12:01am Saturday 5th May 2007 | | Wales: The prospect of a return to a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition appeared on the cards last night after Rhodri Morgan, the First Minister, admitted his party did not have enough seats to govern alone. |
| Tories’ hopes of revival premature | | 12:22am Friday 4th May 2007 | | The Conservatives suffered a setback and surprise gain in the South of Scotland this morning, failing to take their top target, holding their most marginal constituency and winning a Borders seat from the Lib Dems. | | Reader comments (4) |
| Fog grounds Western Isles count | | 12:38am Friday 4th May 2007 | | The results of one of the key election battlegrounds were last night delayed by fog, which prevented a helicopter collecting ballot boxes from parts of the Outer Hebrides. |
| Officials visit voters over ballot chaos | | 12:35am Friday 4th May 2007 | | Two ward elections to Argyll and Bute Council were plunged into chaos last night as poll officers were forced to drive to the homes of residents to get them to vote again following a ballot mix-up. |
| From a £500,000 cheque to a visit from London | | 12:37am Friday 4th May 2007 | | Analysis: Mr Blair and Mr Brown were big enough political beasts to take on Mr Salmond. That they came north, carrying the baggage of the Iraq war, cash-for-peerages, factionalism and mid-term blues was a risk Labour’s strategists reckoned they had to take. | | Reader comment (1) |
| Labour in for ‘horrible night’ in England | | 12:19am Friday 4th May 2007 | | Labour was in for a “horrible night”, Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative leader, predicted as the first results for English councils came through in the early hours. |
| No cosy deals, SNP warns councillors | | 12:05am Thursday 3rd May 2007 | | Nationalist councillors have been warned not to be rushed into coalition deals simply to secure extra pay for senior posts, as party headquarters seeks to keep control of post-election horse-trading. | | Reader comments (9) |
| Canadians should look out for Scottish Election | | 1:48pm Wednesday 2nd May 2007 | | Carved in the stone of the outside wall of the Scottish Parliament building, is "Work as if you lived in the early days of a better nation" with the quotation attributed to the great contemporary Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. |
| Wall-to-wall coverage you just can’t miss | | 12:08am Thursday 3rd May 2007 | | What will be your own Portillo moment tonight? Perhaps you dislike SNP leader Alex Salmond, so you long for a pratfall in Gordon. Or you are not a fan of the current state of the NHS and would like to see Health Minister Andy Kerr toppled in East Kilbride. |
| Blair heading for a ‘kicking’, say Nationalists | | 12:25am Wednesday 2nd May 2007 | | Scotland will tomorrow give Tony Blair "one hell of a kicking" the SNP boasted yesterday but the Nationalists were swiftly condemned by Labour for being triumphalist and displaying an "ugly arrogance" by taking Scottish voters for granted. | | Reader comments (33) |
 | Grey area: why age concerns us all | | 12:01am Wed 2 May 07 | | Election Focus: Free care for pensioners was a pioneering policy. Helen Puttick asks how well it has translated into action – and what is next on the political agenda for our senior citizens? | | Reader comments (2) |
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