How can SNP justify tax grab of 69.5 per cent? Humza Yousaf’s Budget means hard-working Scots now face among the highest marginal tax rates in the world next year

How can SNP justify tax grab of 69.5 per cent? Humza Yousaf’s Budget means hard-working Scots now face among the highest marginal tax rates in the world next year

Tens of thousands of Scots workers will be hammered with one of the highest marginal tax rates in the world next year. An eye-watering 69.5 per cent of earnings between £100,000 and £125,140 will be lost to income tax and National Insurance if the latest SNP tax rises are approved by MSPs. It comes amid … Read more

Rishi Sunak goads ‘high-tax’ SNP as Scots brace for MORE hikes: PM warns separatists over plans being announced in Budget tomorrow – pointing out that Holyrood has been handed RECORD funding

Rishi Sunak goads ‘high-tax’ SNP as Scots brace for MORE hikes: PM warns separatists over plans being announced in Budget tomorrow – pointing out that Holyrood has been handed RECORD funding

By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 13:02 GMT, 18 December 2023 | Updated: 13:02 GMT, 18 December 2023 Rishi Sunak goaded the high-tax SNP today as Scots brace for more hikes to be announced. Humza Yousaf’s party is due to unveil plans to increase the burden further tomorrow as they struggle to fill … Read more

Mystery of the missing migrant children: More than 150 mostly Albanian asylum seekers – the majority registered as teenagers – have disappeared from UK hotels since June and more than 130 have yet to be found

Mystery of the missing migrant children: More than 150 mostly Albanian asylum seekers – the majority registered as teenagers – have disappeared from UK hotels since June and more than 130 have yet to be found

By David Wilcock, Deputy Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 17:32 GMT, 13 December 2023 | Updated: 23:06 GMT, 13 December 2023 More than 130 migrant children who have disappeared from UK hotels since the summer are still missing six months later, a minister admitted today.  Immigration delivery minister Tom Pursglove admitted that just 22 of … Read more

EDDIE BARNES: The SNP is in meltdown after its annus horribilis. So why on earth would anyone actually still vote for them?

EDDIE BARNES: The SNP is in meltdown after its annus horribilis. So why on earth would anyone actually still vote for them?

The first rule of politics is never to blame the electorate. As we near the end of 2023, however, I feel my patience with my fellow Scottish voters begin to fray. It’s been a truly shocking time for our rulers over at the SNP. But as the party’s annus horribilis draws to an end, a … Read more

Ferry funny! Prank by yard workers sets Glen Sannox destination as ship-breakers’ yard in India

Ferry funny! Prank by yard workers sets Glen Sannox destination as ship-breakers’ yard in India

By Dan Barker For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 00:00 GMT, 13 December 2023 | Updated: 00:11 GMT, 13 December 2023 It is known as a maritime graveyard where the world’s obsolete ships go to be dismantled. So it was a surprise when it emerged yesterday that one of the SNP Government’s new ferries appeared … Read more

Schools to get green light to ban mobiles

Schools to get green light to ban mobiles

 Move comes after pupils complained about devices in wake of devastating education statistics By Michael Blackley, Political Editor For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 00:00 GMT, 13 December 2023 | Updated: 00:13 GMT, 13 December 2023 Scotland’s schools will be able to ban mobile phones over concerns they are fuelling a slump in pupil performance. … Read more

Scotland’s loneliest voter: remote hamlet has elector with their own ballot box

Scotland’s loneliest voter: remote hamlet has elector with their own ballot box

By Krissy Storrar For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 00:01 GMT, 13 December 2023 | Updated: 00:10 GMT, 13 December 2023 It is an area known for its picturesque scenery and the seclusion of a rural idyll enjoyed by residents. But come the General Election, one ­person in a remote part of Perthshire will make … Read more

Lord Cameron reads the riot act to SNP chief Humza Yousaf over ‘unauthorised’ meeting with Turkish president on Gaza crisis – threatening to pull Foreign Office support

Lord Cameron reads the riot act to SNP chief Humza Yousaf over ‘unauthorised’ meeting with Turkish president on Gaza crisis – threatening to pull Foreign Office support

David Cameron has read the riot act to Humza Yousaf over an unauthorised meeting with Turkey’s president about the Gaza crisis. The Foreign Secretary threatened to withdraw his department’s support for the Scottish government and kick officials out of UK government buildings in a furious row over the protocol breach. He warned Mr Yousaf – … Read more

A New Labour stalwart who rose to the occasion as Britain faced economic meltdown in 2008: How Alistair Darling led the UK through the credit crunch as Chancellor… before going on to save the Union at the 2014 Scottish referendum

A New Labour stalwart who rose to the occasion as Britain faced economic meltdown in 2008: How Alistair Darling led the UK through the credit crunch as Chancellor… before going on to save the Union at the 2014 Scottish referendum

Alistair Darling is being widely remembered for two things – his wisdom and his calmness in a crisis – following his death at the age of 70. Both of those characteristics were on display when the long-serving Labour MP endured his greatest political test in 2008. With Britain facing economic meltdown amid the global credit … Read more

SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians’ torrid lockdown affair – at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home

SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians’ torrid lockdown affair – at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home

Two SNP politicians were caught having a torrid affair during lockdown after intimate text messages were uncovered on a mobile phone. The bombshell revelations swept through Holyrood today as details of the extramarital fling between the politicians began to emerge. The secret relationship is said to have carried on during the Covid pandemic in 2020, when … Read more