Harriet Cross MSP has called for Labour’s new inheritance tax rules to be scrapped, warning that it will exacerbate the ...

LABOUR MPs abstained as the SNP won a vote in the Commons today calling for compensation for Waspi women. Stephen Flynn used Parliament’s ten minute rule to introduce a bill which would force the ...

New Scottish Conservative leader leader Russell Findlay is elected to replace Douglas Ross. He defeated rivals Meghan Gallacher and Murdo Fraser. The death of former first minister Alex Salmond ...

The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said he “can’t control” people defecting to Reform UK after his most senior councillor in the country’s largest local authority joined Nigel ...

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A leading Scottish Conservative councillor has defected to Reform UK, just days after his party leader Russell Findlay admitted he feared an exodus of his members to Nigel Farage's party. Thomas Kerr, ...

A profile on the Scottish Tory website says Mr Kerr first ... “Thomas was also the Conservative by-election candidate in Rutherglen, where his focus on local priorities resonated with many ...

The Scottish Conservative group leader on Glasgow City Council has defected to Reform UK. Thomas Kerr, who represents the Shettleston ward, was first elected as a 20-year-old in 2017 and became Tory ...

The Scottish Conservative group leader on Glasgow City Council has defected to Reform UK. Thomas Kerr, who represents the Shettleston ward, was first elected as a 20-year-old in 2017 and became ...