@theSNP chief executive (2000-2023). @YesScot until Scotland is independent🏴 Pro Europe🇪🇺 Married to @NicolaSturgeon
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🏴❤️🇪🇺 Berlaymont in Brussels right now, @EU_Commission headquarters on message as midnight approaches. #LeaveALightOnForScotland
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Glad to have Mrs M @NicolaSturgeon home early tonight to join the noisy neighbours and me in the #ClapForTheNHS #ClapForOurCarers #StayHomeSaveLives
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“It is so important to keep going, keep smiling and keep hoping. Be strong, be kind and let’s continue to act out of love and solidarity for one another”: @NicolaSturgeon #Covid_19
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🗳 Winners and losers after 48 declarations:
SNP 🆙 +3 seats 🆙 +1.3% votes
Con ⬇️ -2 seats ⬇️ -0.6% votes
Lab ⬇️ -1 seat ⬇️ -0.9% votes
LibDem ↔️ n/c seats ⬇️ 0.7% votes
A handy summary for @BBCNews teams:
SNP ⬆️
Others ⬇️
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“The people of Scotland are getting a bit fed up with Tory prime ministers that we didn’t vote for trying to ignore and talk down Scotland”: @NicolaSturgeon on @RidgeOnSunday #ridge
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BREAKING @NicolaSturgeon confirms 5,085 people have joined @theSNP in the last 24 hours. Stand with us in opposing Tory attempts to rip up the devolution settlement and grab powers from Holyrood. Join here: join.snp.org
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Marking the 72nd anniversary of the NHS, @NicolaSturgeon joins our neighbours in clapping to show support for all staff across health and social care #NHSscot72
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“The @BBC routinely and deliberately cuts out the third biggest party at Westminster from its coverage. It is utterly ridiculous that @theSNP and Ian Blackford is treated this way by the broadcaster”: @KeithBrownSNP
This is the third time in two days that the BBC has cut off their coverage just as the SNP were preparing to respond.
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"We’ve been telling BBC bosses for months that they have a credibility issue with the audience selection process. Nothing has been done to stop far-right and pro-Brexit parties dominating Question Time audiences”: @KeithBrownSNP thenational.scot/news/176484…
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🚌 Day 17 of @theSNP election tour and… 😳 @NicolaSturgeon gate crashes a Hen party on Portobello beach. #VoteSNP
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Big shout out to 573 new @theSNP members overnight. Welcome! Time for Scotland’s voice to be heard louder than ever: joinus.scot
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👋🏼 Bon voyage! Beautiful morning to be setting off on @theSNP tour of Scotland promoting #BothVotesSNP
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🤗 or 💇? @NicolaSturgeon gets personal on her post-lockdown priorities - she's answering YOUR #coronavirus questions from 9am with @EwenDCameron on Clyde 1 👇
radioplayer.clyde1.com/live/
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Needed some fresh air and exercise earlier so after a (physically distanced, outdoor) family visit to Fife, I dragged @PeterMurrell for a bracing walk across the Forth road bridge. The rail bridge was looking majestic as ever.
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“If Liz Truss governs as she has campaigned for PM she will be a disaster”: @NicolaSturgeon on @RidgeOnSunday #Ridge
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Hard to believe both these photographs were taken in the @AECC_Aberdeen Boyd Orr Suite, @theSNP last June and Tories today. A truly versatile space that can hold up to 2,000 😉
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Awesome to see so many people joining @theSNP after the Tory attack on devolution. There’s no better time to show your support too. Join here: join.snp.org
✊ Earlier today SNP MPs stood up for Scotland's Parliament against a Tory power grab. Here's what happened at #PMQs in full.
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✋ STOP.
Don’t take chances, COVID-19 is highly infectious
💭 THINK.
Every day, plan ways to reduce the risks to yourself and others
🛡 PROTECT.
Simple steps can shield us all:
⚠️Keep 2m distance
⚠️Wash your hands
⚠️Don’t touch your face
⚠️Clean surfaces often
⚠️Cover your face
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“Theresa May should resign. We’ve been reminded today that the entire UK has been plunged into crisis and chaos because of a vicious civil war inside the Tory party. It's a disgrace, selfish and self indulgent and the sooner the lot of them go the better": @NicolaSturgeon
Scotland’s First Minister @NicolaSturgeon on Theresa May #brexit
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"Our first preference is to remain in the EU, and the best way of achieving that is to have another referendum or to revoke Article 50. As long as our first preference remains an option, that's what the @theSNP will back”: @NicolaSturgeon #Marr
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“I’m open-minded about interim prime minister, but Johnson must go”: @NicolaSturgeon bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-4…
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Today, the UK government announces a massive increase in its stockpile of nuclear weapons. In stark contrast, @scotgov will incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scots law. #bairnsnotbombs
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@bbcnews: Tories ‘cock-a-hoop’ on 36% in English elections. SNP ‘likely to form next government’ all they can muster for 47% after 14 years in government, an historic fourth term, and all-time record vote tally.
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"Those who disagree with the Prime Minister's deal now have a responsibility to come together and present an alternative, and I'm prepared to play my part in that": @NicolaSturgeon #Marr
"There is no clarity whatsoever about the future relationship with the EU" - Scotland's First Minister @NicolaSturgeon tells #marr the SNP will vote against #Brexit withdrawal agreement
Follow latest developments: bbc.in/2Dnr1bQ
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“Question Time from Elgin this week took an audience contribution from one individual who presented herself as a Remain voter to attack the SNP, who the very next day appeared in the Conservative party election broadcast”: @KeithBrownSNP #bbcqt thenational.scot/news/176495…
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Wow!! Suddenly hits me seeing this @GettyImages photo of the scale of our success in #GE15 - well done team @theSNP!!
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“Whatever future Scotland chooses should be a future not imposed on us but chosen for ourselves”: @NicolaSturgeon #marr
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#OTD 1934: @theSNP was founded at its first annual conference, held on 7th April 1934, in the St. Andrew's Mid Hall (now part of Mitchell Library), Glasgow. #Happy85thSNP 🎂
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#OnThisDay 1929: Winnie Ewing was born. A very Happy Birthday from all in @theSNP family to the only person to have been an MP, MEP and MSP.
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“Just because Liz Truss fears losing the referendum it is not acceptable to gerrymander the rules of democracy“: @NicolaSturgeon on @RidgeOnSunday #ridge
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☎️ Membership line 0131 525 8925 massively busy today.
If you can join @theSNP online, that’d be a huge help.
New members here: join.snp.org
If you’ve a membership number, renew here: snp.org/renew
🛏 No rest for us until you’re all welcomed aboard!
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"If the Tory government is intent on driving the UK off the Brexit cliff-edge, then Scotland cannot - and will not - be in the passenger seat": @IanBlackfordMP i.stv.tv/2TPmofF
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Scotland shines blue, white and red for Paris tonight. #ParisAttacks #solidaritywithparis #ViveLaFrance
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I confess - I bought @NicolaSturgeon the Barbour jacket. What I now want to know is - who bought her the wellies?? #wellygate
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"From the bottom of my heart I want to tell you how proud I am to be here today, there is nowhere I would rather be than here with you": @NicolaSturgeon #Pride
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“It is the first time in Scottish polling history that support for independence has consistently outstripped backing for the Union”: @WhatScotsThink bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-s…
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As England forks out on massive price hikes from today, here’s three ways Scottish households save with @theSNP:
🏠 Council tax £500 cheaper than England.
💧 Water bills £46 cheaper than England.
💊 Prescriptions FREE, not £9 per item with @Conservatives south of the border!
🏥 Prescription fees in England rose by 20p today, to £9 per item.
The SNP @scotgov abolished prescription fees in 2011.
Read @KeithBrownSNP on how @scotgov ensure taxpayers in Scotland get the best deal of anywhere in the UK - with 55% paying less.
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More seats, more votes, more councils won, @theSNP wins Scotland's council elections! 431 councillors and biggest party in 17 of 32 councils
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“The immediate job before us is to try to stop the whole of the UK plunging off the Brexit cliff edge because of ideological divisions within the Tories. I’m prepared to work with others and be a responsible part of doing the right thing”: @NicolaSturgeon bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politic…
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🚨New Scotland Poll with @SamCoatesSky and @SkyNews 🚨
The SNP have increased their lead in Scotland.
Westminster voting intention (changes on 3rd May):
SNP 51% (+4)
Conservative 21% (-4)
Labour 17% (-3)
Lib Dems 5% (+1)
Other 6% (+4)
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“It’s not the Scottish Government who needs reminded to get on with the day job, Westminster doesn’t have one major piece of non-Brexit legislation at the moment”: @NicolaSturgeon #r4today #SNP19 #ItsTime
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Don’t worry @RuthDavidsonMSP, deleted you. Some comedian must’ve signed you up. Tories already doing more than enough to support #ScotRef 😉
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“My fundamental ask is this. Stay at home as much as you can and much more than you normally would. If what matters most to you is spending time with loved ones on Christmas Day, don’t risk that by going out before then and catching Covid”: @NicolaSturgeon
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🚌 All snuggled up and ready for an early start. Polls open 7am. #BothVotesSNP for the experienced leadership of @NicolaSturgeon and an @theSNP government with Scotland at heart
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Busy week for @theSNP member care team. 1,062 new cards stacked and ready for posting tonight📮Go on: joinus.scot #GE17 #VoteSNP
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And lo, I’ve been stood down in favour of a video call with trusted hair stylist Julie McGuire
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“Boris Johnson does not deserve to return to Downing Street because he is a shameless chancer and a charlatan, the like of whom should not be occupying the highest office in the UK”: @NicolaSturgeon #GE2019 #VoteSNP
This Thursday’s election is the most important in most of our lifetimes // @NicolaSturgeon
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UPDATE: Looking more like 105,000 more votes than in 2012.
608,000 first preference @theSNP votes.
Official confirmation expected tomorrow
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#OnThisDay 1929: Winnie Ewing was born. Her portrait hangs in the #ButeHouse drawing room, capturing Winnie at the opening of @scotparl in 1999. She presided that day, saying: “The Scottish Parliament, which adjourned on 25 March 1707, is hereby reconvened”. Happy Birthday Winnie
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Jimmy Sinclair 1912-2020. A proud Fifer, the Desert Rat is captured here holding the medals he did not wear out of respect for his fallen friends. Portrait by @wats67
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Nicola Sturgeon has been re-elected as the First Minister of Scotland by a majority of MSPs at Holyrood. bit.ly/2S5iZ0Y
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Only one thing to say to those who have joined @theSNP in the last 24 hours... a very warm welcome to all 5,000+ of you!!
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🇲🇼 President @LAZARUSCHAKWERA and Minister for Foreign Affairs @EisenhowerMkaka arriving at Bute House earlier. #CeadMileFailte 🏴 #COP26
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🗳 Been there, done that... @NicolaSturgeon and me just #votedSNP to STOP BREXIT and keep Scotland in Europe.
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Holy moly, @WhatScotsThink just summarised Scotland’s election without uttering the words that @theSNP on course to win. Worse than shocking @BBCNews 🤨
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Wow! These fans have gone the extra mile. Happy Birthday @NicolaSturgeon #WEURO2017 #ENGSCO #OurGirlsOurGame #SWNT
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Very busy again on 0131 525 8925.
Please join @theSNP online if you can.
New members join.snp.org
With a member number, renew at snp.org/renew
For those asking, we’ll update on total members once we’ve processed applications.
Going as fast as we can!
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🙌 Big shout out to all those who have joined @theSNP in the last 48 hours. A very warm welcome to all 7,526... so far! Let’s make sure the Tories pay a heavy price for their devo downgrade and Westminster stitch-up. Join here: join.snp.org
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“If the official opposition won't do its job, the real opposition will”: @IanBlackfordMP #Brexit
.@theSNP along with Lib Dems, Plaid and Greens this evening tabled a Motion of No Confidence in the UK government under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act – something Jeremy Corbyn has failed to do.
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📲 Scotland’s official contact tracing app helps you protect yourself, your family, your friends and your community by enabling faster contact tracing. Search Protect Scotland in the App Store or in Google Play and download it now protect.scot/index.html
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Day 3 at @theSNP conference and @NicolaSturgeon to pledge childcare provision 'unmatched' in UK. Allows me to share my fav photo of #SNP17
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“Health and lives are on the line just now, we cannot afford the political chaos we’re seeing at Westminster”: @NicolaSturgeon tells @reallorraine
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We got there - and I’m sure we’ll be talking to each other again by tea time @PeterMurrell! #christmasspirit 😂🎄
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“David Mundell is full of excuses, desperate to save his own skin, knowing that he’s totally shafted Scotland and the people of Scotland. The Secretary of State has failed to protect devolution, failed to protect @ScotParl, failed to protect Scottish interests”: @IanBlackfordMP
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“I am pleased to announce the doubling of the Scottish Child Payment to £20 per child per week - the boldest and most ambitious anti-poverty measure anywhere in the UK”: @NicolaSturgeon #SNP21
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Weak and wobbly on police cuts, dementia tax, Brexit u-turn etc. Laughed at by audience. This isn't going well for PM #BattleForNumber10
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Or more accurately, just over £90,000 since September 2014. The figures for Facebook spending in 2017 by party:
CON £2,118,045.95
LAB £577,542.19
LD £412,329.31
SNP £43,345.44
GRN 18,753.15
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“Unlike the Tories, @theSNP has stuck to rules and never been fined. PM should apologise for catalogue of failures by CCHQ": @PeteWishart
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Big shout out of welcome to our 2,042 new @theSNP members this weekend. You too can help us shape Scotland's future: joinus.scot
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