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The move would mean half of Scotland’s entire electorate, rather than just a simple majority, would be needed in order for Scotland to secede.

For a role long seen as a poisoned chalice, it is perhaps refreshing that someone appears to actually want to be appointed as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

Union leaders say whoever enters No 10 next week must take issue seriously as two women make allegations

NIO minister Conor Burns said there was ‘no reason’ for the DUP not to be in government at Stormont.

Mike Clancy, head of the Prospect union, said the election of a new prime minister is an ‘opportunity to reset the culture’.

Sometime during the last decade I fell through the strange middle-aged crack in the pavement where Radio 4 becomes life’s background noise. As the radio dial sticks, your mind’s rhythms bend to a polite mix of boarding school voices, reasoned debate, Westminster gossip, weird panel shows and a rural soap…

LAST week the Scottish Government released their yearly Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) report, the most intensely discussed set…

Next PM must ‘clean up’ system, says Prospect union amid fresh allegations

Former ministers describe UK government as devoid of understanding of issues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Party leaders met with the head of the Northern Ireland civil service at Stormont Castle on Thursday.

The union is in a fragile state, with Sturgeon pushing for a fresh referendum and EU relations frayed over the NI protocol