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UK Election: Battle for Scotland

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  • Sunday, 15 December, 2019
    ExplainerMarket Questions
    What next for UK markets?

    Financial Times reporters look ahead to the week in markets

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2015
    UK politics & policy
    Carmichael survives legal challenge over leaked memo

    Judges’ verdict rests on whether Scotland’s sole Lib Dem MP acted ‘politically’ or ‘personally’

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2015
    UK politics & policy
    Green light for case against Scotland’s lone Lib Dem

    Party’s only Scots MP faces further questions over leaked memo

  • Friday, 29 May, 2015
    Crowdfunding
    Legal challenge filed over election of Scotland’s only Lib Dem MP

    Campaigners lodge claim in court over leak of Sturgeon memo after crowdfunding drive

  • Wednesday, 27 May, 2015
    Crowdfunding
    Crowdfunding drive to challenge Alistair Carmichael’s election

    More than £14,000 raised for legal effort to void election of Lib Dem MP

  • Saturday, 16 May, 2015
    UK general election
    Scottish Labour leader Murphy to resign after electoral wipeout

    Delays departure in bid to stop unions choosing successor

  • Wednesday, 13 May, 2015
    UK devolution
    Nicola Sturgeon calls for more talks on devolved powers

    SNP leader says proposals ‘do not go far enough’

  • Tuesday, 12 May, 2015
    UK devolution
    Scotland’s powers to be limited to those already agreed

    Minister quashes rumours Tories will offer more in attempt to shore up union

  • Monday, 11 May, 2015
    UK politics & policy
    Eclectic SNP members arrive at Westminister

    As the third-largest party in the Commons, Scottish MPs will take the Lib Dems’ former offices

  • Saturday, 9 May, 2015
    UK devolution
    Sturgeon rallies troops with anti-austerity message for Westminster

    SNP leader dismisses claims party will struggle to live up to sky-high expectations

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    Insurance
    Prospect of separate Scottish tax regime stokes business alarm

    Standard Life directors are preparing to issue a coded warning on fiscal schism

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK devolution
    David Cameron faces huge task to defuse nationalism

    Prime minister raises possibility of a historic shake-up of the union

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    Energy sector
    Bribery, corruption and other ways to curb Celtic nationalists

    The groundswell of support for independence has risen to flood level, writes Roy Foster

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    Brexit
    David Cameron sweeps to victory in UK election

    Scotland rejects England as SNP trounces Labour north of border

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK devolution
    Sturgeon dismisses SNP landslide a mandate for independence vote

    Scottish Nationalists lose clout with Conservative victory

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK devolution
    Signs of radical settlement for Scotland emerge after poll results

    Tories might offer Edinburgh full control over taxes and domestic expenditure

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK general election
    Ed Miliband resigns after worst Labour election result since 1987

    Shadow chancellor Ed Balls loses seat in painful night for party

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK devolution
    General election: A Labour defeat the Tories cannot celebrate

    Scotland is now an SNP country and Scottish Labour is in ruins, writes Iain Martin

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    Lionel Barber
    Pollsters and pundits make the wrong call on UK election

    Nationalism plays a winning hand, writes Lionel Barber

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    John McDermott
    Scottish pride in Britishness fades like the Edinburgh haar

    Scotland has broken firmly with an England that has rejected Labour

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK Election: Future of the Lib Dems
    General election: The key seats

    A guide to constituencies that will give clues to the outcome of the closest UK election in decades

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK general election
    General election: Labour’s Douglas Alexander loses out to SNP

    Douglas Alexander’s defeat to 20-year-old is emblematic of nationalist march

  • Friday, 8 May, 2015
    UK general election
    SNP ends Labour domination in Scotland with election landslide

    Pro-independence party makes sweeping gains as Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy loses seat

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2015
    UK general election
    General election: Scottish Tories claim voter intimidation

    Davidson tweets about ‘burly blokes’ turning people away if they don’t support a certain party

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2015
    Philip Stephens
    Broken parties that may break Britain

    The surge in SNP support has not overturned the outcome of September’s referendum

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