Dan Barker

Reporter, Scottish Daily Mail
Email: [email protected]

[Michael Blackley @Mike_Blackley]

A majority of Scotland’s MSPs have refused to say whether they are male or female.
The Scottish Parliament now lists the sex of 73 MSPs as “undisclosed”. https://t.co/wDuOdGU7Qs

[Scottish Daily Mail @MailOnlineScot]

🗞️ Wednesday's Scottish Daily Mail front page: Now there MUST be a probe into SNP cash scandal

#TomorrowsPapersToday #scotpapers
👉 Read more on #MailOnline https://t.co/BlmCcW7Fs3

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

There is no legal bar to Sturgeon publishing her written statement. She said she would be willing to do so, pending legal advice. The wait continues … 👇

[Dan Barker @danbarkr]

Read more here: https://t.co/BS94A9WOT5

[Dan Barker @danbarkr]

Police Scotland have released footage of Murrell's no comment interview.

Detective: 'You made that false invoice so you could account for the purchase of a Jaguar motor vehicle through the party's books as something else, that's the case isn't it Peter?'

Murrell: 'No comment.'

[Dan Barker @danbarkr]

The 61-year-old former SNP chief executive will now spend the next five years behind bars after admitting to the crimes.

[Tom Gordon @DMScotPol]

Sentencing Peter Murrell, Lord Young says the 'manner of embezzlement' was 'not particularly sophisticated'.

So much for John Swinney's claim that Murrell only got away with it because he was devilishly devious.

SNP governance plainly inadequate

[Dan Barker @danbarkr]

Disgraced Peter Murrell leaves the High Court in Edinburgh after being jailed for more than five years for embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP.

There was banging from inside the vehicle as the 61-year-old left the building.

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

Eh... Vladimir Putin's special envoy claims he helped to topple Keir Starmer.

Total nonsense - but this is a reminder that the Russian regime exploits division and discontent inside liberal democracies to weaken us from within

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

Has Andy Burnham taken a tie with him to Westminster? I know it's not exactly the weather for ties, but surely there comes a moment when Burnham has to start wearing one again?

[Dan Barker @danbarkr]

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[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

People were promised change. Instead, we got broken promises, rising bills, and more Westminster instability.

The UK is now preparing for its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. People are right to ask, when does this cycle end?

[Michael Blackley @Mike_Blackley]

John Swinney, who is the third SNP First Minister in three years, claims that six Prime Ministers in 10 years makes the case for independence.

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

🔴 Taxpayers face a legal bill of up to £400,000 after the SNP government’s ‘Orwellian’ policy of allowing trans women prisoners to be held alongside biological females was ruled ‘unlawful’

https://t.co/Z54Rn7bj6h

#transgender #trans #SNP #prisons #jails

[Dan Barker @danbarkr]

“Sex segregation in prisons in Scotland is lawful.

“The Prisons Guidance is unlawful and the petitioner is entitled to orders for declarator and reduction.”

[Dan Barker @danbarkr]

Yet another loss for the Scottish Government in the courts.

Lady Ross: “Trans prisoners have rights … but this does not extend to a right to be accommodated in a prison for the opposite biological sex”

[Judges Scotland @JudgesScotland]

Lady Ross has today issued a judgment in the petition for judicial review brought by For Women Scotland.
The petitioners challenged the lawfulness of the Scottish Prison Service’s policy in accommodating some biological men in women’s prisons.

https://t.co/jPOWtcsSlX

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

📢📢 Judgement Day!📢📢
FWS wins in the Outer House of the Court of Session

For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers
Judicial Review of the Scottish Prison Service Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody Operational Guidance.
https://t.co/j5zXBiCqz4

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

⚽️World Cup exclusive: Scotland is set for an economic boost of more than £200million after the national team won its first match in the tournament for more than 30 years 👇

https://t.co/817Fr7cCyH

@ScotlandNT @FIFAWorldCup #worldcup #football #economy

[Scottish Daily Mail @MailOnlineScot]

Shoe-gate! How Sturgeon donated £290 stilettos to an SNP fundraiser...then watched as Murrell bought them for £4,000 .@HRwritesnews

https://t.co/zJaawP3qIj