EXC: Peter Murrell faces a fresh legal aid row after his counsel revealed he will be able to repay £400k embezzlement from SNP.
Murrell was granted legal aid last year... @heraldscotland👇
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Unspun: Did John Swinney put loyalty to Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell above the wider interests of the SNP when he failed to listen to concerns about party finances raised in 2021?
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Delighted for our Political Editor @andrewlearmonth for taking home runner up in the Political Journalist of the Year category at the Scottish Press Awards. Amazing achievements all round for team @heraldscotland.
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Strong teamwork yesterday at @heraldscotland (as always) across all our platforms, ending with two striking print fronts - our main book and an eight-page broadsheet election special supplement.
EXC: Reform has suspended its Holyrood candidate in Dundee City West after it emerged he agreed to a seven-year disqualification from acting as a company director over misuse of a taxpayer-backed Covid loan. @heraldscotland https://t.co/KPgwXgccoN
🗳️Holyrood has rejected the assisted dying Bill- but the debate is far from over.
@heraldscotland Unspun: Why lived experience from both sides isn’t a distraction from lawmaking, but essential to understanding how such legislation would work in practice.
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Anas Sarwar has been told to apologise to stroke survivors after he made an inappropriate joke at the end of a press conference today.
Chest Heart and Stroke has said it "diminishes" the suffering of survivors and their families. Story @heraldscotland 👇https://t.co/IoDzEeOM3P
NEW: Brian Whittle becomes sixth MSP to withdraw support for assisted dying Bill.
On current numbers, it’s now effectively 63–63.
In a tie, the Presiding Officer uses her casting vote and by convention backs the status quo, meaning, if numbers above are right, the Bill falls
"It was beautiful. I wish that death for myself. I wish it for anyone who wants it for themselves." Lorna Slater tells MSPs about her father's assisted death in Canada.
Daniel Johnson confirms he will vote against the assisted dying Bill tonight.
By my reckoning, if just one more MSP who backed it at Stage 1 switches, and no one moves from no to yes, the Bill is likely to fall.
Lots of interesting insights from Professor Sir John Curtice during his talk today to the annual conference of the @ScotPropFed.
I wrote about his main findings for @heraldscotland Unspun.
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Jeremy Balfour tells MSPs that disabled people are "frightened" by the assisted dying Bill. "Colleagues, friends, I am begging you to consider what the consequences of passing this bill will be for the most vulnerable in our communities," he says.
During the assisted dying debate, former first minister Humza Yousaf says that a "society that leaves someone with a terminal diagnosis believing that their only options are either to endure intolerable suffering or end their life prematurely, is a society that has failed them".