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[The SNP @theSNP]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Let’s build a future made in Scotland, for Scotland, by all people who live in Scotland.

📺 That future is in your hands. Vote for it tomorrow. #VoteSNP

[Stewart McDonald @StewartMcDonald]

🧵 I want to take people through my 5 year campaign on democratic oversight of UK special forces, and trying to get the truth from ministers and institutions more interested in covering their backs than public transparency.

A thread… https://t.co/Exjfq9dIy6

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

Time for an independent review of the department’s health and safety systems failures, with root & branch reform placing all MoD personnel at the heart of its agenda.

[The Ferret @FerretScot]

🔴 NEW: Two nuclear bomb bases on the Clyde recorded 174 security breaches over five years, according to information released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Read the full story: https://t.co/shhR8RYU80

[The SNP @theSNP]

📢 @StephenFlynnSNP : "We need to be standing with our veterans. We need to make sure that our military is fully funded and that we have more people serving, and that we look after them when they become veterans."

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"It's becoming ever more clear that it's all over for the Conservative Party," says First Minister of Scotland John Swinney.

He continued to criticise Rishi Sunak's "foolish decision" to leave the D-Day commemorations early.

https://t.co/5Pb9lNvhRc

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[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

An appalling and misguided decision which is an affront to all who served then & since.

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

I cannot attend events like the D-Day commemoration without thinking of my Uncle - Tom Hunter - killed at Lake Comacchio on 3 April 1945, aged 21, and posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. My beloved Mother felt his loss every day of her life. (3/3)

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

An immense honour to represent Scotland at the D-Day commemoration event in Normandy. Many poignant moments including the playing of the Flowers of the Forest by Pipe Major Dougie Warren of the Scots Guards. (1/3)

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

As we commemorate D-Day, we do so with heavy hearts for the lives lost, in the fight against National Socialism and for our freedom.

We remember those who gave their tomorrow’s for our today

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

People are the bedrock of defence and security, whereas Nuclear ☢️ weapons expose the utter lack of investment in the Armed Forces under generations of Westminster Governments.

[The SNP @theSNP]

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[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

The humanitarian catastrophe we are seeing unfold in Gaza is one of the greatest moral issues of our time.

The unimaginable devastation in Rafah must stop. There are no places of refuge for Palestinian civilians.

I reiterate @theSNP call for a full and immediate ceasefire.

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

A profoundly miss judged decision, one with consequences for us all.

#Ceasefire 🕊️

[Deidre Brock @DeidreBrock]

The MoD's answer to my written question has revealed the first 'Category A' safety incident at Faslane in 15 years - meaning likely radioactive release to the environment. This continues a worrying decline in nuclear safety standards at the bases.

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

Czechia has spearheaded an innovative & much-needed response to #Ukraine’s dwindling artillery shell supplies…Eighteen countries have committed, where is the UK ?

https://t.co/NDwCjwsuPI

[SNP Defence @SNPDefence]

@MartinJDocherty on the illusion of #defence investment from Westminster

“There can’t be a real plan because it wasn’t in his budget. If there was, the Office for Budget Responsibility would have got across it and said it’s ‘pie in the sky’.

https://t.co/Doxkdi8dDW

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

Ben highlights the illusion spun for the Tory backbenchers… yet Westminster ignores the catastrophe of recruitment & retention. Money alone won’t solve that no matter who sits in Downing Street. Smoke & mirrors with Nuclear deterrent at its heart cannibalising conventional spend

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

What’s happening in Westminster?

Well, two of the most privileged groups in society are deciding the fate of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

The SNP will continue to vote tonight, at every turn, against the grubby and dangerous Rwanda Bill.

[Martin Docherty-Hughes 🕊 @MartinJDocherty]

Thank you to Chargé d'affaires @UkrEmbLondon for hosting me this afternoon to discuss the defence of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 🤝 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿