Ian Blackford:
"Week after week, I've called on the Prime Minister to resign. I've been met with a wall of noise from the Tory benches. I thought they were trying to shout me down, but it turns out 41% of them have been cheering me on." #pmqs
kathryn samson
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kathryn samson
@KathrynSamsonC4
Scotland Correspondent for @Channel4News
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined May 2011
- Nicola Sturgeon is calling for Liz Truss to resign as Prime Minister immediately.
- One senior Tory has messaged me to say they are hearing there might be a statement from Sir Graham Brady first thing tomorrow morning and that the PM has been told tonight. Not confirmed - but there’s a sense of real movement tonight. #DowningStreetParties
- Ian Blackford: 'Every member of the conservative benches must decide is this the man to lead these islands when lives are at stake?' 'It is time for members in this house to act, if he doesn't resign then he must be removed.' #PMQs
- Greta Thunberg on #Marr suggests APD cut on domestic flights is part of a pattern of policies that show climate is not a main priority for Boris Johnson.
- Two @AlbaParty MPs were kicked out of the chamber for protesting about Boris Johnson blocking another independence referendum just ahead of #pmqs I caught up with Kenny MacAskill and Neale Hanvey straight after the Speaker booted them out...
00:00 - It’s been a long day at conference but I’m still excited about this. Many thanks to @susannareid100 @ranvir01 and @campbellclaret for their kind words about my interview with the Prime Minister on @GMB today.
00:00 - Scottish Greens won’t back a vote of no confidence in the First Minister and Patrick Harvie is now calling for members of the Holyrood harrassment committee who leaked to the press over the last few days to be removed as candidates in the May elections.
- NEW: I’m told @PeteWishart has just made a formal complaint to the Met Police calling for an investigation into Boris Johnson over ‘cash for honours’. He’s due to confirm this in the chamber when he speaks during the standards debate.
- You know it is bad when Kirsty Wark says ‘oooooooooft’.“Douglas Ross has always been quite a lightweight figure” Jacob Rees-Mogg MP says the Secretary of State for Scotland “is a much more substantial and important figure in this” #Newsnight bbc.in/3I0s4wB
00:00 - WATCH: @NicolaSturgeon tells me a #Brexit deal which would leave Scotland outside the single market competing for investment and jobs with Northern Ireland would be the "worst of all possible worlds.''
00:00 - 'Please let Scotland be free.' In her maiden speech, the new MP for Airdrie and Shotts @AnumQaisarJaved says the points-based immigration system in the UK is 'flawed' and 'one of the reasons why Scotland needs independence.'
00:00 - Replying to @KathrynSamsonC4Another Tory MP says he’s been told 54 letters are in place and PM is going to contest it.
