Investigation is continuing just now, that has been difficult for the snp, hard for people to move past that. There was a lack of progress, of course, on independence. A number of people who have criticised a strategy that Nicola Sturgeon pursued, that Hamza Yusuf pursued as well, her successor, and of course Nicola Sturgeon was such a successful politician. She resigned quite suddenly and was replaced by Hamza Yusuf as her predecessor, who had a short time as First Minister and of course, he did not have the support at holyrood in the chamber i do not have enough mps to get things through. So there were a minority government, they had lost their Partnership Support so he had to go. John swinney is now coming in, trying to address a lot of those problems, a lot of those problems beyond their control, such as the police investigation. 0ther control, such as the police investigation. Other problems, when it comes to delivering, for example, Government Advisers here quite candid, say, yes
First muslim to be appointed to the Scottish Government, he worked as a political adviser before becoming scottish justice political adviser before becoming scottishjustice secretary. Mp political adviser before becoming scottish justice secretary. Mp for nine years, elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2016 and party leader a year ago when he set out a path to achieving welsh independence, the leader of plaid cymru, adam price. Jonathan bartley, co leader of the green party in england and wales, co founder of a christian think tank had co founder of a christian think tank ha d rece ntly co founder of a christian think tank had recently arrested during the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in the city of london. And city trader, former leader of ukip, mep for 20 years, he led the campaign for 20 years, he led the campaign for a referendum on the uks bishop of the eu, leader and founder of the brexit party, nigel farage. The uks membership of the eu. There are only three days to go, and s
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Crossing the English Channel yesterday. As youve just heard, the home secretary , suella the home secretary, Suella Braverman, described the incident as a tragic loss of life and confirmed shed chaired a meeting with Border Force Officials immediately afterwards , as campaigners also say, the incident was an appalling and preventable tragedy. Kate marsh, whos manager and support coordinator at the migrant charity samphire , says there charity samphire, says there are, however, safe and legal ways for migrants to come to the uk. Not a lot of people do know what the options for safe legal routes are, but of course we use humanitarian visas with the ukrainian situation. People were brought here safely and legally, never having to navigate the asylum system or get into a small boat so it can be done. We do have mechanisms available, but theyre very, very narrow and they dont catch everyone that is allowed to be here. So its we know now that nothing is going to work. Nothing is going to det
Europes first black leader, after winning the welsh labour leadership election. The outgoing First Minister, mark drakeford, will step down from the post next week. Mr gething was born in zambia and is a former solicitor. In his acceptance speech, he highlighted the historic nature of his win. Today, we turn a page in the book of our nations history. A history that we write together. Notjust because i have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any european country, but because a generational dial has jumped too. Like ken and jane, devolution is not something that i have had to get used to, or to adapt to, or to apologise for. Devolution, welsh solutions to welsh problems and opportunities, is in my blood. It is what i have always known through my adult political life and that is the same for a growing number of our citizens and i want us to use this moment as a Starting Point for a more confident march into the future. A march into the future on behalf of a generation that,