Weekend rewind: The top 10 Scottish politics stories you need to read
Updated: July 17, 2021, 2:43 pm
Just in time for the weekend, here’s a look at the top 10 political must-reads from the last seven days:
1. Willie Rennie stepping down as Scottish Lib Dem leader
We broke the story this week that the long-time leader of the Scottish Lib Dems is planning to step down. Willie Rennie, who has served for more than a decade in the leadership role, steered his party through two referenda, three general elections, two Holyrood elections, two European elections and two local council votes. As Paul Malik reports, plaudits poured in from his political contemporaries, and we put together a picture gallery of some of the photo-ops he’s famous for on the campaign trail. Read more here.
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has set out plans to end homelessness and the SNP published its environmental manifesto to mark Earth Day, setting out its policies to tackle the climate emergency.
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