EXCLUSIVE

Keir Starmer joins calls for 🇬🇧 military budget to increase to 2.5% of GDP.

He tells i newspaper: 'On defence spending, obviously we want to get to 2.5% as soon as resources allow that to happen.'

Read the full story: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Thanks to @scottishlabour team out in Westacres tonight. Thank you also to whoever put up the rope swing that kept my kids occupied while I was knocking doors!

Mairi McAllan was made Economy Secretary in early February but hasn't yet found the time to meet workers at Scotland's largest industrial site, despite the looming closure of its oil refinery.

I fought the law and I WON! After being subjected to a humiliating ordeal in court by my rapist’s defence lawyer, I started the arduous process of submitting a complaint. I had to study the law, compile it all myself, facing off against a team of lawyers… and it’s been upheld!

Vitold Ashurak, Mikalai Klimovich, Ales Pushkin, Vadzim Khrasko, Ihar Lednik, and now Aliaksandr Kulinich have all died in Belarusian prisons for opposing the regime. For many political prisoners held incommunicado in #Belarus , it is unknown whether they are dead or alive.

Where in East Ren are we knocking tonight?

2 polls in one day showing Labour ahead of the SNP.

The change Scotland needs is in the grasp of Scottish voters.

Lowest % EVER to say independence.

Which issues would most determine how Scots' would vote in a UK General Election? (6-7 April)

The Economy 58%
The NHS 54%
Immigration 30%
Education 20%
Housing 20%
The Environment 17%
Scottish Independence 15% 👈

redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/scottish-indep…

Starmer leads Sunak by 21% in Scotland.

At this moment, who do Scottish voters think would be the better Prime Minister for the UK? (6-7 April)

Keir Starmer 43% (-1)
Rishi Sunak 22% (-2)

Changes +/- 10-11 March

redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/scottish-indep…

Astonishingly, the Tories spent over a quarter of the overseas development budget just bailing out their own failed asylum system.

It’s sticking plaster politics at its worst, bad value for money, and no way to manage a budget or the Home Office.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Yet another poll projection showing it neck and neck between Labour & the SNP here in East Ren. The Conservative vote has completely collapsed.

'Trump's Republican Party treats Ukraine as the enemy and Russia as a friend. Defining that stance as isolationist is lazy and wrong. It is actively pro-Russian.' My column on America's moment of truth in Ukraine. ft.com/content/98f37c…

EXC: Download figures for the SNP Government's independence papers have slumped since Humza Yousaf became First Minister.

The first one attracted 78,571 views.

The 11th paper has racked up 3,168.

dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…

Where in East Ren are we knocking today?

Comes as no surprise to any Labour act knocking doors around Scotland. The coalition of voters Sturgeon stitched together has unraveled into disappointment and the Tory vote has utterly collapsed.

🔺New poll shows Labour pulling away from the SNP as Yousaf says a vote for Greens in general election would be wasted

thetimes.co.uk/article/cbbc16…

SNP group has lost a member in East Ren.

Wishing Muslims in Scotland, the UK and around the world a heartfelt Eid Mubarak!