Peter Murrell, the SNP luminary’s estranged husband, pled guilty to embezzling party funds at grand scale. The post Scotland’s Sturgeon Snared in Spendthrift Spouse’s Sleazy Scheme appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Scotland’s Sturgeon Snared in Spendthrift Spouse’s Sleazy Scheme Peter Murrell, the SNP luminary’s estranged husband, pled guilty to embezzling party funds at grand scale. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) “Farthest fall the virtuous with feet of clay.” The nationalist former first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, and her husband, Scottish National Party CEO Peter Murrell, dominated Scottish politics for a decade and arguably came close to breaking up Britain. Their project ended in ignominy Monday, as Murrell was led in handcuffs from the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, where he had pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 of SNP funds. There is a special irony…Open
In the UK today, questions of identity and culture drive political change. The post The British Turn Their Backs on Labour appeared first on The American Conservative .
The latest local elections confirmed what opinion polls had been suggesting for a good while: the collapse of the Labour Party and the extraordinary unpopularity of its leader, Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Up and down the country, from urban to rural, metropolitan to suburban, or Celtic to Saxon, the British people turned their backs on the Labour Party less than two years after it won a landslide victory at the last general election. Reform UK will be able to claim a victory – though perhaps less dominant than they hoped – the Conservative Party continued to suffer losses throughout the country, and the ascendant Green Party have emerged as a real force on British left, albeit not as strongly as some expected. Since the results,…Open
The sentencing of Jordan Linden, a former Scottish National Party (SNP) council leader convicted of multiple sexual offenses, comes a day before critical elections for the Scottish government
. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A former Scottish National Party (SNP) council leader was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of multiple sex offenses, including sexual assault and inappropriate communication with young men and boys. This comes just ahead of crunch elections to the Scottish Parliament—roughly equivalent to a U.S. state legislature—on May 7. WHEN & WHERE: The sentencing took place on Wednesday at Falkirk Sheriff Court in Scotland. DETAIL: Jordan Linden, a former leader of North Lanarkshire Council, has been convicted of 10 sexual offenses . Linden’s offenses span a 10-year period between 2011 and 2021. Over the course of several years, multiple investigations were conducted into…Open
Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. The post Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage Starmer Survives a Palace Coup, But for How Long? Labour still has irresoluble internal faults. UK Special Coverage It is an old adage in war and politics that, if you’re going to take out your leader, you’d better not miss. You also need to be sure that the politicians who’ve said they’ll support you in a palace coup are serious people. Unfortunately, the Scottish Labour grandee, Anas Sarwar, failed on both counts. Yesterday he voiced what many Labour MPs have been saying privately for months and called openly for the beleaguered Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. “Too many mistakes,” he said. “The leadership needs to change.” He was referring to the crisis that has engulfed Number 10 since the…Open