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The former SNP leader of Westminster has defended Nicola Sturgeon amid her estranged husband's embezzlement scandal casting a ...

Could 2026 see the return of Ian Blackford to frontline politics? That is the talk among Holyrood watchers today. Mr Blackford has been largely out of the public eye since he stood down from his ...

Former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has said he will stand down at the next election. In a statement released this evening, he said he has thought “long and hard” about his decision as he ...

Could 2026 see the return of Ian Blackford to frontline politics? That is the talk among Holyrood watchers today. Mr Blackford has been largely out of the public eye since he stood down from his ...

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The entire cohort of SNP MPs walked out of the Commons on Wednesday after their Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, was expelled for challenging speaker John Bercow during PMQs. Blackford was ...

Ian Blackford, who led the party in the Commons from 2017 until 2022, said the SNP had been in a “problematic” period following a police probe into finances which lead to the arrest and release of ...

Ian Blackford stunned online critics after he came up with a strange explanation for former first minister of Scotland Nicola ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford has spoken of the “affection which the Queen had for Scotland and that Scotland had for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The SNP could ask parliament to consider giving the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds and EU citizens in a Christmas election. Ian ...

Ian Blackford, the Scottish National Party’s leader in Westminster, has announced that he is resigning from the post. Having survived two attempts by his own MPs to remove him already this year, there ...