More on the PM's first speech to Labour conference as leader here: www.holyrood.com/news/view,an...
@louisewilso.bsky.social😅 the problem with living in an old tenement flat is also that it's genuinely colder inside than outside sometimes.
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@louisewilso.bsky.social@louisewilso.bsky.socialLook, it is simply too early. I will not be bullied into putting the heating on by something as ridiculous as it being cold outside.
@louisewilso.bsky.social@louisewilso.bsky.social"Driving powers out of Whitehall and into every postcode of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England, and closing divides between people and places."
@louisewilso.bsky.socialHe goes on: "So I’m going to use this job to build the kind of Britain my dad wanted to see and fight with everything I’ve got to keep it together. "Not the last prime minister of the United Kingdom, rather the first to rewire it, to make it work for all people and places.
@louisewilso.bsky.social"I don’t think he knew the news at the time, and anyway my dad Roy would have been the first to defend his right to say it. "I relay it because I want you to know how it made me feel: utterly determined to prove him wrong."
@louisewilso.bsky.socialAndy Burnham: "On the day my dad died, the Scottish first minister said I would be the last prime minister of the United Kingdom. I quote that not to seek sympathy nor to criticise John Swinney.
@louisewilso.bsky.social“Success would look like the system recognising where there needs to be clear pathways between the health services, community support, and the non-medical sources of support, and probably a greater funding flow”
What happened to the long-term conditions framework? www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
@louisewilso.bsky.socialDelays to legislation and other policy measures to tackle violence against women have plagued Scotland's mission to it. The government must redouble its efforts. www.holyrood.com/news/view,de...
@louisewilso.bsky.socialA different era.
@holyroodmag.bsky.socialReposted by @louisewilso.bsky.socialJohn Swinney has pledged to tackle violence against women and girls with new vigour, but the government's record so far is patchy, writes @louisewilso.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/news/view,de...
@holyroodmag.bsky.socialReposted by @louisewilso.bsky.social'I was misdiagnosed for five years. There was no support, no help, no treatment' www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
@holyroodmag.bsky.socialReposted by @louisewilso.bsky.socialJohn Swinney has pledged to tackle violence against women and girls with new vigour, but the government record so far is patchy www.holyrood.com/news/view,de...
@louisewilso.bsky.social“To get anything across the line, you needed two other parties to agree with you… Almost every time, that made the decision better.”
An interesting chat with @drscottarthurmp.bsky.social on collaboration in politics, his Rare Cancers Act, and how he became an MP www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
@holyroodmag.bsky.socialReposted by @louisewilso.bsky.socialThe Scottish Parliament has backed a motion stating that Scotland “has a right to decide its own future”.
It was backed by 84 MSPs to 18 against – after Reform MSPs walked out of the debate and refused to take part.
@louisewilso.bsky.social“'I think that’s a great question, Mr Brown,' she replies, careful not to insult him. It wouldn’t look good to have the deputy and the depute at each other’s throats."
My latest sketch www.holyrood.com/comment/view...
@louisewilso.bsky.socialCongrats! I was wondering recently who'd be filling Libby's shoes! You'll be great.
@louisewilso.bsky.socialReposted by @louisewilso.bsky.socialAfter the Pisa results and two bleak reports on colleges and universities, the government response to all this damning evidence of an ignored portfolio has been lacking.
Me for the latest @holyroodmag.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...
@holyroodmag.bsky.socialReposted by @louisewilso.bsky.socialNo part of the system is working as it should, contrary to government claims about the emphasis it places on providing a good education. www.holyrood.com/comment/view...
@louisewilso.bsky.socialAfter the Pisa results and two bleak reports on colleges and universities, the government response to all this damning evidence of an ignored portfolio has been lacking.
Me for the latest @holyroodmag.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...