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The former First Minister was staking his party’s claim with Alba’s Highland manifesto targeting housing, jobs, and independence.
Alex Salmond alongside Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross candidate Steve Chisholm aim win the party’s first seat at an election win.
Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes says she is “delighted that the energy minister has committed to adapting the regulations’.
The timing is uncomfortable for the SNP as it highlights one of its biggest broken promises in the middle of the general election campaign.
John Swinney backed Michael Matheson over a 27 day recommended suspension – on the day of the SNP general election campaign launch.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, on a visit to the Highlands, has told the SNP that it should concentrate on how they have let school children down.
The Westminster hopefuls say ‘the Tory government has finally laid themselves bare to the powers of democracy.’
He says ‘now is the moment for Britain to choose its future’ as opinion polls favour a Labour victory in the next 43 days of campaigning.
As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is meeting the cabinet amid mounting talk in Westminster that he is about to call an election.
He says ‘I can't think of anything in Britain that has really improved. I can't think of a single thing’ but ‘I'm hopeful of change’.
Scottish Secretary Alister Jack confirmed that the UK government is planning a nuclear site north of the border.
The prospect of a return of nuclear power generation to Caithness has been welcomed with open arms by a far north councillor.
Alex Salmond says he is ‘delighted’ someone of his business experience is ‘carrying the Alba Party standard in the Highlands at the General Election.’
John Swinney has been crowned the new leader of the SNP after winning the support of potential contender, Highland MSP Kate Forbes.
Lib Dem candidate David Green says he is not hopeful the government will fix ‘its broken relationship with rural Scotland.’
In less than two years Scotland has had three Prime Ministers and will get its third First Minister – without a vote.
Kate Forbes says the SNP must ‘rewin trust’ but is change possible for a party after 17 years in power?
She says ‘the best way to deliver the urgent change Scotland needs is to join with John Swinney’.
Thurso is in line for a new secondary school and three primaries as part of the newly released Highland Investment Plan worth in excess of £2bn.
Malcolm MacLeod, Kate Lackie and Allan Gunn are made assistant chief executives at the local authority.
