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Reeves to stress commitment to end windfall tax in talks with North Sea bosses

The Chancellor is meeting figures from BP, TotalEnergies and Serica in Downing Street.

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Scrapping windfall tax on oil and gas is ‘utterly essential’, Swinney insists

The Scottish First Minister spoke out ahead of a meeting between Chancellor Rachel Reeves and North Sea leaders.

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More Britons to return from Middle East as airlines boost flights

The UK Government has said it will charter a repatriation flight from Oman ‘in the coming days’.

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Finance Minister: Stormont’s £390m boost recognises NI public service strains

John O’Dowd said the Executive would use the additional funding ‘wisely’ but it also serves as a ‘recognition of the pressures this Executive faces’.

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Iran attack ‘against international system’, says John Swinney

The US and Israel attacked Iran over the weekend, killing its supreme leader.

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Many will be apprehensive about Middle East tensions – Little-Pengelly

SDLP leader Claire Hanna said the UK Government must push for de-escalation.

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UK should resist being dragged into war after Iran strikes, says Labour MP

The UK Government is yet to comment on the strikes.

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New Zealand joins Australia in backing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's removal from line of succession

Spokesman for PM Christopher Luxon: ‘If the UK Government proposes to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the order of succession, New Zealand would support it’

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New Zealand says it would back removal of Andrew from line of succession

The Liberal Democrats will seek to force the public release of files relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s appointment as a trade envoy

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Demonstrators march through London in protest against Iranian regime

The protest lasted for just under five hours.

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Ed Davey challenges Keir Starmer to sue Donald Trump over tariffs

The Liberal Democrats leader issued the challenge at the Scottish Liberal Democrats conference in Edinburgh.

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Grieving father calls for Scotland to pursue driving licence reform

Alan Knox launched his campaign following the death of his son, Lewis, who was among three teenagers from Lochaber who died in a collision on the A830

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Frustration at ‘continuing delay’ over public inquiry into Pat Finucane’s death

Mr Finucane’s widow Geraldine was speaking on the 37th anniversary of his murder by loyalist terrorists.

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British couple held in Iran for 400 days are ‘starving and suffering medical neglect’ behind bars son warns

Joe Bennett has been urging the British government to do more to help his parents trapped in a grisly Iranian prison

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UK steel industry has ‘two months to be saved’, warns Tata Steel

He told Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee that the sector is at threat due to fears of further cheap Chinese imports.

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PM says Government wants to ensure ‘urgency and transparency’ in Mandelson files

Control over which files can be released into the public domain has been ceded to Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee.

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Mandelson-Epstein latest: MPs approve release of files as police ask government not to publish ‘certain documents’

Former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner one of many Labour backbenchers to rally against Sir Keir Starmer’s amendment

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UK Government expects to decide ‘soon’ on Chinese wind turbine factory plan

Ming Yang last year announced plans to build a factory near Inverness.

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More Scottish homes to get automatic help with energy bills

The UK Government also said that the warm home discount scheme will stay in place for the next five winters.

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China deal will cut tariffs on Scotch whisky, Sir Keir Starmer says

The Prime Minister struck the agreement to reduce export tariffs on Scotch from 10% to 5% during his trip to China.

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Swinney blasts Labour’s ‘betrayal’ as Waspi women again denied compensation

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney said it is ‘deeply regrettable’ women who lost out after state pension changes will not be compensated.

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Scotland ‘leading technological revolution’ with AI Growth Zone – Liz Kendall

The UK Government has chosen Lanarkshire as the site of the new specialist zone, which aims to boost the development of data centres and similar.

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Holyrood election must be ‘referendum on SNP’s record’, says Liz Kendall

The UK Science and Technology Secretary was speaking as she visited the site of Scotland’s first AI Growth Zone in Lanarkshire on Thursday.

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AI benefits to be felt ‘across community’, Kendall says as growth zone announced

The latest of the UK Government’s AI growth zones is being sited in Lanarkshire.

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Swinney hits out at ‘glaring weaknesses’ in maritime defences around Scotland

The First Minister said the UK Government has not based ‘a single offshore patrol vessel, frigate or destroyer’ north of the border.

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