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‘India has some of the finest doctors, but there is a palpable lack of leadership’, says Glasgow doctor
Jaspreet Kaur is assistant general secretary at the Glasgow Gurdwara Guru Granth Sahib, and Dr Babu Mukhopadhyay is an NHS consultant who was clinician in charge of a Covid ward last year and is a health adviser to the Scottish government.


UK Indians rush to send help amid India’s Covid crisis
The Disasters Emergency Committee has just extended its appeal to help India get urgently needed life saving humanitarian relief.


Arlene Foster’s leadership ‘should not have survived for this long’, says Belfast journalist
The political editor of the Belfast News Letter, Sam McBride, wrote a book about the so-called “cash for ash” scandal, which brought calls for Arlene Foster's resignation back in 2016.


Arlene Foster to step down as DUP leader and NI First Minister
Northern Ireland First Minister Arlene Foster says she'll be stepping down from the job, and as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, after a revolt from within her own party ranks, especially over her handling of Brexit. 


Labour accuses Johnson of lying over who paid for Downing Street flat refurb
Downing Street today declined to deny suggestions that the Prime Minister received a loan from the Conservative Party that he later repaid.


Scotland elections: a battle for the whole of the UK?
Are Scotland’s elections a battle not just for Scotland, but for the whole United Kingdom?


#NextLeaderofScotland debate: Scotland’s 5 main party leaders
The leaders of the five main parties in Scotland debate ahead of next week's crucial election.


Arlene Foster’s leadership of DUP could be coming to end
Arlene Foster's days as the leader of the Northern Ireland's biggest party, the DUP, could be coming to an end after a number of her assembly members and MPs reportedly called for a vote of no confidence in her.


Northern Ireland wildfires which damaged environment ‘started deliberately’
The large wildfire which raged through the Mourne Mountains in Northern Ireland over the weekend, causing "unimaginable" damage to the environment, was started deliberately, according to officials. 


What Scottish Independence could mean for the Scotland-England border according to experts
With ten days to go until the Scottish elections, the political debate is still dominated by the issue of independence.


Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentenced to another year in prison in Iran
The government has condemned Iran's decision to sentence Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe to another year in prison as “totally inhumane and wholly unjustified”.


Downing Street has become ‘a moral cesspit’, says journalist Peter Oborne
We spoke to Rachel Sylvester, political columnist at The Times and Peter Oborne, former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph


‘We want inquiry that will root out sleaze and cronyism’ – Labour’s Rachel Reeves
Earlier we spoke to the shadow Cabinet Office Minister Rachel Reeves


Boris Johnson denies Covid ‘bodies pile high’ comment
Boris Johnson has denied saying last autumn that he would rather let the "bodies pile high" than have another lockdown after the latest in a series of leaks that have rocked Downing Street.


What next for Wales and the Union as elections loom?
There has been a lot of focus on Scotland's future in the Union. But in Wales, too, the pandemic has brought a new awareness about devolution and discussion about the nation's place in the UK.



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