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Libby Brooks

Libby Brooks is the Guardian's Scotland correspondent, based in Glasgow

1 July 2024

  • Campaigners hold signs including 'Sunak sucks' and 'save trans lives' at a demonstration in support of trans rights

    Campaigners lament ‘completely off’ UK election discussion of trans issues

    Trans people ‘being used as a political football’ with heightened mainstream and social media coverage
  • John Swinney on the campaign trail at Portobello Beach and Promenade last week.

    Election fight between Labour and SNP is still on, says John Swinney

    Scottish voters may steer clear of Labour, which will adopt Tory austerity, and ‘opt for independence’
  • Sarwar and Starmer clapping

    Parties keen to capitalise on SNP woes in Scotland, but for different reasons

    SNP fears resurgent Labour, while Starmer seeks credibility and Lib Dems eye status of third biggest party in Commons

June 2024

  • PM again declines to say whether he told Craig Williams in advance about his decision to hold the election in July

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak cites ‘confidential’ inquiry as he refuses to answer questions over aide and election date bet – as it happened

  • Kemi Badenoch David Tennant

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    David Tennant should have been more respectful when criticising Badenoch over LGBT views, says Starmer – as it happened

  • Kevin Craig (right) pictured with Labour leader Keir Starmer.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK general election: suspended Labour candidate says he regrets betting on Tories to win in his constituency – as it happened

  • Rishi Sunak.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak defends decision not to take immediate action against Tories in betting scandal – as it happened

  • JK Rowling agrees to meeting with Labour about gender transition policy

  • Wildcat kittens born outside captivity in Cairngorms a ‘major milestone’

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Talk of Labour supermajority ‘nonsense’, says party’s Scotland leader – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says he would not let SNP hold new independence referendum or lift veto on gender recognition bill – as it happened

  • Rishi Sunak refuses to say if more Tories face election bet inquiries

  • SNP investigated over claim funds misused to support general election candidates

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tory candidate facing probe over election date betting allegations threatens to sue BBC – as it happened

  • Climate, NHS and independence: key takeaways from the SNP manifesto

  • SNP’s John Swinney reiterates independence goal at manifesto launch

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Chris Philp and Nick Thomas-Symonds among political figures debating crime and immigration – as it happened

  • Sarwar effectively starts Scottish Labour’s Holyrood campaign with tax pledge

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reform UK plans ‘don’t add up’ and costings are out ‘by tens of billions of pounds per year’, says IFS – as it happened

  • Path to power
    ‘Scotland in microcosm’: Midlothian voters eye Labour after months of SNP turmoil

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