Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party (SNP; Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Scots Naitional Pairtie) is a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland. ^[1]

Aberdeenshire West (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Aberdeenshire West is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Additional Member System

The additional member system (AMS), also known as mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) outside the United Kingdom, is a mixed electoral system with one tier of single-member district representatives, and another tier of "additional members" elected to make the overall election results more proportional.

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Aileen Campbell

Aileen Elizabeth Campbell (born 18 May 1980) is a Scottish Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government since 26 June 2018 and Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Clydesdale.

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Air Passenger Duty

Air Passenger Duty (APD) is an excise duty which is charged on the carriage of passengers flying from a United Kingdom or Isle of Man airport on an aircraft that has an authorised take-off weight of more than 5.7 tonnes or more than twenty seats for passengers.

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Alan Brown (Scottish politician)

Alan Brown (born 12 August 1970) is a Scottish politician and the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, since gaining the seat in the 2015 general election.

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Alasdair Allan

Alasdair James Allan (born 6 May 1971) is the Scottish Government's Minister for International Development and Europe.

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Alasdair Morgan

Alasdair Neil Morgan (born 21 April 1945) is a Scottish politician.

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Alex Salmond

Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond (born 31 December 1954) is a Scottish politician who served as the First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014.

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Alexander MacEwen

Sir Alexander Malcolm MacEwen (10 January 1875 – 29 June 1941) was a Scottish solicitor, provost and the first leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

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Alison Thewliss

Alison Emily Thewliss (born 13 September 1982) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Allan Macartney

Dr William John Allan Macartney (17 February 1941 – 25 August 1998) was a Scottish politician who served as a Scottish National Party MEP for the North East Scotland constituency between the 1994 European Parliament election and his sudden death from a heart attack in 1998.

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Alyn Smith

Alyn Smith (born 15 September 1973) is a Scottish politician, and Scottish National Party Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.

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Andrew Dewar Gibb

Andrew Dewar Gibb MBE QC (13 February 1888 – 24 January 1974) was a Scottish advocate, barrister, professor and politician.

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Angela Crawley

Angela Crawley (born 3 June 1987) is a Scottish National Party politician.

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Angus MacNeil

Angus Brendan MacNeil (Aonghas Brianan MacNèill) (born 21 July 1970) is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Na h-Eileanan an Iar.

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Angus Robertson

Angus Struan Carolus Robertson (born 28 September 1969) is a Scottish politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and was the party's spokesperson on the Constitution in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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Arthur Donaldson

Arthur William Donaldson (13 December 1901 – 18 January 1993) was a Scottish journalist and Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Big tent

In politics, a big tent or catch-all party is a type of political party that seeks to attract voters from different points of view and ideologies.

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Birlinn (publisher)

Birlinn Limited is an independent publishing house based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Brendan O'Hara

Brendan O'Hara (born 27 April 1963) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Bruce Watson (politician)

Mearns Bruce Watson (3 April 1910 – 16 May 1988) was a Scottish organic chemist and Scottish National Party politician.

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Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government

The Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet.

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Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs

The Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, commonly referred to as the Culture Secretary, is a Scottish Government Cabinet position with responsibility for Culture, the arts, relations between the Scottish Government and the European Union and other international affairs.

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Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills

The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, commonly referred to as the Education Secretary, is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet responsible for all levels of education in Scotland.

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Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform

The Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform is a cabinet post in the Scottish Government.

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Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy and Fair Work

The Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Economy and Fair Work, commonly referred to as the Finance Secretary, is a member of the Cabinet in the Scottish Government.

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Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations

The Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations is a cabinet position in the Scottish Government, replacing the Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland's Place in Europe post.

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Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport

The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, commonly referred to as the Health Secretary, is a cabinet position in the Scottish Government.

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Cabinet Secretary for Justice

The Cabinet Secretary for Justice, commonly referred to as the Justice Secretary, is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet.

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Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy

The Cabinet Secretary for the Rural Economy is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet.

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Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People

The Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet.

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Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity

The Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet.

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Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland

The Campaign for Nationalism in Scotland was an internal grouping within the Scottish National Party (SNP) that formed in response to the efforts of the 79 Group within the party.

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Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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Carol Monaghan

Carol Monaghan (born 2 August 1972) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow North West in the general election in May 2015.

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Catalan independence referendum, 2017

The Catalan independence referendum of 2017, also known by the numeronym 1-O (for "1 October") in Spanish media, was an independence referendum held on 1 October 2017 in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, passed by the Parliament of Catalonia as the Law on the Referendum on Self-determination of Catalonia and called by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

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Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics or center-left politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-left politics, is an adherence to views leaning to the left-wing, but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other left-wing variants.

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Centrism

In politics, centrism—the centre (British English/Canadian English/Australian English) or the center (American English/Philippine English)—is a political outlook or specific position that involves acceptance or support of a balance of a degree of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy, while opposing political changes which would result in a significant shift of society either strongly to the left or the right.

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Chris Law

Chris Law (5 July 1952 – 24 July 2007) was a British sailor who was a winner of the Finn Gold Cup in 1976.

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Chris Stephens (politician)

Christopher Charles Stephens (born 20 March 1973) is a Scottish trade unionist and Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who is the current MP for the Glasgow South West constituency, elected at the 2015 general election.

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Christopher Harvie

Professor Christopher Harvie (born 21 September 1944, Motherwell) is a Scottish historian and a Scottish National Party politician.

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Civic nationalism

Civic nationalism, also known as liberal nationalism, is a form of nationalism identified by political philosophers who believe in an inclusive form of nationalism that adheres with traditional liberal values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights.

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Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009

The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament.

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Colin Beattie

Colin Beattie (born 17 October 1951) is the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Midlothian North and Musselburgh constituency since 2011.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Cooperative

A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Council house

A council house is a form of public or social housing built by local municipalities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Councillor

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

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Credit union

A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, controlled by its members and operated on the principle of people helping people, providing its members credit at competitive rates as well as other financial services.

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Culture of Scotland

The culture of Scotland refers to the patterns of human activity and symbolism associated with Scotland and the Scottish people.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a daily national middle market tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom.

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Decentralization

Decentralization is the process by which the activities of an organization, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, are distributed or delegated away from a central, authoritative location or group.

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Deidre Brock

Deidre Leanne Brock (born 23 November 1961) is an Australian-born Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Deputy First Minister of Scotland

The Deputy First Minister of Scotland (Leas-Phrìomh Mhinistear na h-Alba; Heid Meinister Depute o Scotland) is the deputy to the First Minister of Scotland.

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Derek Mackay

Derek Mackay (born 30 July 1977) is a Scottish National Party politician who is currently Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution.

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Donald Stewart (Scottish politician)

Donald James Stewart (17 October 1920 – 23 August 1992) was Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1987 for the Western Isles.

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Douglas Chapman (Scottish politician)

Douglas Chapman is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Douglas Henderson (SNP politician)

Douglas Henderson (16 July 1935 – 15 September 2006) was a Scottish politician.

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Douglas Young (classicist)

Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young (5 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish poet, scholar, translator and politician.

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Drew Hendry

Andrew Egan Henderson Hendry (born 21 May 1964), known as Drew Hendry, is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey since 2015.

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Duncan Ross (Scottish politician)

Duncan Ross is a Scottish nationalist political activist and expert on economic and social history.

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Edinburgh Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Edinburgh Central is a burgh constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Edinburgh Southern (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Edinburgh Southern is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood).

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Edinburgh Western (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Edinburgh Western is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, however, it is one of nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole. The constituency was created in 2011, when it replaced the re-drawn Edinburgh West constituency.

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Electoral Commission (United Kingdom)

The Electoral Commission is an independent body set up by the UK Parliament.

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European Free Alliance

The European Free Alliance (EFA) is a European political coalition that consists of various regionalist political parties in Europe.

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European Green Party

The European Green Party (EGP), sometimes referred to as European Greens, is the European political party that operates as a federation of political parties across Europe supporting green politics.

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union (EU).

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European Parliament election, 1979 (United Kingdom)

The European Assembly Election, 1979, was the first European election to be held in the United Kingdom after the European Communities (EC) decided to directly elect representatives to the European Parliament.

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European Parliament election, 1984 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament Election, 1984 was the second European election to be held in the United Kingdom.

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European Parliament election, 1989 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament Election, 1989, was the third European election to be held in the United Kingdom.

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European Parliament election, 1994 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament Election, 1994 was the fourth European election to be held in the United Kingdom.

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European Parliament election, 1999 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament Election, 1999 was the United Kingdom's part of the European Parliament election 1999.

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European Parliament election, 2004 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament election, 2004 was the United Kingdom's part of the wider European Parliament election, 2004 which was held between 10 and 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union.

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European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom)

The European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009.

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European Parliament election, 2014 (United Kingdom)

The United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election was held on Thursday 22 May 2014, coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland.

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European Progressive Democrats

The Group of European Progressive Democrats was a heterogeneous political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1973 and 1984.

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European Radical Alliance

The Group of the European Radical Alliance (ERA) was a heterogeneous political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1994 and 1999.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Fergus Ewing

Fergus Stewart Ewing (born 23 September 1957) is a Scottish politician, serving as the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and the Scottish National Party Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Inverness and Nairn.

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Fiona Hyslop

Fiona Jane Hyslop (born 1 August 1964) is a Scottish politician who is the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs and the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Linlithgow constituency since 2011, having represented the Lothians Region 1999−2011.

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Fiona McLeod

Fiona Grace McLeod (born 3 December 1957) is a Scottish politician.

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First Minister of Scotland

The First Minister of Scotland (Prìomh Mhinistear na h-Alba; Heid Meinister o Scotland) is the leader of the Scottish Government.

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Full employment

Full employment means that everyone who wants a job have all the hours of work they need on "fair wages".

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Fundamentalists and gradualists

The gradualist viewpoint within the Scottish National Party (SNP) is the idea that Scottish independence can be won by the accumulation by the Scottish Parliament of powers that the UK Parliament currently has over a protracted period of time.

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Gavin Newlands

Gavin Andrew Stuart Newlands MP (born 2 February 1980) is a Scottish National Party politician.

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George Leslie (politician)

George Andrew Leslie (born 21 November 1936) is a Scottish National Party politician and a veterinary surgeon.

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Gerry Hassan

Gerry Hassan (born 1964) is a Scottish writer, commentator and academic.

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Glasgow City Council

Glasgow City Council, the local government body of the city of Glasgow in Scotland, became one of the newly created single tier local authorities in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, with boundaries somewhat different from those of the City of Glasgow district of the Strathclyde region: parts of the Cambuslang and Halfway and Rutherglen and Fernhill areas were transferred from the city area to the new South Lanarkshire council area.

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Gordon (UK Parliament constituency)

Gordon is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster), which elects one member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

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Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)

Robert Gordon Wilson (16 April 1938 – 25 June 2017) was a Scottish politician and solicitor.

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Greens–European Free Alliance

The Greens-European Free Alliance (Greens-EFA) is the political group in the European Parliament containing green, regionalist and left-wing nationalist political parties.

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Hamilton (UK Parliament constituency)

Hamilton was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997.

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Hamilton by-election, 1967

The Hamilton by-election in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, was held on 2 November 1967.

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Hannah Bardell

Hannah Mary Bardell (born 1 June 1983) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston since the 2015 general election.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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History of Scottish devolution

The decision of the Parliament of Scotland to ratify the Treaty of Union in 1707 was not unanimous and, from that time, individuals and organisations have advocated the reinstatement of a Scottish Parliament.

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Holy Loch

The Holy Loch; (Scottish Gaelic "An Loch Sianta/Seunta") is a Sea Loch, a part of the Cowal peninsula coast of the Firth of Clyde, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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House of Commons Library

The House of Commons Library is the library and information resource of the lower house of the British Parliament.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Humza Yousaf

Humza Haroon Yousaf (born 7 April 1985) is a Scottish National Party politician who has been Cabinet Secretary for Justice since 26 June 2018 and the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Glasgow Pollok since 2016.

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Ian Blackford

Ian Blackford (born 14 May 1961) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who, since May 2015, has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross, Skye and Lochaber.

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Ian Hudghton

Ian Stewart Hudghton (born 19 September 1951) is a Scottish politician, and is a current Scottish National Party Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.

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It's Scotland's oil

"It's Scotland's oil" was a widely publicised political slogan used by the Scottish National Party (SNP) during the 1970s in making their economic case for Scottish independence.

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Jeane Freeman

Jeane Tennent Freeman (born 1953, Ayr) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport since 26 June 2018.

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Jim Fairlie

Jim Fairlie (born 1940) is a Scottish politician and financial analyst.

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Jim Sillars

James Sillars (born 4 October 1937) is a Scottish politician and a leading figure in the campaign for Scottish independence.

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Jimmy Halliday

James Halliday (27 February 1927 − 3 January 2013) was a Scottish author, historian and politician.

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Joanna Cherry

Joanna Catherine Cherry (born 18 March 1966) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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John MacCormick

John MacDonald MacCormick (20 November 1904 – 13 October 1961) was a Scottish lawyer, Scottish nationalist politician and advocate of Home Rule in Scotland.

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John Swinney

John Ramsay Swinney (born 13 April 1964) is a Scottish politician serving as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills.

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Keith Brown (Scottish politician)

Keith James Brown (born 20 December 1961) is a Scottish politician who is currently Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party.

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Kirsty Blackman

Kirsty Ann Blackman (née West; 20 March 1986) is a Scottish National Party politician who was elected as the Member of Parliament for Aberdeen North at the May 2015 general election.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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Liberal Democrats (UK)

The Liberal Democrats (often referred to as Lib Dems) are a liberal British political party, formed in 1988 as a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a splinter group from the Labour Party, which had formed the SDP–Liberal Alliance from 1981.

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Lisa Cameron

Lisa Cameron (born 8 April 1972) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and consultant clinical psychologist.

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List of MPs for constituencies in Scotland 2017–present

This is a list of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Scottish constituencies for the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2017-). The list is sorted by the name of the MP.

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List of Scottish National Party MPs

This is a list of Scottish National Party MPs.

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List of United Kingdom MPs

Following is a (currently incomplete) list of past Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom in alphabetical order.

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List of universities in Scotland

This is a list of universities in Scotland.

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Local government in Scotland

Local government in Scotland is organised through 32 unitary authorities designated as Councils which consist of councillors elected every five years by registered voters in each of the council areas.

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Majority government

A majority government is a government formed by a governing party that has an absolute majority of seats in the legislature or parliament in a parliamentary system.

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Margaret Ewing

Margaret Anne Ewing (née McAdam; 1 September 1945 – 21 March 2006) was a Scottish teacher, journalist and politician.

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Margo MacDonald

Margo Symington MacDonald (née Aitken; 19 April 1943 – 4 April 2014) was a Scottish teacher, broadcaster and politician.

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Marion Fellows

Marion Fellows (born 5 May 1949) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Martin Docherty-Hughes

Martin John Docherty-Hughes (born 21 January 1971) is a Scottish National Party politician.

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Mary Fraser Dott

Mary Fraser Dott (died about 1980) was a Scottish nationalist political activist.

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Mebyon Kernow

Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall (MK; Cornish for Sons of Cornwall) is a Cornish nationalist, centre-left political party in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Member of the European Parliament

A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Member of the Scottish Parliament

Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) (Ball Pàrlamaid na h-Alba (BPA) in Gaelic, Memmer o the Scots Pairliament (MSP) in Scots) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament.

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Mhairi Black

Mhairi Black (born 12 September 1994) is a Scottish politician.

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Michael Matheson (politician)

Michael Stephen Matheson (born 8 September 1970) is a Scottish politician who serving as Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity since 26 June 2018, having served as the Cabinet Secretary for Justice from 2014 to 2018.

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Michael Russell (politician)

Michael William "Mike" Russell, (born 9 August 1953) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations since 26 June 2018 and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Argyll and Bute.

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Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II

The United Kingdom, along with most of its Dominions and Crown colonies declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939, after the German invasion of Poland.

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Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers.

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Minority government

A minority government, or minority cabinet or minority parliament, is a cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the parliament.

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Moray (UK Parliament constituency)

Moray is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Motherwell (UK Parliament constituency)

Motherwell was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918-1974.

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Muriel Gibson (politician)

Margaret Muriel Gibson (29 November 1912 – 22 October 2005), known as Muriel Gibson, was a Scottish nationalist politician.

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National Party of Scotland

The National Party of Scotland (NPS) was a centre-left political party in Scotland which was one of the predecessors of the current Scottish National Party (SNP).

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Neil Gray

Neil Charles Gray (born 1986) is a Scottish National Party politician.

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Neil MacCallum

Neil R. MacCallum (15 May 1954 – 9 November 2002) was a Scottish nationalist political activist and poet.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland is the publicly funded healthcare system in Scotland.

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Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon (born 19 July 1970) is a Scottish politician who is the current First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), in office since November 2014.

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North East Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)

North East Fife is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament.

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North East Fife (UK Parliament constituency)

North East Fife is a county constituency in Fife, Scotland, represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Stephen Gethins since 2015.

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Nuclear disarmament

Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons.

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Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant or nuclear power station is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Opposition (parliamentary)

Parliamentary opposition is a form of political opposition to a designated government, particularly in a Westminster-based parliamentary system.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the UK Parliament or British Parliament, is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies and overseas territories.

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Patricia Gibson

Patricia Gibson (born 12 May 1968) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Patrick Grady

Patrick John Grady (born 5 February 1980) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who is also a member of Plaid Cymru.

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Pete Wishart

Peter Wishart (born 9 March 1962) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and musician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth and North Perthshire since 2005.

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Peter Grant (politician)

Peter Grant (born 12 October 1960) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

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Peterhead

Peterhead (Ceann Phàdraig, Peterheid) is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Philippa Whitford

Philippa Whitford (born 24 December 1958) is a Scottish National Party politician and surgeon.

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Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru (officially Plaid Cymru – Party of Wales, often referred to simply as Plaid) is a social-democratic political party in Wales advocating for Welsh independence from the United Kingdom within the European Union.

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Political radicalism

The term political radicalism (in political science known as radicalism) denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways.

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Politics of Scotland

Scotland is a country which is part of the United Kingdom.

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Poll tax (Great Britain)

The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of taxation introduced in replacement of domestic rates in Scotland from 1989, prior to its introduction in England and Wales from 1990.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Pro-Europeanism

Pro-Europeanism is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU).

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Progressive tax

A progressive tax is a tax in which the tax rate increases as the taxable amount increases.

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Proposed second Scottish independence referendum

The Scottish Government has proposed holding a second referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom (UK).

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Queen's University

Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Radio Free Scotland

Between 1956 and 1965 Radio Free Scotland (RFS) broadcast through the PAL audio channel of BBC television (then on VHF) after God Save the Queen finished in the evening, and, later on, on 262 metres medium wave on the radio.

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Rainbow Group (1989–94)

The Rainbow Group in the European Parliament was a regionalist political group in the European Parliament from 1989 to 1994.

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Redistribution of income and wealth

Redistribution of income and redistribution of wealth are respectively the transfer of income and of wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others by means of a social mechanism such as taxation, charity, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law.

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Regionalism (politics)

In politics, regionalism is a political ideology that focuses on the national or normative interests of a particular region, group of regions or another subnational entity.

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Renewable energy

Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

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Richard J. Finlay

Professor Richard J. Finlay FRHistS is the current Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde and the author of a number of books, particularly on the modern history of Scotland.

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Right-wing politics

Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.

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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer.

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Robert Curran (Scottish politician)

Robert Curran (14 September 1923 – 28 September 1995) was a Scottish nationalist political activist.

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Robert McIntyre

Robert Douglas McIntyre (15 December 1913 – 2 February 1998) was a Scottish physician and a Scottish National Party politician and Member of Parliament.

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Roland Muirhead

Roland Eugene Muirhead (24 July 1868 – 2 August 1964) was a Scottish businessman and Scottish nationalist politician.

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Roseanna Cunningham

Roseanna Cunningham (born 27 July 1951, in Glasgow) is a Scottish politician who is the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform.

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Rosemary Hall (political activist)

Rosemary Hall (22 April 1925 – 29 May 2011) was a political organiser in the Scottish National Party (SNP).

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Royal Commission on the Constitution (United Kingdom)

The Royal Commission on the Constitution, also referred to as the Kilbrandon Commission (initially the Crowther Commission) or Kilbrandon Report, was a long-running royal commission set up by Harold Wilson's Labour government to examine the structures of the constitution of the United Kingdom and the British Islands and the government of its constituent countries, and to consider whether any changes should be made to those structures.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is the marriage of a same-sex couple, entered into in a civil or religious ceremony.

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Sandy Milne

William Alexander Milne, known as Sandy Milne (born 1920) was the first deputy leader of the Scottish National Party.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scotland (European Parliament constituency)

Scotland constitutes a single constituency of the European Parliament.

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Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

The Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Scottish CND) is the Scottish representative body of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

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Scottish Green Party

The Scottish Green Party (Pàrtaidh Uaine na h-Alba; Scots Green Pairty) is a green political party in Scotland.

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Scottish independence

Scottish independence (Scots unthirldom; Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba) is a political aim of various political parties, advocacy groups, and individuals in Scotland (which is a country of the United Kingdom) for the country to become an independent sovereign state.

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Scottish independence referendum, 2014

A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom took place on Thursday 18 September 2014.

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Scottish Labour Party

The Scottish Labour Party (Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, Scots Labour Pairty; branded Scottish Labour) is the devolved Scotland section of the United Kingdom Labour Party.

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Scottish Liberal Democrats

The Scottish Liberal Democrats (Libearal Deamocratach na h-Alba, Scots Leeberal Democrats) is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Scotland.

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Scottish local elections, 1974

There were elections for the Scottish district councils on Tuesday 7 May 1974, for both the new regional and district councils, between the two United Kingdom general elections of February and October in that same year.

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Scottish local elections, 1977

There were elections for the Scottish district councils in 1977.

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Scottish local elections, 1980

There were elections for the Scottish district councils in 1980.

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Scottish local elections, 1984

Local elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 3 May 1984, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts.

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Scottish local elections, 1988

Local elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1988, to elect members to all 53 district councils under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which had established the two-tier system of regions and districts.

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Scottish local elections, 1992

Local elections were held in Scotland in May 1992, to elect members to all 53 district councils.

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Scottish local elections, 1995

Local elections were held in Scotland on 6 April 1995, as part of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

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Scottish local elections, 1999

The Scottish local elections, 1999 were held on 6 May 1999, the same day as First Scottish Parliament elections.

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Scottish local elections, 2003

The Scottish local elections, 2003 were held on 1 May 2003, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England.

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Scottish local elections, 2007

The Scottish local elections, 2007 were held on 3 May 2007, the same day as Scottish Parliament elections and local elections in parts of England.

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Scottish local elections, 2012

The 2012 Scottish local elections, were held on 3 May, in all 32 local authorities.

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Scottish local elections, 2017

The 2017 Scottish local elections were held on Thursday 4 May, in all 32 local authorities.

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Scottish nationalism

Scottish nationalism promotes the idea that the Scottish people form a cohesive nation and national identity and is closely linked to the cause of Scottish home rule and Scottish independence, the ideology of the Scottish National Party, the party forming the Scottish Government.

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Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament (Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: The Scots Pairlament) is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland.

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Scottish Parliament election, 1999

The first election to the devolved Scottish Parliament, to fill 129 seats, took place on 6 May 1999.

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Scottish Parliament election, 2003

The Scottish Parliament election, 2003, was the second election of members to the Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Parliament election, 2007

The 2007 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Parliament election, 2011

The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2011 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Parliament election, 2016

The Scottish general election, 2016 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2016 section 4 to elect 129 members to the Scottish Parliament.

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Scottish Party

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Scottish regional elections, 1978

Regional elections were held in Scotland on Tuesday 2 May 1978, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

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Scottish regional elections, 1982

Regional elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 6 May 1982, as part of the wider 1982 United Kingdom local elections.

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Scottish regional elections, 1986

Regional elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 8 May 1986, under the terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

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Scottish regional elections, 1990

Regional elections were held in Scotland on Thursday 3 May 1990, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, and were the first test of public option on the Community Charge.

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Scottish regional elections, 1994

Regional elections were held in Scotland on 5 May 1994, as part of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.

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Self-determination

The right of people to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law (commonly regarded as a jus cogens rule), binding, as such, on the United Nations as authoritative interpretation of the Charter's norms.

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Shirley-Anne Somerville

Shirley-Anne Somerville (born 2 September 1974) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician serving as Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People from 26 June 2018, having been the Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science in the Scottish Government from May 2016 to June 2018.

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Single transferable vote

The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting in multi-seat organizations or constituencies (voting districts).

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SNP Students

SNP Students (also known as the Federation of Student Nationalists) is the student wing of the Scottish National Party, representing students in Scottish higher education.

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SNP Trade Union Group

The SNP Trade Union Group (TUG) is an affiliated organisation of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

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Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Stephen Gethins

Stephen Patrick Gethins (born 1976) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Fife since May 2015.

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Stewart Hosie

Stewart Hosie (born 3 January 1963) is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dundee East since the 2005 general election.

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Stewart MacDonald

Alexander Stewart MacDonald is a Scottish Labour Party local government councillor.

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Stuart McDonald (Scottish politician)

Stuart Campbell McDonald (born 2 May 1978) is a Scottish National Party politician.

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Susan Aitken

Susan Aitken is a Scottish National Party politician who is the leader of Glasgow City Council and the leader of the SNP group.

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Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh

Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh OBE WS NP (born 5 October 1970) is a Scottish politician.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The National (Scotland)

The National is a Scottish daily newspaper that is owned by the publisher Newsquest.

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The Scots Independent

The Scots Independent is a monthly Scottish political newspaper that is in favour of Scottish independence.

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Tom Gibson (Scottish politician)

Thomas Hill Gibson (22 September 1893 – 23 April 1975) was a Scottish nationalist political activist.

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Tommy Sheppard

Tommy Sheppard (born 6 March 1959) is a Scottish National Party politician and the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East since May 2015.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Trident (UK nuclear programme)

Trident, also known as the Trident nuclear programme or Trident nuclear deterrent, covers the development, procurement and operation of nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom and their means of delivery.

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UGM-27 Polaris

The UGM-27 Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fueled nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom general election, 1935

The 1935 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 14 November 1935 and resulted in a large, albeit reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party.

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United Kingdom general election, 1945

The 1945 United Kingdom general election was held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, because of local wakes weeks.

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United Kingdom general election, 1950

The 1950 United Kingdom general election was the first ever general election to be held after a full term of Labour government.

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United Kingdom general election, 1951

The 1951 United Kingdom general election was held twenty months after the 1950 general election, which the Labour Party had won with a slim majority of just five seats.

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United Kingdom general election, 1955

The 1955 United Kingdom general election was held on 26 May 1955, four years after the previous general election.

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United Kingdom general election, 1959

The 1959 United Kingdom general election was held on 8 October 1959.

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United Kingdom general election, 1964

The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on 15 October 1964, five years after the previous election, and thirteen years after the Conservative Party, first led by Winston Churchill, had entered power.

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United Kingdom general election, 1966

The 1966 United Kingdom general election on 31 March 1966 was won by incumbent Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson and was regarded as an easy victory.

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United Kingdom general election, 1970

The 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970.

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United Kingdom general election, 1979

The 1979 United Kingdom general election was held on 3 May 1979 to elect 635 members to the British House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 1983

The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983.

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United Kingdom general election, 1987

The 1987 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 11 June 1987, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 1992

The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 1997

The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997, five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2001

The 2001 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 7 June 2001, four years after the previous election on 1 May 1997, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2005

The 2005 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2010

The 2010 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 6 May 2010, with 45,597,461 registered voters entitled to vote to elect members to the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2015

The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 2017

The 2017 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 8 June, having been announced just under two months earlier by Prime Minister Theresa May on 18 April 2017 after it was discussed at cabinet.

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United Kingdom general election, February 1974

The February 1974 United Kingdom general election was held on the 28th day of that month.

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United Kingdom general election, October 1974

The October 1974 United Kingdom general election took place on Thursday 10 October 1974 to elect 635 members of the British House of Commons.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Upper Clyde Shipbuilders

Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) was a Scottish shipbuilding consortium, created in 1968 as a result of the amalgamation of five major shipbuilders of the River Clyde.

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Victor Gollancz Ltd

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Welfare state in the United Kingdom

The welfare state of the United Kingdom comprises expenditures by the government of the United Kingdom intended to improve health, education, employment and social security.

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William Power (Scottish politician)

William Power (30 August 1873 – 13 June 1951) was a Scottish author, journalist, and politician.

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William Wolfe

William Cuthbertson "Billy" Wolfe (22 February 1924 – 18 March 2010) was a Scottish accountant, manufacturer and Scottish National Party politician.

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Winnie Ewing

Winifred Margaret Ewing (born 10 July 1929) is a Scottish nationalist, lawyer and prominent Scottish National Party (SNP) politician who was a Member of Parliament (Hamilton 1967–70; Moray and Nairn 74–79), Member of the European Parliament (Highlands and Islands 1975–1999) and Member of the Scottish Parliament (Highlands and Islands 1999–2003).

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Young Scots for Independence

Young Scots for Independence (YSI) (Sometimes referred to as SNP Youth) is the youth wing of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

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79 Group

The 79 Group was a faction within the Scottish National Party (SNP), named after its year of formation, 1979.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_National_Party

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