Three days after declaring her intention to stand as leader of the SNP, everyone wants a piece of her. |
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Roseanna Cunningham, SNP MSP for Perth and party deputy leader, ridiculed the move by Smith, and accused her of running away from the challenge. |
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The majority of SNP votes in urban areas come not from hard nationalists but from people seeking an alternative to Labour. |
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The SNP believes that the First Minister has blundered by playing into their hands. |
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At present it feels like a lost cause, and the SNP seems directionless, ennuied and underachieving. |
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This time the SNP is emphasising better public services rather than the cost of delivering them. |
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There are also socialists in the SNP or other nationalist parties and in the Greens. |
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The SNP is giving its MSPs a free vote on this, not least because it has yet to establish a common line. |
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Two-thirds of MSPs have already signed motions against the visa decision but Labour are unlikely to support an SNP motion. |
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The Conservatives won one seat, and the SNP, under John Swinney, ran Labour close in two. |
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The SNP had suggested adding devo max as an option to this September's ballot paper for independence but the idea was ruled out by Westminster. |
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Of course, the media is hostile to nationalism in Scotland and gives the SNP a hard time, but that has always been the case. |
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It makes sense, of course, for the SNP to send an experienced hand to mind the shop in the Commons. |
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Mike Russell, culture spokesman for the SNP, said local councils issuing their own film certificates would set a dangerous precedent. |
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The SNP, they claim, is being punished unduly for the general disillusion with home rule. |
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It represents, I believe, the best chance the SNP has to develop its exceptionalism beyond its demand for independence and into a wider platform. |
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This displayed much-needed savvy, yet the SNP leader still struggles to impose his authority on his increasingly fractious and directionless party. |
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Pete Wishart, who sits for the SNP, felt the decision should lie with members of the Scottish parliament, and not with government riff-raff down south. |
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The SNP supporter then struck a low blow, musing that it would cost less to hire him to make films in Scotland than it was costing to build the new parliament. |
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It was the culmination of Salmond's transformation of the SNP from an introverted nationalist club into the principal opposition in the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. |
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The SNP, as it happens, is exercised about other outrages too. |
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But secondly, with the SNP continually waiting the chance to describe him as London's poodle, there is the political imperative for him to do so, in order to prove them wrong. |
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She said the SNP would award pay increases to nurses as well as implement a new consultants' contract which increases the level of NHS work consultants carry out. |
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The SNP election broadcast about waiting lists was controversial and provoked many heart-searching discussions about negative campaigning and taste. |
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The SNP, which won 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at the previous general election in 2015, lost 21 seats. |
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Labour gained six seats from the SNP while the Liberal Democrats gained three. |
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In 1999 he was elected SNP regional list MSP for Central Scotland in the first Scottish Parliament. |
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Bos taurus autosome 8 contains several SNPs that are significant for RFI in the 50K or 10K experiments and one SNP was significant in both. |
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The SNP contested all 59 Scottish seats and Plaid Cymru stood in all 40 Welsh seats. |
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The surprise of the night was Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP, she has replaced Nick Clegg as the new wunderkind of national election debates. |
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The SNP overall majority meant that there was sufficient support in the Scottish Parliament to hold a referendum on Scottish independence. |
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Last week, the SNP held three seats on Glasgow City Council and won one from the Greens, and held another seat in South Lanarkshire. |
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But despite his jubilance at the SNP surge, Cameron insisted the Tories were the party who would keep the UK together. |
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But SNP defence spokesman Brendan O'Hara last night demanded answers about the cloak-and-dagger visit. |
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Steve Slilaty and his staff will extract DNA samples from the patient's blood sample, run the SNP testing, analyze the data, all under one roof. |
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The SNP are the all-or-nothing party and will never contemplate helping devolution succeed. |
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The UUP also indicated that they would not work with the SNP if it wanted another independence referendum in Scotland. |
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Neil is on the left of the SNP, and is known as a fundamentalist, critical of the gradualist wing. |
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The SNP governed as a minority administration at Holyrood following the 2007 Scottish Parliament election. |
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This contrasted greatly with the SNP in Scotland who only received 1,454,436 votes but won 56 seats, due to more concentrated support. |
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The SNP is in favour of an independent Scotland retaining the Queen as head of state. |
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Christine Grahame has said she believes that party policy is to hold a referendum on the matter, due to a 1997 SNP conference resolution. |
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After the referendum, the SNP took a clear lead over the other parties in Scottish opinion polls. |
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The western constituency is Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale and is represented by SNP Christine Grahame. |
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However, in the election of 2015, the constituency voted in Hannah Bardell of the SNP as their member for Parliament. |
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The current Member of Parliament for Livingston is Hannah Bardell of the SNP who won the seat in the 2015 General Election. |
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Ian Blackford became the new SNP leader in Westminster on 14 June following Angus Robertson's defeat. |
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As the election approached the SNP gained support while Labour's support declined. |
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In their manifesto for the 2016 Scottish elections, the SNP stipulated conditions under which they would seek a second independence referendum. |
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The SNP want to put an end to swingeing cuts that are harming the most vulnerable in our society. |
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They are unironed and randomly coloured and get along together as well as the SNP and the Tories in the House of Commons. |
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Identified two SNP in intron 1 of the BMP15 gene in corriedale sheep kashmir valley sheep. |
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A SWITCHEROO candidate has been selected to fight the Ochil and South Perthshire constituency for the SNP in the general election. |
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Now it's used to described the right-wing press overreaction to the SNP unstoppability. |
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This brought the SNP to national prominence, leading to the establishment of the Kilbrandon Commission. |
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The SNP repeated its commitment to hold a referendum when it published its 2011 Scottish parliamentary election manifesto. |
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The SNP gained an overall majority in the election, winning 69 from 129 seats, thereby gaining a mandate to hold an independence referendum. |
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Labour lost 4 seats and fell narrowly behind the SNP, who won 47 seats to Labour's 46 seats. |
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Her speech was praised by SNP Parliamentary Group Leader, Angus Robertson, who described it as outstanding, principled and passionate. |
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The normal voting age was reduced from 18 to 16 for the referendum, as it was SNP policy to reduce the voting age for all elections in Scotland. |
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Other proponents of an independent Scottish currency included Yes Scotland chairman Dennis Canavan and former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars. |
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The SNP believes that a portion of the revenues should be invested in a sovereign oil fund. |
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Scotland returns two Labour MEPs, two SNP MEPs, one Conservative and Unionist MEP and one UKIP MEP, to the European Parliament. |
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The SNP government, elected in May 2007, made it clear that it opposed the use of partnerships between the NHS and the private sector. |
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In the final poll on the eve of the election, the SNP were eleven points clear of Labour. |
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The SNP took a further eight seats from the Liberal Democrats and one seat from the Conservatives. |
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Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated the SNP on the result, but vowed to campaign for the Union in any independence referendum. |
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Salmond was once again elected SNP leader in 2004 and the following year held his Banff and Buchan seat in the 2005 general election. |
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He was succeeded as SNP leader by his deputy, Nicola Sturgeon, as she was the only candidate to stand for the leadership election. |
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He reportedly sought acting advice on the role from Sean Connery, a friend and SNP supporter. |
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He was, along with other group leaders, suspended from membership of the SNP when the 79 Group was banned within the larger party. |
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When Gordon Wilson stood down as SNP leader in 1990, Salmond decided to contest the leadership. |
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This caused considerable consternation amongst the SNP left as the two main left leaders were opposing each other in the contest. |
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His first test as leader was the general election in 1992, with the SNP having high hopes of making an electoral breakthrough. |
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The SNP increased its number of MPs from four to six in the 1997 general election, which saw a landslide victory for the Labour Party. |
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He left the Scottish Parliament in 2001 to lead the SNP group in the House of Commons. |
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This left the SNP without any possibility to form a coalition with an overall majority. |
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The Scottish Green Party agreed to support an SNP minority administration on a confidence and supply basis. |
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The SNP failed to obtain support from other parties and withdrew the draft bill. |
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Before the 2011 Scottish election, the SNP again pledged to hold an independence referendum if it won another term. |
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He has indicated that he does not intend to replace Angus Robertson, MP for Moray, as the SNP leader in the House of Commons. |
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The Scottish Sun voiced its support for the SNP in the 2011 parliamentary election. |
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Currently, Scotland returns two Labour, two SNP, one Conservative and one UKIP MEP to the European Parliament. |
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In the 2017 council election, these wards elected 6 Labour, 5 Conservative and 4 SNP councillors. |
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He was later appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth in the Cabinet of the minority SNP government. |
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He stood down as SNP leader in 2004 and became Convener of the Scottish Parliament's European and External Relations Committee. |
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In 2004 she announced that she would stand as a candidate for the leadership of the SNP following the resignation of John Swinney. |
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The SNP won the highest number of seats in the Scottish Parliament in the 2007 election and Salmond was subsequently appointed First Minister. |
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Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan. |
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On 22 June 2004, John Swinney resigned as Leader of the SNP following poor results in the European Parliament election. |
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At the 2011 election, the SNP won a landslide victory and achieved a large overall majority. |
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Sturgeon immediately announced that she would be a candidate in the election to replace him, and received huge support from the SNP hierarchy. |
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Nominations for the SNP leadership closed on 15 October, with Sturgeon confirmed as the only candidate. |
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The SNP went on to win a landslide victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats. |
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Nonetheless, with 63 seats, the SNP was still by far the largest party in the chamber. |
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The SNP became the largest political party in council areas such as Falkirk, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. |
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At the same time, the SNP were to gain an unprecedented 11 MPs, unseating a number of Conservative MPs in rural constituencies. |
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The result was considered a surprise, as there was speculation that the SNP could have won an upset similar to Glasgow East. |
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In the 2012 Scottish local elections, Labour were outpolled by the SNP but gained votes and council seats. |
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The SNP had a surge in membership and gained a wide lead over Labour in the opinion polls. |
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While it gained the 2 constituency seats of Edinburgh Western and North East Fife from the SNP, its vote share fell slightly overall. |
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The motion was supported by the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens, while the SNP abstained. |
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Labour ruled out an electoral pact with the SNP, Liberal Democrats and Greens. |
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The SNP had been scheduled to release their manifesto for the election but this was delayed. |
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Following Labour's defeat at the hands of the SNP at the May 2007 election, Brankin became shadow Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning. |
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The SNP marker P297 was recognised in 2008 as ancestral to the significant subclades M73 and M269, combining them into one cluster. |
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The SNP decided to withdraw as independence was not a constitutional option countenanced by the convention. |
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This saw the SNP replace the Liberal Democrats as the third largest in the UK Parliament. |
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It's a shame the SNP are so against fracking as the abundant Scottish shale deposits could supply a viable alterative. |
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The Scottish people have a right to know that the Conservatives and SNP are involved in an invisible Faustian pact. |
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On the second list vote, a marker of party preference, the SNP outpolled all three put together. |
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Alpha adrenergic antagonist, phentolamine and 6-hydroxydopamine, a depletory of NA, prevented SNP from promoting memory formation in mice. |
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There is a long-running feud in the SNP between the gradualists and the fundamentalists, but open warfare is not the way to resolve it. |
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The SNP also called on Finnie to quit following reports of a link between trihalomethane in Scottish water supplies and cancer. |
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The SNP do not represent all of Scotland and they, and any triumphalist supporters, should not forget this. |
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That is because Scotland has a SNP Parliament and Government without the timidity of the visionless Labour Party in Wales. |
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The web site walks the researcher through the design of the primers needed for conducting allele-specific PCR against the SNP target of interest. |
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In addition, phenotypes can arise from complex polygenic traits, where an SNP only relates to one factor in the final phenotype. |
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He also supported a motion brought by the SNP and Plaid Cymru in 2006 calling for an inquiry into the government's conduct of the Iraq war. |
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With the advent of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, the SNP became the second largest party, serving two terms as the opposition. |
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In May 2011, the SNP won an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament with 69 seats. |
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All but three of the fifty nine constituencies in the country elected an SNP candidate. |
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On the constituency vote the SNP gained 11 seats from Labour but lost the Edinburgh Southern constituency to the party. |
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The SNP and Plaid Cymru were involved in joint campaigning during the 2005 General Election campaign. |
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During the period from its foundation until the 1960s, the SNP was essentially a moderate centrist party. |
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The emergence of Billy Wolfe as a leading figure in the SNP also contributed to this movement to the left. |
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The 1980s saw the SNP further define itself as a party of the political left, such as campaigning against the poll tax. |
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This caused the resignation of John MacCormick from the SNP and he formed the Scottish Covenant Association. |
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The SNP decided to withdraw as they felt that independence would not be a constitutional option countenanced by the convention. |
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A motion of no confidence was then tabled by the Conservatives and supported by the SNP, the Liberals and Ulster Unionists. |
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There are no votes to lose in England, plenty to garner in Scotland and the SNP wouldn't want to be accused of backscratching the Tories by abstaining. |
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Scottish Labour, the SNP, Liberal Democrats, and Scottish Greens campaigned for a 'Yes' vote for both proposals whilst the Conservatives opposed both proposals. |
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He also said that he planned to defeat the SNP in 2016, and that he would use the increased powers being devolved to Holyrood to end poverty and inequality. |
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The probe-based, fluorogenic 5' nuclease assay provide excellent sensitivity and the ability to multiplex reactions for real-time quantitation and SNP genotyping. |
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The SNP operation is supported by the MIPS third-party IP and Ecosystem partners to provide a robust system-level and platform debug tools environment. |
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The SNP gained an overall majority of seats in the 2011 election, and thus had enough numbers to vote in its leader, Alex Salmond, as First Minister for a second term. |
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The 2012 elections gave the SNP overall control of the council. |
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The 2011 election saw a decisive victory for the SNP which was able to form a majority government intent on delivering a referendum on independence. |
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The election produced a majority SNP government, making this the first time in the Scottish Parliament where a party had commanded a parliamentary majority. |
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Johnson, who has a day job as the mayor of London when he's not doubling as a talking clown, compared electing the SNP to putting King Herod in charge of a baby farm. |
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The SNP took 16 seats from Labour, many of whose key figures failed to be returned to parliament, although Labour leader Iain Gray retained East Lothian by 151 votes. |
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But by mapping where in the world a particular SNP is common among indigenous people, scientists can make a fairly good estimate of where its primogenitor lived. |
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Sturgeon contested her first election as SNP leader at the 2016 election. |
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The SNP currently leads a minority government in the Scottish Parliament. |
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The SNP increased their number of councillors elected in 2017 than it did in 2012, with 431 being elected, compared to 425 in the 2012 local elections. |
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As a result of that election, the SNP became the largest party in the Scottish Parliament and formed a minority government led by the First Minister, Alex Salmond. |
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It was supported by the Labour, SNP, Liberal Democrat and Green parties. |
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The SNP retains close links with Plaid Cymru, its counterpart in Wales. |
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It is as if Cameron wants to help the SNP and unthread the UK bit by bit. |
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Having won 56 of 59 Scottish seats at the last general election, the SNP lost a total of 21 seats, and majorities in their remaining seats were greatly reduced. |
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The SNP leader's signature reads as 'alex SAlmond', which one of the UK's leading graphologists insists is a tell-tale trait of a master spin doctor. |
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After the SNP emerged as the largest party following the 2007 Scottish Parliament Election, Swinney led coalition talks with the Scottish Green Party. |
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So it ill behoves the SNP on Aberdeen Council to start whingeing about the labour led administration sending out pro-union literature with council tax bills. |
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The SNP was formed in 1934 through the merger of the National Party of Scotland and the Scottish Party, with Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham as its first president. |
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The SNP hit a high point in the October 1974 general election, polling almost a third of all votes in Scotland and returning 11 MPs to Westminster. |
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In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election the SNP fell 2 seats short of an overall majority with 63 seats but remained in government for a third term. |
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The SNP rebounded from the loss in the independence referendum at the UK general election in May 2015, led by Salmond's successor as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon. |
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The party took the Ochil and South Perthshire and Stirling constituencies in central Scotland and missed out to the SNP in Perth and North Perthshire by just 21 votes. |
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Russian officials said that the strong performance of the SNP in the 2015 UK general election confirmed their suspicions about the Scottish referendum. |
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The primary level of organisation in the SNP are the local Branches. |
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The annual National Conference is the supreme governing body of the SNP, and is responsible for determining party policy and electing the National Executive Committee. |
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Labour fell behind the SNP in the 2009 European Parliament election. |
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Labour led the SNP in the polls for the 2011 Scottish Parliament election until the campaign began in March, at which point support for the SNP rallied. |
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However, many hardline fundamentalists in the SNP objected to committing the party to devolution, as it was short of full political Scottish independence. |
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The SNP went on to win an unprecedented majority in the Scottish Parliament, a result that had been considered impossible under the proportional voting system. |
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However, this 79 Group gradualism was as much a reaction against the fundamentalists of the day, many of whom believed the SNP should not take a clear left or right position. |
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Swinney joined the SNP at the age of 15, citing his anger at the way in which Scotland had been portrayed by television commentators at the Commonwealth Games. |
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Labour still won the most constituencies, but the SNP made inroads. |
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Following the 2007 Scottish parliamentary elections, the SNP emerged as the largest party with 47 MSPs and formed a minority government with Alex Salmond as First Minister. |
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Names of SNP mutations can also be used to name clades or haplogroups. |
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This brought the SNP to national prominence, leading to Edward Heath's 1968 Declaration of Perth and the establishment of the Kilbrandon Commission. |
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In the February 1974 general election seven SNP MPs were returned. |
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In the SNP, there was division between those who saw devolution as a stepping stone to independence and those who feared it might detract from that ultimate goal. |
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Deals were made with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to hold referenda on devolution in exchange for their support, helping to prolong the government's life. |
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In protest, the SNP withdrew their support from the government. |
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In order to concentrate on his new role as First Minister, Salmond stood down as the SNP group leader at Westminster and was replaced by Angus Robertson. |
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The SNP group was reduced from 11 MPs to 2 in the 1979 general election, while devolution was opposed by the Conservative governments led by Thatcher and John Major. |
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After being confirmed as the only candidate, Sturgeon launched a tour of Scotland, visiting SNP members in different cities outlining her vision for Scotland. |
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Sturgeon was formally acclaimed as the first female Leader of the SNP on 14 November 2014 at the Autumn Conference in Perth, with Hosie as her depute. |
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On 7 December 2014, Salmond announced that he would stand as the SNP candidate for the Westminster constituency of Gordon in the 2015 May election. |
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