Alister Jack

Scottish Green party co-leader Lorna Slater (Photo by Jane Barlow - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Deposit Return Scheme: Lorna Slater vows to ‘persist’ with contentious plan

Scotland can look to Singapore for a business community that is part of nation-building

Scotland needs a Singapore-style reset - Jeremy Grant

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's increase in government spending on childcare means the Scottish Government will get extra funding (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Budget shows UK's unwavering commitment to tackling cost-of-living crisis

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack says he argued against the duty hike.

Alister Jack accused of ‘colossal failure’ over duty hike on Scotch whisky

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has defended plans to increase duty on Scotch whisky, despite the industry saying the rise announced in the Budget breaks a previous commitment made by the UK Government.

Jeremy Hunt defends alcohol duty hike after criticism from Scotch whisky sector

Some in the independence movement 'reasonably question if Scotland is ready, yet, to transition to full statehood', according to SNP MSP Ben Macpherson

If SNP ditch confrontation for cooperation, Scotland will be better for it

Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland, should look at the effectiveness - or lack, thereof - of the Scottish Parliament, says reader (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Let’s get the Scottish Parliament abolished

The plans for the deposit return scheme have become embroiled in controversy.

Fallout over deposit return scheme deepens as just one in six producers sign up

Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack arrives in Downing Street, London.

Deposit Return Scheme: Row over key legal exemption for scheme rumbles on

The UK Government is set to block Scotland’s upcoming bottle deposit return scheme according to reports.

Westminster set to block upcoming deposit return scheme

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Analysis: Nicola Sturgeon's resignation casts yet more doubt on gender reforms

Plastic bottles are a major source of litter in Scotland (Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Deposit Return Scheme is vital to tackle plastic pollution – Dr Richard Dixon

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack. Picture: PA/Andrew Milligan

Nicola Sturgeon accuses Alister Jack of acting like 'governor-general'

Fair Isle in the Atlantic Ocean. Picture: Getty Images

Fair Isle ferry and Scottish theatre win Levelling Up funding

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack confirmed the use of Section 35 this week.

UK Government in ‘strong position’ if Gender Reform goes to court, academic says

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session in parliament in London. Picture: AP Photo/Frank Augstein

Sunak denies Scotland on 'slippery slope from devolution to direct rule'

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer (left) and Anas Sarwar, leader of the Scottish Labour Party, during a visit to the Stalks & Stem store, a small business in Shawlands, Glasgow. Picture: PA

UK Government move to block legislation 'wrong approach', says Sarwar

Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon smile for the cameras at their meeting last week (Picture: Downing Street)

Readers' Letters: Sturgeon took wrong approach over self-ID

The UK Government has published a range of reasons for its intervention.

Why has the UK Government used section 35 to block gender reform in Scotland?

Former first minister Henry McLeish said the UK government has to "grow up". Picture: Mark Runnacles/Getty

Westminster veto of Scottish gender reform bill could set dangerous precedent

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack claimed he wanted a "constructive way forward".

Alister Jack insists UK Government 'respects' devolution as it blocks GRR

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Picture: Lesley Martin/PA

Sturgeon says UK Government veto on gender reforms has no 'iota of good faith'

Rishi Sunak could be set for a major clash with the Scottish Government, with multiple reports suggesting that he will move to block Scotland’s gender recognition law this week.

Section 35 explained after constitutional crisis sparked

Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross has thrown his weight behind the UK Government’s move to block Holyrood’s controversial reforms of the gender bill saying the legislation “seriously damages the rights of women”.

Douglas Ross backs Westminster’s move to halt Holyrood’s Gender Bill

The UK Government is set to block the bill which would make it easier for Trans people to change their legally recognised gender.

UK Government to block Scottish Parliament’s Gender Recognition Reform

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has shares in a company that received a Covid loan.

SNP claim Alister Jack has ‘questions to answer’ over Covid loan

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Keir Starmer raises 'concerns' about Scotland's controversial gender law

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said the role of the civil service in Scotland was now being looked at.

Civil servants role in Scotland being assessed after Supreme Court verdict

Jeremy Hunt has sought to help those most in need as the economic effects of Covid and the Ukraine War continue (Picture: Hollie Adams/Getty Images)

Hunt's economic plan will get us through the stormy waters ahead – Alister Jack

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is due to given an autumn statement about government taxation and spending on Thursday (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Hunt must not leave rural communities out in the cold over energy price help

The Scotland Secretary should be sacked from his job as he is a “baron-in-waiting”, the Prime Minister has been told.

'Baron-in-waiting' Alister Jack should be sacked

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack is understood to have been nominated for a peerage.

Boris Johnson nominates Alister Jack for peerage

SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford kicked off the debate on Scottish independence

Scottish independence: Alister Jack brands indyref2 papers 'utter pish'

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Outgoing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon leaves the main chamber after her last First Minster's Questions in the main chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Sturgeon officially tenders resignation as First Minister to King Charles III

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Humza Yousaf faces ‘full in-tray’ as half of Scots think country on wrong path