That brings the total arrests so far over the contents of the Epstein files to two. Both British. None in the United States.

Scottish Liberal Democrats are winning again. We are poised to take constituencies off the SNP right across Scotland. But wherever you are, every vote for the Scottish Liberal Democrats on the second peach ballot will deliver change with fairness at its heart.

"A Palestinian boy has died waiting for Israeli forces to approve his travel out of Gaza for medical assistance.. Israel continues to block thousands of Palestinians from seeking urgent medical attention" Israel doesn't just kill Palestinians with bullets & bombs

Liberal Democrats are winning again. We are poised to take constituencies off the SNP right across Scotland. In seats right across the Highlands, in Argyll and Bute, Strathkelvin and Bearsden and Edinburgh Northern, it is only the Liberal Democrats who can beat the SNP.

Incredible that the only surviving Alba Party is the Scottish Labour Party

Was great to be up early this morning to hear @eddavey.libdems.org.uk call the @scotlibdems.org.uk to action for the coming elections

Lovely to have @mpsusanmurray.bsky.social visit the @libdemwomen.bsky.social, @pluslibdems.bsky.social stall yesterday

For any politician, let alone the head of gov/state, to attack judges because he dislikes their judgment in this way is disgraceful. If the SCOTUS has misinterpreted Congress's intent in the Act in question (which I can't see they have) it's open to Congress to amend said Act.

Trump loves suing people.... so the PM should take a leaf out of his book. Starmer should sue the President for illegal damage to the British economy. Don’t worry Donald - we will settle for £100bn, that’s how it works right?

Edinburgh Western MSP @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk speaks at #SLDConf in Edinburgh: "We've secured massive commitments in the #ScotBudget after Labour chose to abstain. We're the antidote to the cynical politics of Reform, and 19 years of a tired SNP government".

Scottish Liberal Democrats get things done. The more MSPs we have, the more we can get done. Because Scotland deserves better. And with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, wherever you are, you can vote for it on your second peach ballot.

Loneliness can have an extremely damaging impact on peoples’ lives. The more people retreat into themselves, the greater the risk of mental and physical illnesses. It’s at the root of so many serious health problems. It’s time we took it seriously as a public health priority.

It's now clear Donald Trump is trying to bully the government into letting the US use UK bases like Diego Garcia to pursue unilateral military action. Keir Starmer needs to stand strong and give Parliament a vote on the use of UK bases by US forces.

Under the SNP, three quarters of newly qualified teachers can’t get the full-time permanent contracts they need to pay the bills, or get a mortgage. It’s absolutely brutal. Many are being forced to work abroad, when they want to teach here, it’s a brain drain.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

In many constituencies across Scotland, we are on the verge of winning against the SNP. But wherever you are, every vote for the Scottish Liberal Democrats on the second peach ballot will deliver change with fairness at its heart.

Hilary Cass is a crackpot. She is to trans healthcare in Britain what RFJ Jr is to vaccines in the US. She is no better.

Tarriffs are taxes that fall on the consumer through prices? If only someone in the field of economics had made this point sometime in the last 150 years.

One simply cannot escape the conclusion that there isn't a single example of trans people existing in public as themselves that Sex Matters or For Women Scotland won't oppose.

Utterly extraordinary that Hilary Cass on the BBC this morning said if some young people had "taken more time" they might not have pursued medical treatments, when her own report last year found that children routinely faced multi-year waiting lists for gender services.

As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

When we refer to the Liberal Democrats, we generally shorten it to “LibDems”. So why don’t we do likewise with ReformUK and refer to them as REFUK? It would have the added benefit of succinctly conveying what they stands for! .

By refusing to even consider a customs union, Keir Starmer himself is the biggest block to closer ties with Europe. Unless he changes that stance, this is all just meaningless blather

The European Court of Human Rights has dealt with over 430,000 applications in the last 10 years. Less than 2% of those related to immigration. And more than 90% of THOSE were dismissed by the Court. Check out our new factsheet on migration and the ECHR👇 🔗 go.coe.int/MJ3B2

Finally, the courts fixing the broken government laws.

Trump is a total moron. The only scam is the one he’s pulling.

Very happy to give a formal quote and explanation of why this is so dishonest to any journalist (not, ahem, currently in my bad books for working for any of the particularly notable queerphobic outlets of the moment) who would be keen to write about it 😊

Trans youth suicides surged when NHS banned puberty blockers, tragic report suggests ➡️ https://bit.ly/4toXdlJ 📷 Getty

Will this end up hiring Sarwar more in the short term?

So Labour elect Streeting, and then he has to resign faster than Truss after even more revelations?

So Downing Street has responded by rolling out a whole set of endorsements and it seems pretty clear to me there is no appetite in the wider PLP for the PM to go either. So was Sarwar just trying to put clear blue water between Scottish and UK Labour? If so this was an inept and unworthy effort.

5/5 PMs with approval ratings of measles isn't just a feature of failed leadership. It's Brexit Britain. There's no money for anything people want and were promised they would have, and no one can blame the people who got us into this mess because they got 52% of the vote (let alone reverse it).

Trump is a vile racist bully. His actions should be condemned without hesitation.

“Everything else had just been for show. The Lib Dem leader also observed that the Poles believed Epstein had been working for Vladimir Putin. In which case, so had Mandelson … Starmer didn’t dare go anywhere near that.”

In the furore about the Epstein files, only Ed Davey has mentioned those women who are the victims in all this.

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Ed Davey asked the question of the day. He asks if the PM is concerned that Mandelson may have been leaking state secrets to a Russian agent. If Epstein shared videos/photo's with Putin of Trump at his "parties", then we're in a very dark place.

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

Thank you Europe

This is bonkers. Mandelson - while he was a British Cabinet Minister - used by Epstein to lobby the US Government on behalf of JPMorgan.

Anas Sarwar dodged my questions about whether he'd had any legal advice a blanket ban would be possible to meet human rights laws. He then inaccurately said the "Equality Act is primary". The U-turn comes after two Labour frontbechers met with a vocal campaign group. www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Only in the UK can we have documentary evidence of documents being leaked, no denial of the leak, but journalists still have to put "alleged" in the headline. Libel law is broken.

who could possibly have predicted? www.ft.com/content/fc3c...

Straight up undiluted Nazi stuff

These allegations are incredibly serious, it is now only right that the police investigate Peter Mandelson for potential misconduct in public office.

In 1999 the Daily Record fought to retain Section 28 by spreading baseless fears about a tiny minority. Scottish Labour stood against overwhelming public opinion and said no, repeal is the right thing to do. If only the 2026 Scottish Labour leadership had an ounce of the courage of the 1999 one.