EXCLUSIVE: The texts that led to the resignation of Paul Ovenden, Keir Starmer’s director of political strategy, were shown to BBC Newsnight two months ago, it has been revealed

EXCLUSIVE: Labour MP Clive Lewis has said he 'increasingly' believes the UK Government does not have the 'intellectual and political capability' to take on the threat of the far right

EXCLUSIVE: Whisky distillery chiefs have called on the UK and Scottish governments to keep up the pressure on Donald Trump on tariffs after the US president departed the UK with no sign of an improved deal emerging

An SNP MP has appealed to the Home Office to allow Gazan students to bring young children with them to the UK

Remember Labour promising 1000 jobs for Aberdeen via GB Energy? For the first time, we've seen how the investment body is doing on its hiring spree. So far, after 14 months: 13 staff in Aberdeen. There are more GBE staff in London than all of Scotland🥀 www.thenational.scot/news/2548045...

Labour have been condemned over a £750 million investment into the IDF-linked tech giant Palantir

Massive Attack, Kneecap and Primal Scream are among 400 artists and labels who have backed a campaign to pull their music from streaming platforms in Israel over the ongoing genocide in Gaza

A Question Time audience member corrected broadcaster Fiona Bruce’s explanation of the suspension of popular US late-night host Jimmy Kimmel 👇

Was very grateful to join The Skotia team to discuss the media's failings on Gaza and The National's own reporting challenges - you can listen now via Spotify. open.spotify.com/episode/77jl...

BREAKING: Jeremy Corbyn is seeking legal advice after an 'unauthorised' email was sent to Your Party supporters, encouraging them to sign up to become members In a letter - not signed by Zarah Sultana - he says all direct debits set up should be 'immediately cancelled'

BREAKING: Douglas Ross has claimed that he was 'physically assaulted and verbally abused' by SNP MSP Jamie Hepburn in Holyrood. The Scottish Tory MSP raised the issue after FMQs today.

NEW: Far-right thugs are creating a "culture of fear" in Falkirk, it has been warned, after they falsely accused an anti-racism activist of being a paedophile and set up outside his home. Police were forced to intervene to protect the activist's safety www.thenational.scot/news/2547591...

Live updates all day: We're in Geneva as independence campaigners are taking a "decolonisation" campaign to the UN Follow along here 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2547622...

NEW: A company with active NHS contracts paid for a Labour health minister's luxury trip to California, The National can reveal Palo Alto Networks, which supplies cybersecurity tools to the NHS, covered Stephen Kinnock and his wife's expenses of £12,873 www.thenational.scot/news/2547567...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Is sharing this image a crime?

NEW: Calls are mounting for the Scottish Parliament's Building Bridges With Israel group to be suspended Mothers Against Genocide have written to the Presiding Officer over the matter Members of the group include Fergus Ewing and Douglas Ross www.thenational.scot/news/2547547...

Mohamed Shalaby was working at BBC Verify ... until he decided to quit due to the broadcaster's coverage of the killing of Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif He is now speaking out in detail about how differently the BBC approaches Israel and Palestine www.thenational.scot/news/2547271...

Wild facts in this on Trump's visit: - Trump was welcomed with music from the Household Cavalry who were wearing a uniform made from pure gold thread - The scale of this huge military ceremony is the largest for a UK state visit in living memory Why?? www.thenational.scot/news/2547304...

BREAKING: Police have reportedly confiscated an advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein This story is developing

Tomorrow's front page 📰 End the denial

Former BBC journalist Mohamed Shalaby quit over the corporation's Gaza coverage. He explains what went on behind the scenes in the BBC newsrooms ⬇️

LIVE: We'll be bringing you all the updates as Donald Trump's official state visit to the UK is met with widespread protests

Stephen Flynn was reprimanded in the Commons for quoting Peter Mandelson, who told journalists to 'f*** off' when asked about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein 👇

BREAKING: An SNP bid to scrap the two-child benefit cap has passed the first stage in the House of Commons. The result was 89 Aye, 79 No - with the majority of Labour MPs abstaining.

🚨Something a little different from the team this week as we head to Geneva for the 60th session of the Human Rights Council There, Liberation Scotland are pushing to have the UN "decolonise" Scotland www.thenational.scot/politics/254...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Scottish NHS welcomes first Gaza children for treatment

NEW: UK spy planes over Gaza are not recording Israeli military actions but 'only and solely' looking for hostages, Labour ministers have insisted Read more here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

NEW: Keir Starmer suffers fresh blow as top aide resigns over sexual remarks about veteran MP Diane Abbott

BREAKING: The first children coming to Scotland from Gaza for medical treatment have arrived. The Health Secretary confirmed they had landed safely along with their families Read more: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

NEW: A Syrian refugee family in Paisley is pleading with the Home Office to stop blocking them from reuniting with their dying son The family is petrified their son Mohamed, who has blood cancer, will die before his Home Office appeal is even heard www.thenational.scot/news/2546845...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Scotland at 'critical point' amid rise of the far right

EXCLUSIVE: Scotland is at an 'inflection point' amid rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and far-right protests gaining traction, an expert has said

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Israel is 'drunk on impunity', says Gaza surgeon

EXCLUSIVE: Two Israelis, whose family members were killed in the October 7 attacks, have called for the world to recognise the state of Palestine 🗣️ 'If we as the Jewish people demanded recognition for our own country, why is it not legitimate for the Palestinians to claim their own state?'

Elon Musk has been accused of 'incitement' after calling for 'revolutionary government change' at a far-right rally led by agitator Tommy Robinson 🗣️'Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons'

NEW: The SNP have launched a motion demanding Starmer strip Peter Mandelson of his Labour peerage with immediate effect. Despite his sacking, Mandelson remains a Lord - and thus is still on the public payroll www.thenational.scot/news/2546149...

NEW: A Scottish Tory MSP has alleged there is a “link” between the rhetoric of SNP politicians and the killing of right-wing American activist Charlie Kirk …

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson has been sacked from his role as UK ambassador to the US It comes after it was revealed the Labour peer called the late Jeffrey Epstein his 'best pal' and wrote messages of support while he was under investigation for paedophilia offences

Who could have forseen that bringing a known friend of world renowned pedophile Jeffrey Epstein into the UK Government was a bad idea? These emails are truly sickening. Mandelson must go but questions now have to be asked of Starmer's awful judgement www.thenational.scot/news/2545743...

Labour grandee Peter Mandelson told Jeffrey Epstein 'Your friends stay with you and love you' while the billionaire was on the hook for paedophilia, emails have revealed ⬇️

Three pictures which won't age well. There's diplomacy, then there's cowardice. We know which this is.

NEW: Police are investigating a "hate crime" against a Muslim schoolgirl in a Glasgow suburb It's alleged that the young girl was walking home from school when she was assaulted by a man who also made threatening comments about Muslims www.thenational.scot/news/2545680...

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Starmer rolls out red carpet for genocide

BREAKING: John Swinney is set to meet US president Donald Trump this evening The pair will hold talks in the Oval Office

NEW: Calls for Peter Mandelson to quit after it emerged he called Epstein his "best pal" "There were a lot of girls and young women who suffered because of Epstein, and they deserve accountability and justice." www.thenational.scot/news/2545382...

BREAKING: Keir Starmer is meeting Israeli president Isaac Herzog this week, Downing Street has confirmed A spokesperson said the Prime Minister would raise the 'horrific suffering we're witnessing' in Gaza during the meeting

Two really mental things: - That the British press seems largely uninterested in this story - That we've always known about Peter Mandelson's friendship with Epstein and everyone, including Keir Starmer, is just like 🤷‍♀️ www.thenational.scot/news/2545307...

Nicola Sturgeon has said she believes that Reform UK and the Conservatives are trying their best to abolish the Scottish Parliament

Wes Streeting has defended Lord Peter Mandelson’s relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein after it was revealed the Labour peer called the convicted paedophile his 'best pal'

Keir Starmer is to tell his newly reshuffled Cabinet they a Government of 'patriots' this morning