Jeremy Corbyn rules out deal with SNP in hung parliament

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has pledged to scrap the Lifetime ISA (LISA) and maintain the triple lock in its 2017 general election manifesto.

"There's so much more to Scotland than just the SNP", Davidson told AFP during a campaign stop in the Perthshire hills this week in which she drove and posed on top of a Land Rover Defender off-road SUV.

When Sturgeon announced her intention to hold another vote on independence at the beginning of March, the first minister specifically laid out a plan to hold the vote between the autumn of 2018 and the spring of 2019.

In his interview with Bauer and Global radio station, Mr Corbyn was asked what he would do with regard to Scotland were he to become Prime Minister: "I'll obviously open discussions with the government in Scotland and listen very carefully to what the Scottish Parliament says", he said.

"I was probably the only unionist protestant who was marrying an Irish catholic that they could find to advocate gay marriage", she said.

Ms Sturgeon denied she was becoming a more divisive figure on the doorstep, adding: "The baby is much cuter than me".

Nicola Sturgeon's personal approval rating have gone into freefall making her the least popular Scottish party leader, a new poll has found.

The document adds: "In such circumstances, any continued Tory attempts to block the people of Scotland having a choice on their future, when the options are clear, and on a timescale determined by the Scottish Parliament, would be democratically unsustainable".

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) welcomed the statement from the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon that "next year and future years we will not assume a 1 per cent pay cap" for public sector workers alongside a commitment to work with trade unions.

"The SNP will continue to seek devolution of immigration powers so that Scotland can have an immigration policy that works for our economy and society", it pledges, echoing English MPs led by Labour's Chuka Umunna who want left-wing strongholds to be able to set their own immigration policies.

The survey, carried out for pollster Ipsos Mori for STV, found that the First Minister's rating has collapsed from +14 to -4 since September past year.

In a speech in Perth today (Tuesday 30 May) the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon outlined her party's position in contrast to the ideology of the UK Tory party and its Scottish party, which she claimed was "representing the hardest of Brexit, damaging Scotland and its economy".

"In Scotland, only the SNP can keep the Tories in check".

"This was a exhausted launch by a First Minister who has failed to give people a reason for voting for her party". Today's manifesto launch will set out the real alternative to Tory cuts and Brexit chaos.

If it is repealed and replaced with a British Bill of Human Rights then it could need a Legislative Consent Memorandum under the Sewel Convention, which is supposed to stop Westminster legislating on devolved matters in Scotland without the consent of the Scottish Parliament.