user, Author at Our Scottish Future

An offer of false promises isn’t good enough for Scotland’s future

user — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:12:03 +0000

Early on the morning of May 6, 2011, David Cameron lit the touchpaper that has led to nearly a decade of constitutional upheaval for Scotland. He signalled acceptance on the part of the coalition government that the majority won by the SNP in the Scottish parliamentary elections held the day before was effectively a mandate for a […]

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Gordon Brown: “Let’s Unite Around a British Way Forward”

user — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:31:00 +0000

Battered by Covid, threatened by nationalism and uncertain what the promise of a post- Brexit ‘Global Britain’ adds up to, the United Kingdom must urgently rediscover what holds it together and sort out what is driving us apart. The status quo is not working and the world’s most successful experiment in multinational living is under […]

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Scotland’s Testing Programme “Worst Record In UK”

user — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:56:20 +0000

More than two-thirds of Scotland’s Coronavirus cases are being missed by the country’s testing programme – the worst record of all four UK home nations, a new study reveals today. Examining the last six weeks of 2020, the report finds that, according to Office of National Statistics data, a daily average of 43,379 Scots had […]

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Scottish Vaccine Plan “Behind the Curve”, Warns Report

user — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 14:52:08 +0000

Paper backs more coordination between Scottish and UK Governments. The majority of Scots could be vaccinated by summer next year but only if the Scottish Government radically steps up its preparations, a new report says today. Published by the think-tank Our Scottish Future, the paper warns that the government is “behind the curve” in its preparations to roll […]

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Call for Scottish-UK Government “Testing Summit” to Boost Coronavirus Response

user — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:50:06 +0000

The Scottish and UK Governments should convene an urgent ‘virtual summit’ to agree a joint plan to test, trace and isolate COVID 19 in Scotland, an open letter signed by union leaders and Care Home chiefs declares today. The letter, brought together by the think-tank Our Scottish Future and addressed to both the First Minister and Prime […]

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New Our Scottish Future Report Urges Radical Acceleration of Coronavirus Testing

user — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:36:09 +0000

*WITH LESS THAN TWO PER CENT OF SCOTS TESTED FOR CORONAVIRUS, COUNTRY NEEDS TO RAMP IT UP, SAYS NEW THINK-TANK REPORT *SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT’S 15,500-A-DAY TARGET BY END OF MAY ‘NOT NEARLY ENOUGH’, SAYS GORDON BROWN, WHO ADDS IT IS A SCANDAL AND TRAGEDY THAT CARE HOME RESIDENTS AND WORKERS ARE NOT BEING TESTED REGULARLY AS MATTER OF […]

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Coronavirus and the Constitution

user — Thu, 14 May 2020 19:35:07 +0000

Is devolution problematic to crisis management? In this guest blog, Jim Gallagher provides an overview of the UK and devolved governments’ approach to COVID-19 and discusses how the pandemic is likely to impact upon devolution in the UK. With the UK’s united approach to managing the coronavirus crisis apparently fraying at the edges, questions are […]

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