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SNP MSP Willie Coffey and Finance Secretary John Swinney will today step up the fight for Diageo jobs as Mr Swinney visits the Johnnie Walker plant in Kilmarnock.

SNP Home Affairs Spokesperson and MP for Perth and North Perthshire, Pete Wishart has urged the UK Government to follow the lead of the Obama administration and put an immediate stop to the deportation of widows.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has challenged Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy to guarantee that the Labour Government won’t force the closure of any of Scotland’s shipyards after leaked documents revealed plans were being drawn up for the UK Government to make redundancy payments for the potential closure of the Clyde shipyards.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has today welcomed the new EU roaming rules which come into force today (July 1) and hailed it a great boost for Scots holidaymakers.

SNP MSP for Govan and Scotland’s Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is demanding immediate answers from Gordon Brown over secret plans to sell Scottish shipbuilding down the river.

The SNP’s Depute Leader and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has welcomed the results of the TNS-BMRB (formerly TNS System 3) poll conducted for STV’s Politics Now programme which shows that the SNP would boost their number of seats at Holyrood to 57 – an increase of ten.

Commenting on confirmation that the UK Government has ditched immediate plans to part-privatise Royal Mail, SNP Postal Affairs spokesperson Mike Weir MP said the proposals should be permanently abandoned.

SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Angus MacNeil, has welcomed Comhairle nan Eilean Siar councillors, local landowners and officials from Highlands and Islands Enterprise to London. The delegation has travelled down to meet with representatives of the Ministry of Defence and the Scotland Office to discuss the closure of the Hebrides Range.

MSP for Kilmarnock Willie Coffey has today commented on the news that Diageo is cut up to 500 across Scotland.

The SNP has demanded an urgent Commons statement on the future of thousands of shipbuilding jobs after a leaked memo revealed apparent plans to close two yards.