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Simon Johnson

Scottish Political Editor
  • SNP’s Michael Matheson lied about £11k iPad bill to protect his children

    Scottish Health Secretary said he didn’t want his sons, who racked up the charges watching live football, drawn into the scandal

    By Simon Johnson 21 Nov 2023, 7:02pm
    Health Secretary Michael Matheson told the press at the he had run up the extraordinary £10,935.74 bill solely through conducting parliamentary business
  • SNP’s Michael Matheson blames teenage sons for racking up £11k bill on parliamentary iPad

    Health Secretary claimed he had solely used device for work and provider EE ‘was unable to give further details of what led to charges’

    By Simon Johnson 16 Nov 2023, 5:02pm
    Michael Matheson, the SNP's Health Secretary,  leaves the chamber after giving a personal statement to Scottish Parliament
  • SNP’s Michael Matheson accused of running up most of £11,000 iPad bill watching Old Firm game

    MSPs point out most of the Scottish Health Secretary's bill relates to a public holiday, during which a Rangers vs Celtic derby was played

    By Simon Johnson 16 Nov 2023, 9:49am
    Michael Matheson
  • Ultra-strict Glasgow rakes in £500,000 in LEZ fines in first few months

    Largest local authority in Scotland issues 20,000 fines with scheme campaigners call ‘ludicrous, cruel and bloody-minded’

    By Simon Johnson 15 Nov 2023, 7:19pm
    Glasgow's LEZ scheme bans certain cars from entering the city centre
  • SNP’s Michael Matheson faces vote of no confidence if he refuses to hand over iPad

    The Scottish Health Secretary accrued £11,000 in roaming charges on a parliamentary device while on holiday

    By Simon Johnson 14 Nov 2023, 6:33pm
    Douglas Ross gives a speech at Holywood
  • SNP admits it overestimated Scotland's offshore wind capacity

    Claim that Scotland could produce 25 per cent of Europe's offshore wind potential is downgraded to 7 per cent

    By Simon Johnson 13 Nov 2023, 5:06pm
    The largest wind turbine farm in the UK, Black Law wind farm, near Carluke, in Scotland
  • Scottish civil servants given ‘chill out hour’ every week at ‘£7m cost to taxpayers’

    Critics urge the SNP to end the scheme, which gives staff time to do yoga, read, paint or leave work early

    By Simon Johnson 13 Nov 2023, 4:38pm
    yoga
  • SNP members less independent than my sheep, says expelled MP

    Crofter Angus MacNeil blames Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘intolerant’ leadership for creating a lack of ‘independent’ thought

    By Simon Johnson 13 Nov 2023, 12:01am
    Angus MacNeil will continues in Parliament as an independet MP working with the Alba party
  • Scotland’s largest health board a formal suspect in corporate homicide investigation

    NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde likely to face charges into the deaths of three children and an adult at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

    By Simon Johnson 12 Nov 2023, 9:39pm
    Milly Main with her mother Kimberley Darroch
  • Scottish minister ‘could face police inquiry over £11k iPad bill’ if it came from personal use

    Tory MSP Murdo Fraser says SNP minister’s claims are ‘relatively easy to check’

    By Simon Johnson 12 Nov 2023, 7:32pm
    Michael Matheson has agreed to pay back charges
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  • SNP Westminster leader accused of ‘disrespect’ after not singing national anthem

    Stephen Flynn remained silent as UK’s other political party leaders and former prime ministers sang at Cenotaph

    By Simon Johnson 12 Nov 2023, 1:50pm
    Stephen Flynn was accused of holding his wreath upside down but it was the Scottish version
  • Scottish Health Secretary ‘shamed’ into refunding taxpayer £11,000 iPad charges bill

    Tories said Michael Matheson ‘had the audacity’ to expect the public purse to cover the costs until Telegraph disclosure forced about-turn

    By Simon Johnson 10 Nov 2023, 7:40pm
    Michael Matheson
  • Statue for war-hero pigeon that saved lost bomber crew

    Relatives of Winkie's owner unveil bronze cast near where it lived on Scotland's east coast

    By Simon Johnson 10 Nov 2023, 6:17pm
    The state was unveiled by relatives of the bird's owner, George Ross
  • SNP minister should not pay back £11k of charges, says Humza Yousaf

    Michael Matheson has allegedly refused to make a personal contribution to his £11k data roaming charge

    By Simon Johnson 9 Nov 2023, 6:40pm
    Michael Matheson
  • Humza Yousaf ‘misled Scottish Parliament’ over WhatsApps

    First Minister has said Covid inquiry requested the messages in September when they actually asked in February

    By Simon Johnson 8 Nov 2023, 9:35pm
    First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf admitted his Government were asked for WhatsApp messages months ago
  • SNP minister runs up £10k roaming fee on parliamentary iPad – then leaves bill for taxpayers

    Public must pay after £120k-a-year Health Secretary Michael Matheson spent Christmas in Morocco but failed to log on to wifi

    By Simon Johnson 8 Nov 2023, 5:38pm
    Michael Matheson, Health Secretary, during Topical Questions in the Scottish Parliament, on Tuesday
  • Humza Yousaf backs Armistice Day pro-Palestine marches

    By Jack Maidment 6 Nov 2023, 6:08pm
    Humza Yousaf, the Scottish First Minister, is pictured today during a visit to the new Life Sciences Innovation Hub in Dundee
  • Labour records first lead over SNP in Westminster for a decade, poll finds

    Scottish voters ready to punish ‘failing’ Conservatives and Nationalists as support for independence drifts away

    By Simon Johnson 1 Nov 2023, 9:03pm
    In a blow to Humza Yousaf, 3 per cent of SNP voters said they would vote for the party because it ‘has the best leader’
  • Nicola Sturgeon refuses to say whether she kept Covid WhatsApp messages

    Former first minister made promise to keep all messages but walked away when asked whether any had been deleted

    By Simon Johnson 31 Oct 2023, 8:49pm
    Nicola Sturgeon answering questions about her Covid WhatsApp messages
  • Keir Starmer ‘hurt’ Muslim communities with Israel comments, says Anas Sarwar

    The Scottish Labour leader crticised Sir Keir's comments suggesting Israel had a 'right' to restrict water and aid to Gaza

    By Simon Johnson 31 Oct 2023, 3:46pm
    Anas Sarwar
  • Humza Yousaf puts pressure on Sturgeon to come clean over WhatsApp messages

    First Minister says he has retained all his messages from the period being examined by inquiries and will finally hand them over

    By Simon Johnson 30 Oct 2023, 5:33pm
    Humza Yousaf, the First Minister, said he is ‘more than happy’ to hand over messages to the public inquiry
  • Calls for Nicola Sturgeon to be fined or jailed if her Covid WhatsApp messages were deleted

    Former first minister and her successor Humza Yousaf said to be among senior SNP figures to confirm their communications had been wiped

    By Simon Johnson 29 Oct 2023, 4:32pm
    Former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the media on her return to the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, following her arrest in the police investigation into the SNP's finances. Picture date: Tuesday June 20, 2023
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