James Walker
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Labour care minister Stephen Kinnock (below) accepted a £12,873 California trip paid for by Palo Alto Networks — a firm with active NHS contracts.
The 5-day Napa Valley visit was classed as a “team-building trip” for the company’s board, which includes Kinnock’s wife.
Details 👇
The 5-day Napa Valley visit was classed as a “team-building trip” for the company’s board, which includes Kinnock’s wife.
Details 👇
September 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Labour care minister Stephen Kinnock (below) accepted a £12,873 California trip paid for by Palo Alto Networks — a firm with active NHS contracts.
The 5-day Napa Valley visit was classed as a “team-building trip” for the company’s board, which includes Kinnock’s wife.
Details 👇
The 5-day Napa Valley visit was classed as a “team-building trip” for the company’s board, which includes Kinnock’s wife.
Details 👇
🧵Yohan, who came to Scotland from Sri Lanka in 2022 with his wife and child (below), is trained, qualified, and working in care in Perth.
He does 60+ hour weeks taking care of the city’s elderly people. But the changes mean he will soon have to leave ...
He does 60+ hour weeks taking care of the city’s elderly people. But the changes mean he will soon have to leave ...
July 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🧵Yohan, who came to Scotland from Sri Lanka in 2022 with his wife and child (below), is trained, qualified, and working in care in Perth.
He does 60+ hour weeks taking care of the city’s elderly people. But the changes mean he will soon have to leave ...
He does 60+ hour weeks taking care of the city’s elderly people. But the changes mean he will soon have to leave ...
🧵THREAD: Labour’s new immigration rules are a ticking time bomb for Scotland's care sector.
And for Perth + Kinross – the region with the highest proportion of elderly people in the country – it could be a disaster 👇
And for Perth + Kinross – the region with the highest proportion of elderly people in the country – it could be a disaster 👇
July 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🧵THREAD: Labour’s new immigration rules are a ticking time bomb for Scotland's care sector.
And for Perth + Kinross – the region with the highest proportion of elderly people in the country – it could be a disaster 👇
And for Perth + Kinross – the region with the highest proportion of elderly people in the country – it could be a disaster 👇
🚨 Great to be shortlisted for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social media award for my coverage of the Gaza family visa campaign, including this investigation into the Palestinians killed while waiting for the Home Office to waive its cruel fingerprint rules: www.thenational.scot/news/2420566...
March 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨 Great to be shortlisted for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social media award for my coverage of the Gaza family visa campaign, including this investigation into the Palestinians killed while waiting for the Home Office to waive its cruel fingerprint rules: www.thenational.scot/news/2420566...
📷: What changed?
This is Keir Starmer pictured at Scottish Labour conference in 2021 with two Waspi campaigners holding a sign saying he supports "fair and fast compensation" for 1950s women.
Today, four years later, and as PM, he gives them nothing ...
This is Keir Starmer pictured at Scottish Labour conference in 2021 with two Waspi campaigners holding a sign saying he supports "fair and fast compensation" for 1950s women.
Today, four years later, and as PM, he gives them nothing ...
December 17, 2024 at 4:36 PM
📷: What changed?
This is Keir Starmer pictured at Scottish Labour conference in 2021 with two Waspi campaigners holding a sign saying he supports "fair and fast compensation" for 1950s women.
Today, four years later, and as PM, he gives them nothing ...
This is Keir Starmer pictured at Scottish Labour conference in 2021 with two Waspi campaigners holding a sign saying he supports "fair and fast compensation" for 1950s women.
Today, four years later, and as PM, he gives them nothing ...
EXC: US-style mega farms in Scotland are fuelling a rise in deadly ammonia pollution.
3000 deaths a year could be prevented by halving UK emissions.
But instead, in Scotland at least, air emissions are at their highest since 2011.
Read more about it below 👇
3000 deaths a year could be prevented by halving UK emissions.
But instead, in Scotland at least, air emissions are at their highest since 2011.
Read more about it below 👇
December 1, 2024 at 12:38 PM
EXC: US-style mega farms in Scotland are fuelling a rise in deadly ammonia pollution.
3000 deaths a year could be prevented by halving UK emissions.
But instead, in Scotland at least, air emissions are at their highest since 2011.
Read more about it below 👇
3000 deaths a year could be prevented by halving UK emissions.
But instead, in Scotland at least, air emissions are at their highest since 2011.
Read more about it below 👇
EXC: The UK Government is set to discuss providing funding (via the National Wealth Fund) to help reinstate a ferry link between Scotland and mainland Europe.
Labour MP Graeme Downie has been in contact with the Chancellor and told me he will set up a Treasury meeting ASAP👇
Labour MP Graeme Downie has been in contact with the Chancellor and told me he will set up a Treasury meeting ASAP👇
November 27, 2024 at 10:52 AM
EXC: The UK Government is set to discuss providing funding (via the National Wealth Fund) to help reinstate a ferry link between Scotland and mainland Europe.
Labour MP Graeme Downie has been in contact with the Chancellor and told me he will set up a Treasury meeting ASAP👇
Labour MP Graeme Downie has been in contact with the Chancellor and told me he will set up a Treasury meeting ASAP👇