The SNP leader made the admission as she addressed the Holyrood parliament and tore into the Prime Minister after his election win. The SNP itself now holds 47 of the 59 seats in Scotland.

The Labour leadership challenger made the comment at a hustings event last week and provoked fury from the party as she labelled its members 'Tories wrapped up in nationalist clothing'.

Former deputy leader of the SNP Jim Sillars, 82, has said that the allegations against against Mr Salmond were the 'dirtiest blow' he has ever seen delivered in his 60 years of political life.

Wales manager Ryan Giggs faces a dressing-room rebellion as his side struggles to qualify for Euro 2020. Defeats by Croatia and Hungary have left Wales fourth of five teams in Group E.

Blaise Matuidi is reportedly set for a contract extension after playing an important role in a Juventus side which sits top of Serie A. The Frenchman has been with the club since August 2017.

Both Mr Starmer and Ms Long-Bailey are at 3/1 to become leader if Mr Corbyn steps down as expected with Yvette Cooper in second position at 8/1, according to Ladbrokes.

Keir Starmer will go into the second stage of the Labour leadership battle as favourite after scoring backing from dozens of fellow MPs.

Rebecca Long-Bailey (pictured), MP for Salford and Eccles is in the front race to become the Labour leader, a shock poll revealed.

The Birmingham Yardley MP announced she was calling time on her attempt to replace him after her campaign ground to a halt while vital trade union backing went to her rivals.

Rebecca Long-Bailey cemented her place in the final round of the Labour leadership contest this afternoon as she was endorsed by the Fire Brigades Union.

Bridget Jones's love interest Mr Darcy is rumoured to have been based on new Labour Party leader Keir Starmer.

Elizabeth Sanders, 26, from Missouri, has had weight struggles since high school; she weighed 196lbs in high school, but at her heaviest, she weighed 272lbs.

Stunning photos show Kim Jon-Un sat astride a magnificent white horse and riding amid snow fall in Mount Paektu, a mountain on the border between North Korea and China.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the US has indefinitely postponed a joint military exercise with South Korea in an 'act of goodwill' toward North Korea at a press conference on Sunday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the women's company under Unit 5492 of the Korean People's Army stationed at the country's southwestern coast.

The North Korean dictator cut the ribbon at the Yangdok County Hot Spring Cultural Recreation Centre in South Pyongan Province. It came as Hwang In-cheol demanded his father be released.

The South said there were no 'unusual movements' in North Korea and that Kim was thought to be with his aides near Pyongyang, not recovering at a villa as reports had claimed.

US President Donald Trump has given a detailed account of how al-Baghdadi was chased by special forces and army dogs before getting trapped in a tunnel during the raid in Syria.

Diane Foley thanked Donald Trump via the James Foley Foundation page after the president announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Sunday from Washington DC. 

JOHN R. BRADLEY: He may have been the world's most wanted terrorist and the supremo of global jihad, but Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was all but a mythical figure to those hunting him.

Pete Souza, an outspoken critic of Trump, tweeted the photo and noted that the timestamp indicated it was taken at 17.05pm on Saturday - over 90 minutes after the 3.30pm raid reportedly took place.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid Saturday in Syria. Retired admiral James Stavridis expects Christmas markets 'to be a rich target'.

After President Trump announced Sunday morning that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'died like a dog' in an overnight raid Robert J. O'Neill took to Twitter to bid adieu to the ISIS leader.

Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne said sensitive information was found when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by US forces in Syria on Sunday.

Mohammed Ali Sajet, one of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's closest confidants, provided key information that led U.S. forces to the ISIS leader's compound in Syria.

Kurdish intelligence operatives who supervised the informant passed the intelligence on to American forces before they raided Baghdadi's safe house in Syria on Saturday

A eyewitness said they saw Abdelhamid Abaaoud standing in a doorway shouting down his phone for around an hour on November 13 - the night 90 people were slaughtered in Paris's Bataclan theatre.

Charaffe al Mouadan, a French Syrian-based ISIS leader with 'direct link' to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man behind the Paris attacks was killed in an air strike on Christmas Eve.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud's behavior after the carnage on November 13 will be of concern to those allowing thousands of foreign down-and-outs, including many Roma gypsies, into Paris.

Housing Secretary James Brokenshire (pictured) warned that with 13 MPs having already declared - and potentially more to follow - there could end up being more runners than the Grand National.

This is the time when the business leaders will have to maintain their mental balance, and will have to come out of this with a solution, believes Adarsh Gupta of Liberty Enterprises

Rory McIlroy bounced back from a disappointing performance on Friday to come to within two strokes of leaders John Rahm and McIlroy, who is chasing a third victory at the DP World Tour Championship.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: There is still a window before the Ryder Cup organisers make a final decision on whether it will go ahead as planned. But it's fair to say the mood has changed.

Vladimir Putin has taken aim at the race to succeed Theresa May as he questioned how a democratic country could install a new prime minister without a national vote.

Claude Chirac bowed her head towards the tombstone at the Paris cemetery where France 's former head of state was laid to rest today.

The EU is said to be split by issues such as whether Britain should be forced to return the Elgin Marbles (pictured) to Greece as UK negotiators privately mock the delays and confusion in the Brussels camp.

Donald Trump has become the first world leader to call for Tokyo 2020 to be postponed by a year - on the same day the Olympic torch was lit without spectators in Greece.

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Richard Braine (pictured), the chairman of the party's West London branch, won 53 per cent of the vote and becomes Ukip's sixth permanent leader in a turbulent three years.

Despite Adam Schiff leading the House impeachment inquiry into US President Trump allegedly withholding aid from Ukraine, not one of the three contestants recognised him.

Startups with international ambitions eventually face one choice that others might take for granted: What language will they use?When Florian Reuter joined the drone taxi startup Volocopter as CEO, one of his key initiatives was to get the entire business to use English instead of its native German.The move reflected the company's ambition to be the international leader of a new mode of transportation, rather than operating primarily within Germany.Since making the switch in 2017, Volocopter has grown from 15 people to over 150, with plans to build a team of thousands to bring personal air travel to cities around the world.This article is part of a series on growing a small business, called "From 1 to 100."Countless decisions go into scaling a startup. Many of those choices are explicit,

Francisco Rosado, head of the Bronx chapter of the Pagan Motorcycle Club, was gunned down in the borough's Allerton neighborhood at around 3.20pm on Saturday, law enforcement sources say.

A newly released surveillance video shows the moment two men wearing surgical masks jumped out of a Jeep with guns drawn and attacked Francisco Rosado, of the Pagan Motorcycle Club.

The widow and daughter of Francisco Rosado, 51, the slain leader of The Bronx chapter of Pagan's Motorcycle Club, have described him as a loving family man who adored his kids and grandkids.

LIVERPOOL 2-1 BOURNEMOUTH - ROB DRAPER AT ANFIELD: Ryan Fraser was in, clear on goal. Yet he only had a split second to react, as Adrian was charging from his goal-line.

Donald Trump struck back at Barack Obama's condemnation of rhetoric he's used, arguing he's the 'least racist person,' and used an edited quote from a 'Fox & Friends' host to back up his point.  

Barack Obama shared a video from Joe Biden and claimed only he could help Americans through the pandemic

The right-wing politician, who took over as the Ukip leader at the weekend, referred to the mayor as 'Siddique Khan', before adding: 'Apologies, I often confuse him with the leader of the 7/7 bombers.'