When is a black hole in the UK’s finances not a black hole? Whenever Chancellor Rachel Reeves gets caught misleading the public it would seem.

Do we now have an existential problem with truth and honesty in public life?

To paraphrase the opening scene in Macbeth, where fair is foul and foul is fair? Not just at Westminster but here at Holyrood too.

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The Scottish Information Commission has recently required the Scottish government to release certain documents relating to the investigation whether Nicola Sturgeon breached the Ministerial Code as First Minister.

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