Alex Salmond's coffin was draped in a Saltire as the plane bringing him home to Scotland took off from North Macedonia. Alex Salmond 's Saltire-draped coffin was loaded on board a charter flight to Scotland Alex Salmond pictured at a cultural forum event in North Macedonia last Friday Former SNP MP and Alba Party chairwoman, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, was among those …
Ministers are under growing pressure to authorise the use of an RAF plane to repatriate Alex Salmond's body from North Macedonia. Sir David Davis, the veteran Tory MP, is among those to have pushed the Foreign Office to use RAF planes to bring home his close friend's body. Ministers are under growing pressure to authorise the use of an RAF …
Though I utterly opposed Alex Salmond’s divisive nationalist dogma, I am not going to use his death to launch an ad hominem attack on him. It’s understood he had aspirations to rejoin Holyrood in 2026 as an Alba MSP – and indeed, I would have thoroughly enjoyed watching his finely tuned debating skills reduce to rubble those ineffectual and frankly …
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “It is right that we recognise Alex’s service to our …
