Clegg rejected the accusation of bullying and said he and Cameron had made it clear that they want direct talks with the Scottish government on the referendum. Former deputy first minister of Scotland Lord Nicol Stephen has called on UK leaders to take...

Nicol Stephen, a Liberal Democrat peer and former party leader in Scotland, said Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Ed Miliband risk handing ammunition to the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP). He spoke out at the end of a week dominated by a...

Salmond telephoned Mr Mackinnon to help set up a meeting with the billionaire’s team – on the same day the Scottish Government announced it was calling in the planning application, originally refused by Aberdeenshire Council. The affair blew up into a...

Nicol Stephen – now Lord Stephen – has been told to withdraw plans for three huge turbines in Aberdeenshire because of factual inaccuracies in his proposals. It is the second time this year that the Liberal Democrat politician’s company – Renewable...