https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&feed=atom&action=historyKenny MacAskill - Revision history2024-03-28T17:54:34ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.2https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=256672&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine at 18:20, 22 December 20222022-12-22T18:20:18Z<p></p>
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</table>Patrick Haseldinehttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=245887&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine at 16:19, 21 June 20222022-06-21T16:19:48Z<p></p>
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</table>Patrick Haseldinehttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=216997&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine at 11:01, 26 July 20212021-07-26T11:01:21Z<p></p>
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</table>Patrick Haseldinehttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=216996&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine: Alba Party's Kenny MacAskill MP calls for the Lord Advocate’s roles to be split2021-07-26T10:54:46Z<p><a href="/wiki/Alba_Party" title="Alba Party">Alba Party</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill" title="Kenny MacAskill">Kenny MacAskill</a> MP calls for the <a href="/wiki/Lord_Advocate" title="Lord Advocate">Lord Advocate</a>’s roles to be split</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On 27 March 2021, Kenny MacAskill announced he was quitting the [[SNP]] to join [[Alex Salmond]]’s new political party and said he will continue serving as an MP after switching over to [[Alba Party]], which is aiming to win seats on Holyrood’s regional lists in the [[2021 Scottish Parliament election]] to create a “supermajority” in favour of [[Scotland]]'s independence from the [[UK]].<ref>''[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kenny-macaskill-alba-party-alex-salmond-b1823337.html "Former Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill defects to Alex Salmond’s new Alba party"]''</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>On 27 March 2021, Kenny MacAskill announced he was quitting the [[SNP]] to join [[Alex Salmond]]’s new political party and said he will continue serving as an MP after switching over to [[Alba Party]], which is aiming to win seats on Holyrood’s regional lists in the [[2021 Scottish Parliament election]] to create a “supermajority” in favour of [[Scotland]]'s independence from the [[UK]].<ref>''[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kenny-macaskill-alba-party-alex-salmond-b1823337.html "Former Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill defects to Alex Salmond’s new Alba party"]''</ref></div></td></tr>
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</table>Patrick Haseldinehttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=207068&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine: Former Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill defects to Alex Salmond’s new Alba Party2021-03-27T15:04:04Z<p>Former Scottish justice secretary <a href="/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill" title="Kenny MacAskill">Kenny MacAskill</a> defects to <a href="/wiki/Alex_Salmond" title="Alex Salmond">Alex Salmond</a>’s new <a href="/wiki/Alba_Party" title="Alba Party">Alba Party</a></p>
<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=207068&oldid=184419">Show changes</a>Patrick Haseldinehttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=184419&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine: Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi case review may not provide closure but there are people who might be able to - Kenny MacAskill2020-03-19T11:43:23Z<p><a href="/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103" title="Pan Am Flight 103">Lockerbie bombing</a>: <a href="/wiki/Megrahi" class="mw-redirect" title="Megrahi">Megrahi</a> case review may not provide closure but there are people who might be able to - <a href="/wiki/Kenny_MacAskill" title="Kenny MacAskill">Kenny MacAskill</a></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On 11 March 2020, the [[Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission]] referred the case of the late [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]] to the High Court of Justiciary for a posthumous appeal against his conviction. Kenny MacAskill wrote to ''[[The Scotsman]]'':</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Patrick Haseldinehttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=110452&oldid=prevRobin: a2017-04-05T12:33:30Z<p>a</p>
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</table>Robinhttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=96981&oldid=prevRobin: Text replacement - "1980s " to "1980s "2016-09-16T05:18:31Z<p>Text replacement - "1980s " to "<a href="/wiki/1980s" title="1980s">1980s</a> "</p>
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</table>Robinhttps://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Kenny_MacAskill&diff=85481&oldid=prevPatrick Haseldine: /* Bungled Lockerbie book */2016-05-16T14:33:21Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Bungled Lockerbie book</span></span></p>
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