Ash Regan: Independent Voice for Scotland

0:00Ash Regan, the 10-year MSP for the S10P who's now running independent in Edinburgh and Lothian's East, just dropped her mini-manifesto called, Making. Holyrood work for Scotland. She's calling out the S10P for losing focus, slamming them on women's rights, pushing the shut down the oil industry, and dragging feet on independence. Her big pitch is fixing Parliament with evidence-based laws that actually deliver results, not just talk. She started in the S&P, even ran for leadership, but quit as a minister over their gender-recognition reform bill, then jumped to Alex Samman's Alba. Party, after Samman passed and clashes with Alba leaders, she went fully independent. Now she's got volunteers helping spread her word, no party machine needed. Folks are fed up with the last Holyrood session, full of bickering and zero wins for Scotland, she says. Public saw waste while real issues like women's safety got ignored. With the Supreme Court ruling last April that sex means biological sex inequality laws,

1:00she warns the S&P still fighting it in courts, using. Tax pair cash, instead of fixing problems like males and women's prisons. Her manifesto zeros in on protecting women and kids, criminalizing buying sex, safeguarding single-sex spaces, banning phones and schools, and rolling, out-free primary meals. For Scotland, it's about energy security, better infrastructure, and judging policies on outcomes. Locally, she wants affordable homes, fixed roads, and NHS dentist access in Edinburgh and Lothians. Regans all in on being that independent voice, linking evidence to action for real change on women, children, and competent governance. She's ready to hold the line and make Holyrood deliver again. That's your update from Edinburgh News Today, powered by AI.