Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has called for "a new spirit of teamwork to help the country through the economic storm" in his first major speech of the year.

How interesting to read that Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy is displeased at the use of the Saltire and believes that the Scottish Government has been slow to use the Brit embassy network to sell Homecoming Scotland... well, perhaps Mr Murphy could make a start by having a Homecoming Scotland weblink on the Scotland Office homepage. Of course, the Scottish Secretary isn't important within the UK Go...

Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has made a thinly-veiled attack on the Scottish Government and the SNP, over their use of the Saltire and handling of the Homecoming 2009 celebrations.

A lot has been made recently about the Scottish Secrtary Jim Murphy's dominance of the headlines, notably at the expense of Iain Gray, the leader of Labour at Holyrood. The perceived wisdom seems to be that Jim is getting in the way of any sliver of limelight that might happen to fall Iain's way, but I wonder if the Labour men are not getting the credit they deserve. Perhaps Labour media...

The good news for patriotic motorists is that under a Goverment plan they will soon be able to purchase number plates with national flags on. Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy, said the move was “great news for Scottish motorists”. It is welcome news - a brief drive shows that a lot of people seem to have ignored

"The state is back" proclaimed Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy last night as he told legal and economic experts how Scotland and the UK would survive the current global economic crisis and prosper in the future.

Quoth Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy: A cabinet minister has called for progress to be made on ending the 300-year old legal ban on Roman Catholics succeeding to the throne. Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy, himself a Catholic, said he would like to see the 1701 Act of Settlement changed as it was clearly “discriminatory”. Well, quite. But isn’t monarchy

Jack Straw's review of the legal ban on Roman Catholics succeeding to the throne has come under pressure from a Cabinet minister who said the restriction is "wrong" and discriminatory.

Here’s Gordon Brown in a Freudian slip - power fantasy mash-up. To the Prime Minister’s right is Secretary of State for Scotland Jim Murphy who, like the good little New Labour automaton he is, kept a straight face. Harriet Harman’s expression was, however, a peach. Anybody else would have made a joke of it. But Gordon

The lantern-jawed Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy has come a long way from when, as a young child, he used to sleep in the bottom drawer of his grandmother’s bedroom dresser in a Glasgow tenement.