and there are more cuts coming because of the choices she has made and she refuses to tax the rich.”

Prof James Mitchell, co-director of the Academy of Government at the University of Edinburgh, believes the SNP has correctly decided the Scottish electorate is less radical than it likes to think – as is the SNP’s hugely enlarged membership, which has increased fivefold since the 2014 referendum.

He and Rob Johns, an elections expert at the University of Essex, are writing a new book on the party called Takeover: Explaining the Extraordinary Rise of the SNP. They have just completed a mass survey of 20,000 SNP members with the party’s help, and found that the post-referendum surge has not pulled the party very much to the left after all.

In addition,Telecom and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said in Parliament on Wednesday that SFIO, which is under the corporate affairs ministry, has advised the Registrar of Companies (RoC) to seek information from Ringing Bells and its directors under Section 2016 (1) of the Companies Act and send a report through the Directorate of Enforcement. Under Section 206, the RoC can inspect books of a company.

The letter had gone out on February 26 after the corporate affairs ministry took suo moto action on news coverage and asked SFIO, through a February 11 letter, “to keep a watch on the activities of the company which appear to be suspicious”, Prasad said.

In Turn, the SFIO sent its research report along with a proposal to call for information from the RoC. For