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Among other challenges to be confronted by whoever is in charge, repeated warnings from financial watchdogs that levels of social spending in Scotland are unsustainable.

The watchdog has collected ideas on how to ease the regulatory burden on lenders while maintaining financial stability, Routledge said, and proposed changes would be released later in the fall.

On Friday, anti-graft watchdog Transparency International called on the European Parliament, "as the EU's only directly elected body", to set up its own inquiry into the matter.

Britain's competition watchdog on Friday paved the way for tougher regulation to tackle Google's dominance in online search, under new targeted measures focused on technology giants.

Universities could face sanctions if pro-Palestinian protests descend into harassment and discrimination against Jewish students on campus, the free speech director at the watchdog for higher education in England has said.