Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland

Our Five Pledges for Ukraine

Working with our friends, the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland (USCS) has challenged candidates standing in the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections to support these Five Pledges for Ukraine, included in full below.

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The Five Pledges

I pledge to publicly champion the following policies, including both those within the Scottish Parliament’s powers, and those reserved to the Westminster Parliament.

I support:

1. Helping the Ukrainian people defeat the illegal Russian invasion of their country.

  • The withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine.
  • A just peace in Ukraine.
  • Ukraine and Ukrainians must decide on the terms of any ceasefire or peace deal, not for other countries to impose them without their consent. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.

2. Preventing Russia from financing its invasion of Ukraine through trade.

  • Effective UK sanctions on trade with Russia, especially on its crucial fossil fuel exports on which it depends to finance its war on Ukraine.
  • Seizure of unlawful Russian “shadow fleet” oil tankers which endanger maritime and human life.
  • Immediate enforcement of the UK government ban on UK-based companies shipping liquefied natural gas, and a ban on providing insurance to companies shipping Russian oil and LNG.
  • A ban on Scottish Government or other agencies’ contracts with, or financial aid to, companies which trade with Russia directly or indirectly via third countries, especially in Russian missile and drone components, and in the provision of financial services.

3. Building practical solidarity links between the Scottish and Ukrainian people.

  • An extension and deepening of Scottish councils’ twinning arrangements with Ukrainian cities and towns, which already include Edinburgh with Kyiv, Glasgow with Mykolaiv, and Perth with Nikopol. Working with Scottish trade unions, social and environmental associations to provide material and political assistance to their counterpart Ukrainian civil society organisations. These links must be used to facilitate fundraising for the Ukrainian people’s urgent social, infrastructural, energy, medical, and reconstruction requirements.

4. Helping refugees build new lives here if they want to do so. Refugees are welcome here.

  • No increase in the qualifying periods for leave to remain, or the right to apply for UK citizenship.
  • All time spent in the UK to count towards qualification for permanent leave to remain or citizenship.
  • Accepting Ukrainian asylum claims on the basis that nowhere in Ukraine is safe from Russian bombardment.
  • No withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights which underpin refugee and asylum seekers’ rights.

5. Providing Scottish Government necessary material support for refugees.

  • Maintaining housing support beyond the point at which UK provision ends.
  • Monitoring labour conditions in sectors employing displaced people; strengthen inspection capacity.
  • Ensuring anti-trafficking services are accessible without immigration enforcement consequences.
  • Collecting disaggregated data on refugees by ethnicity, disability, and other characteristics.
  • Advocating clearly at Westminster for a credible long-term status for refugees who have built their lives in Scotland.

Candidates backing our pledges

Last updated: 29th April 2026

Are you a candidate? Email uscscotland@gmail.com to add your support.

If candidates in your constituency and electoral region are not included below, we encourage supporters to contact them and ask why.

You can easily find your local candidates and their contact details using the Who Can I Vote For? website.

Scottish National Party
  1. John Swinney (leader) — Perthshire North, & Mid Scotland and Fife region
  2. Jack Middleton — Aberdeen Central
  3. Lloyd Melville — Angus South
  4. Callum Cox — Central Scotland and Lothians West
  5. Stacey Devine — Central Scotland and Lothians West region
  6. Kenneth Gibson — Cunninghame North, & West Scotland region
  7. Patricia Gibson — Cunninghame South, & West Scotland region
  8. Shirley-Anne Somerville — Dunfermline
  9. Stephen Gethins — Dundee City East
  10. Heather Anderson — Dundee City West
  11. Kirsten Oswold — Eastwood, & West Scotland region
  12. Lyn Jardine — Edinburgh North Western, & Edinburgh and Lothians East region
  13. Ben MacPherson — Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith
  14. Gary Bouse — Falkirk West
  15. Alison Thewliss — Glasgow Central, & Glasgow region
  16. Graham Campbell — Glasgow region
  17. Emma Harper — Galloway and West Dumfries, & South Scotland region
  18. Laura Mitchell — Moray
  19. Alasdair Allan — Na h-Eileanan an Iar
  20. Robert Leslie — Orkney Islands, & Highlands and Islands region
  21. Michelle Campbell — Renfrewshire North and Cardonald, & West Scotland region
  22. Eilidh Munro — Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
  23. Ross Clark — South Scotland region
  24. Denis Johnston — Strathkelvin and Bearsden
  25. Michael Gibbons — West Scotland region
Scottish Green Party
  1. Ross Greer (co-leader) — West Scotland region
  2. Kate Nevens — Edinburgh North Eastern and Leith, & Edinburgh and Lothians East region
  3. Alex Staniforth — Edinburgh and Lothians East region
  4. Ariane Burgess — Highlands and Islands region
  5. Mags Hall — Mid Scotland and Fife region
  6. Fahd Asif — North East Scotland region
  7. Maggie Chapman — North East Scotland region
  8. Cameron Garrett — South Scotland region
  9. Barbra Harvie — South Scotland region
  10. Laura Moodie — South Scotland region
  11. Cara McKee — West Scotland region
Scottish Liberal Democrats
  1. Ian McDonald — Dumfriesshire
  2. Tim McKay — East Lothian Coast and Lammermuirs
  3. Duncan Dunlop — Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale
  4. Ben Munnoch — Uddingston and Bellshill