Instead, the SNP's first budget since throwing the Greens out of government is to be approved with the support of at least ...

Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a ...

It is 60 years since Harold Wilson decreed that a week is a long time in politics. The pipe-smoking Labour prime minister ...

John Swinney rejected a call from his civil servants to admit misleading MSPs over the amount of Scotland’s electricity that ...

On July 5 last year, when Labour cruised into Downing Street having handsomely won both England and Scotland, I thought independence was ...

Swinney accused Sarwar of trying to “scare off” investment in renewable energy and categorically denied the green light for new nuclear power facilities would be given. Scottish Greens’ co-leader ...

It’s just over nine months since the SNP-Green power-sharing deal collapsed. Exactly nine months since he became First Minister heading a minority government in a hostile parliament. Seven months ...

A FORMER Conservative spin doctor has said he believes that John Swinney and Kate Forbes “could actually pull off indy”.

A survey by YouGov found that even among those who voted Labour at the general election, a majority had an unfavourable ...

The first minister has called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to “give certainty” to workers at the Grangemouth oil ...