I recall Nicola Sturgeon saying that a referendum should be held when polls showed a desire for a referendum being maintained at 60 per cent over ...

Grown-up politics would be seeing the UK and Irish governments, as well as the Northern Ireland Assembly and Scottish Government locked in ...

John Swinney is among the SNP MSPs warning Lloyds Banking Group the closure of 14 Bank of Scotland branches will fail communities.

Tractor rallies postponed due to last weekend's storm finally went ahead with many making their presence known in Edinburgh. The rallies were rescheduled for last Saturday and Sunday by NFU Scotland ...

Swinney hails ‘tremendous opportunities’ after Spanish takeover of yards - Spanish firm Navantia confirmed at the end of ...

First Minister’s claim about rise of green sources of power ‘reeks of SNP secrecy and cover-up’, say Tories John Swinney claimed that Scotland’s electricity consumption that came from ...

John Swinney has warned local authorities raising council tax by 10 per cent is "too high". The First Minister said councils had been privately "welcoming" their budget funding from the Scottish ...

But in an interview with the Scotsman podcast The Steamie, John Swinney expressed his worries over a rise in “populism” ahead of the vote, saying he would not work with Reform in the way he ...

Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a conciliatory, decent man whose defining, lasting legacy with his party and his ...

John Swinney has been urged to support the expansion of Heathrow Airport by one of his own MSPs. Fergus Ewing said bringing a third runway to the London airport "is the future gateway for Scottish ...

Is the SNP renewing itself again? John Swinney has reversed Nicola Sturgeon’s errors and is making the political weather. By Chris Deerin “We will cut our waiting lists.” With this declaration, John ...