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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of Belfast man John George ... later after he failed to board his flight home to Northern Ireland. His parents Billy and Sharon, brother Darren ...

First Minister John Swinney claimed the Tories are trying to mimic Reform in a bid to avoid losing voters to Nigel Farage’s party (Jane Barlow/PA) Scotland’s First Minister has said there is ...