We have two decidedly different debates north and south of the Border, founded upon the same topic.  The issue?  Social security benefits ...

Scotland's First Minister John Swinney attends Covid-19 Day of Reflection in Glasgow. Ministers and bereaved families attended the memorial on Glasgow Green to mark five years since the pandemic ...

The paper quotes a Whitehall insider saying there are plans to make ... SWINNEY SPEAKS: Scottish First Minister John Swinney is hosting his first Bute House press conference since taking the role at ...

The Times quotes a Ukrainian MP arguing that this amounts to Ukraine ... Sign up here** GOING GREEN: Scottish First Minister John Swinney visits the Celtic Renewables plant in Grangemouth, where he’ll ...

Your correspondent (Letters 20 February “Scotland can't afford …”) quotes from a recent IFS ... plant is for the MP to persuade John Swinney to give immediate planning permission for ...

The First Minister has issued a warning about cuts at Westminster impacting on health and public services funding in Scotland ...

John Swinney has denied the SNP has an issue with women despite almost two thirds of the party’s MSPs who are quitting Holyrood next year being female. So far, 29 sitting MSPs have announced ...

John Swinney’s support for an alcohol ban at ­Scottish football is basic snobbery ­discriminating against working class people according to a trade union. The GMB is campaigning for drinking ...

John Swinney said he "accepts and understands that people are angry" but is worried that in response to the discord some are finding "attractiveness in the politics of Farage and the far right".

John Swinney’s support for an alcohol ban at ­Scottish football is basic snobbery ­discriminating against working class people according to a trade union. The GMB is campaigning for drinking to be ...