SNP leader John Swinney: ‘Scotland and England are going in completely different directons’
Scotland’s nationalist first minister visits Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday to talk economics, culture and space rockets
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Downing Street backs Rachel Reeves after she apologises for letting home without licence
With crucial budget looming, chancellor faces pressure over ‘inadvertent mistake’
How the SNP is finally getting over its post-Sturgeon hangover
Labour’s implosion and the rise of Reform UK has gifted the party a clear path back to power in next May’s Holyrood elections
First Minister Michelle O’Neill among leaders seeking UK sanctions on Israel
Politicians from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales urge Keir Starmer to recall UK parliament to take action against Israel
Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon: A candid, engaging memoir, although I’m not sure about her take on Irish reunification
Scotland’s former first minister is scathing about Alex Salmond, and praises Michael D Higgins and Martin McGuinness
Nicola Sturgeon on Leo Varadkar’s shyness, Enda Kenny’s charm and Martin McGuinness’s bear hugs
The former Scottish National Party leader talks politics, life, love, pain and her new autobiography
Kate Forbes’s looming exit from Scottish politics clears way for SNP leadership rivals
Scotland’s youthful deputy first minister will stand down next May for family reasons
Scottish Labour holds off surging Reform to win pivotal Holyrood byelection
Scottish Labour’s surprise win comes after national polls placed party in third place behind the SNP and Reform
‘Scunnered’ Scottish voters go to the polls in crucial byelection
SNP favourite to win while Reform UK fancies its chances of beating Labour, which has lost ground it gained in 2024 general election
SNP stages unlikely revival as Scottish Labour support collapses
Labour’s Anas Sarwar once seemed certain to be Scotland’s next first minister but SNP leader John Swinney may yet hang on
Nicola Sturgeon derides Humza Yousaf’s ‘catastrophic’ handling of Scottish government deal
SNP may be back on top of the polls but it can’t escape the internal squabbles of recent years
Shocking crimes, royal illness and Labour’s landslide: The eight big moments that defined 2024 for Britain
Winds of change howled across Britain in a year when a Labour election victory ended 14 years of Tory rule
SNP lays traps for Labour in Scotland’s draft budget
Scottish government pledges to abolish in Scotland the two-child benefit cap that the UK Labour government has so far resisted scrapping
Alex Salmond obituary: Commanding figure who came close to breaking up the United Kingdom
He was a man of ideas, an effective communicator and had built a good relationship with Scottish business
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