In July 2024, people took Keir Starmer’s Labour party at its word and voted for his promise of “Change”. It was the one single word on the front of their manifesto. However, it didn’t take long for ...

Read in full remarks by First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney at “For a Future Made in Scotland”, the event marking ten years since the Independence Referendum. We've got what it takes - to ...

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SNP ministers are “considering” reinstating winter fuel payments for all Scottish pensioners following a Budget windfall. Ivan McKee, the SNP finance minister, confirmed the devolved ...

THE SNP are “considering” whether to reverse a Westminster cut to pensioners’ winter support payments, a minister has claimed. Public Finance Minister Ivan McKee has hinted that the Scottish ...

SNP leaders are already pretty much unloved by the party’s base. The hardline and fundamentalist wing seethes about how silent the Scottish Government has become on independence. So any hint of ...

SNP ministers have been forced to stage a “humiliating U-turn” and abandon plans for juryless rape trials in Scotland following warnings that they risked wrongful convictions. Angela Constance ...

John Swinney has admitted piloting juryless rape trials is not “the best way of proceeding” with justice reforms after the SNP government was forced into a “humiliating u-turn”.

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