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 ...

Crucially, that means rejoining as a full independent member state in our own right for the very first time. For Ireland, it was the golden combination of independence and membership of the EU that ...

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 ...

On Monday, John Swinney acknowledged that the NHS was not working for patients, telling an audience that he “saw patients who waited too long to be seen” and noting the “delays in discharge ...

John Swinney says the opening of the first hydrogen-powered homes at a demonstration facility in Fife is an “exciting project” which can help tackle climate change. However, the First Minister said ...

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 ...

The government has been here before. Ten years ago it announced plans to build a series of specialist hospitals called National Treatment Centres that would focus on non-urgent care. Despite ...

John Swinney is quizzed on his plans for the NHS by opposition party leaders Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay wants to know when a long promised NHS app and new treatment centres will ...

But someone at The Herald needs to have a word with Kevin McKenna. His weekly hatchet job on John Swinney (“Sorry Mr Swinney, you are not ‘Full on John’ more ‘John of the Dead’ leading a ...

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 ...

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 ...