Between 2002 and 2024, the number of people on disability benefits increased from 3.9 million to 6.9 million but the rising ...

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JOHN Swinney has addressed SNP members following the news she had been cleared in a police investigation into the party's finances. On Thursday, a Police Scotland spokesperson said that their probe ...

John Swinney has promised SNP members at a private meeting the party will never again be embroiled in a financial scandal on his watch. In a recording leaked to the Sunday Mail the First Minister ...

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It was full steam ahead for HMS Russell Findlay as the Scots Tory leader navigated the choppy waters of ferry procurement. Findlay sounded his foghorn over contracts going to Poland, which he said ...

Ms McKelvie stepped back from her duties as drugs and alcohol minister last summer after announcing she had secondary breast cancer. Credit: The Scottish Parliament First Minister John Swinney has ...

The SNP is “back in business”, First Minister John Swinney has insisted – as he added he is “very optimistic” for next year’s Holyrood elections. While the party had seen its support drop during a ...

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 ...

First Minister John Swinney spoke on a podcast (Jane Barlow/PA) Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has said he “feared for the survival of the SNP” in the final days of Humza Yousaf’s ...

JOHN Swinney has insisted it is “important” to keep university education free for Scottish students – after a poll suggested almost half of adults support the idea of introducing charges based on the ...