Scottish officials are reportedly discussing whether the country could maintain the pensions triple lock in an independent ...

This year is the tenth anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, which whilst the motion for independence was defeated, set in train a groundswell in ...

SNP leaders are already pretty much unloved by the party’s base. The hardline and fundamentalist wing seethes about how silent the ...

SOMETIMES it’s difficult to work out if politicians are more bothered about the national interest or social media adulation.

Alex Salmond could have been a "wise head" for the SNP and should have been persuaded not to resign suddenly in the wake of the independence referendum, according to former Scottish Labour leader ...

was resigning as First Minister after his party’s defeat in the independence referendum in 2014. It was no doubt a sore loss ...

If a line had been drawn under Alex Salmond’s career in 1997, it would not have been considered a great success. After 18 years of the Tories and seven of his leadership, the SNP won six rural ...

Salmond, who died suddenly earlier this month, will be buried on Tuesday following a private service at Strichen Parish ...

Over the weekend, there was a flurry of excitement on X, eventually taken up in certain newspapers, about a Parliamentary ...

Only ten years after he had returned as leader, he led the SNP to a referendum outcome where 45% of voters said yes to independence, a much larger figure than many thought possible. However ...

Within the SNP he co-founded the socialist, republican 79 Group after the party’s rout in 1979 following Labour’s abortive devolution referendum. He was elected to the SNP’s executive in ...

Former first minister Alex Salmond has been remembered as not just the political leader who took Scotland “so close to his ...