We rejected independence but the SNP won’t let us move forward By Douglas Ross Ten years on from the referendum on Scottish independence and my overriding emotion remains relief at the outcome. ...

Nicola Sturgeon has reportedly submitted an application to be a candidate for the SNP at the next Holyrood election. However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the SNP is not quite out of the woods yet as its imploding relationship ... This is because it missed the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do so after the 2014 referendum. After its very own ...

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

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 ...

Salmond, as then leader of the Scottish National Party, led the independence campaign in the referendum in 2014.

He was widely judged to have led a successful SNP Government before winning a landslide Holyrood election in 2011 and securing an independence referendum. Independence was rejected and he quit as ...

Alex Salmond was the undisputed figurehead of the independence movement for decades. He was the instantly recognisable, colourful, controversial, and complicated face of a movement that Salmond ...