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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Police Scotland first received a complaint about the SNP’s finances in March 2021, when a former supporter alleged funds raised for another referendum had been misspent. The party had raised ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salmond, as then leader of the Scottish National Party, led the independence campaign in the referendum in 2014, but lost, gaining 45% of the vote. Salmond resigned from the SNP in 2018 in the ...