Nicola Sturgeon had to declare she remains under police investigation as part of her application to stand as an SNP candidate ...

Should the SNP’s Stephen Flynn be allowed to ‘double dip’ as both an MP and MSP?SNP MP Stephen Flynn has announced his ...

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 ...

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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 ...

With the SNP split on calls for a new independence referendum it would likely lose and having suffered major electoral losses, and with Salmond’s unsuccessful Alba Party now bereft of its leader ...

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

The current SNP first minister ... Under that new settlement, which was ratified by a referendum, the Scottish Parliament has had a wide array of domestic powers, including over policies on ...

The 2003 Scottish elections were a setback for the SNP. Despite demanding that the election should be turned into a referendum on the Iraq war, the calls were lost amidst the emergence of anti-war ...