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

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 ...

The SNP have been dealt a fresh blow after a new poll revealed they have been overtaken by Labour for the first time since the 2014 independence referendum. In the latest YouGov survey ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...