John Swinney has been ‘humiliated’ after his MSPs voted against a motion to remove Maggie Chapman from a key committee role following her ‘appalling’ attack on the Supreme Court.

John Swinney has suggested businesses and organisations in Scotland should not implement controversial interim guidance by the UK equalities watchdog and instead "wait for definitive full guidance ...

Anas Sarwar has insisted that John Swinney should immediately instruct Scottish public bodies to ban transgender people from using toilets of their acquired gender. The Scottish Labour leader was ...

John Swinney and Nicola Sturgeon are facing demands from within their own party to apologise for the gender self-ID fiasco. Nationalist MSP Michelle Thomson said the serving and former First ...

First Minister John Swinney has backed calls for rap group Kneecap to be axed from Scotland's TRNSMT music festival. Organisers have been urged to drop the Belfast trio over footage from a 2023 ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. First Minister John Swinney believes Kneecap playing at TRNSMT this summer would be "unacceptable". The Irish rap collective are known for ...

They have made a number of calls ahead of the 2025 Programme for Government announcement – which will be the last time First Minister John Swinney will set out his Government’s policy priorities ...