The SNP don’t have a theory of the new world order which is storming into view. Their understanding of the role of the US, for example, is calcified in the norms of a wholly different era.

John Swinney and Culture Secretary Angus Robertson are due to visit the set of Summerwater, which is being filmed in Scotland and benefited from Scottish Government funding. Summerwater ...

John Swinney has been accused of having "no plan ... “The First Minister is setting out a vision of a country free from child poverty with higher living standards and with the powers of ...

John Swinney has been accused of having "no plan" to achieve Scottish ... “The First Minister is setting out a vision of a country free from child poverty with higher living standards and with the ...

Yesterday marked a triple whammy of failure for John Swinney and the SNP. Record numbers of children are stuck in temporary accommodation, the number of Scots dying from alcohol abuse is at a 15 ...

JOHN Swinney asked “What is a Brazilian Butt Lift?” — while being updated on Nats’ blitz of cowboy cosmetic clinics. Sources told how the First Minister was bamboozled when “the dangers ...

John Swinney has accused ... t have anything to do with it.” Swinney said the first twenty five years of devolution had been inclusive but he had been troubled by an “odious” Tory position recently ...

SNP leader John Swinney has said he is “comfortable” with the party’s vetting procedures after reports that Nicola Sturgeon and a former treasurer have been approved despite a police ...

John Swinney has blamed Liz Truss for the estimated costs of building a replacement Barlinnie prison rising to almost £1 billion. The First Minister pointed to the short-lived Tory leader as the ...

This, however, was the real, actual line delivered by ‘Honest John’ Swinney on being asked if the cost of the new prison to replace Barlinnie in Glasgow – once estimated at £400 million ...