The First Minister said he feared Sarwar could "give in" to Farage because the Scottish Labour leader wants to be FM.

In the wake of the figures, Labour urged John Swinney to “step up and set out a real plan to deal with this scandal” – ...

Swinney insists he wants to make sure there is a replacement prison that is safe and secure. We now know the replacement for ...

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 of BBLs” ...

First Minister John Swinney has ruled out the legal reintroduction of lynx into the wild in Scotland. His comments follow ...

A rattled John Swinney yesterday tried to defend spending £1billion on a ‘five-star prison’ as he was accused of building a ‘luxury resort’ for rapists and murderers. Amid angry scenes at ...

Scotland’s first minister has been forced to knock down reports that the government is considering banning cats. John Swinney ...

John Swinney admitted at a summit of health chiefs that he had an “electoral problem” with the state of Scotland’s NHS, it ...

Turning around a government that has lost its way is one of the trickiest feats in politics, all the more so if that ...

ohn Swinney is a Scottish politician and member of the Scottish National Party (SNP). Born on April 13, 1964, he has served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Perthshire North since ...

An initial estimate put the cost of a new prison in Glasgow at just £100m - but the super jail will now cost at least 10x ...