Labour’s Anas Sarwar once seemed certain to be Scotland’s next first minister but SNP leader John Swinney may yet hang on ...

It’s just over nine months since the SNP-Green power-sharing deal collapsed. Exactly nine months since he became First Minister heading a minority government in a hostile parliament. Seven months ...

John Swinney as First Minister has shown a ... We could perhaps see the shape of things in the Commons yesterday, when SNP MP Dave Doogan focused on winter fuel payments, national insurance ...

She said: “John Swinney was straight with the public ... and faster in our plan to kickstart economic growth.” SNP MP Dave Doogan said it was “beyond parody” that Ms Reeves would ...

READ MORE: Raucous FMQs erupts as John Swinney accuses Jackie Baillie of lying about NHS She said: “That’s not the case: we are not going to be changing those double-taxation conventions.” Dave Doogan ...

John Swinney was yesterday forced to apologise after a report laid bare the ‘shameful’ daily conditions faced by patients and medical staff in Scotland’s hospitals. During a bruising ...

JOHN Swinney has been mocked for calling himself “Full-on John” in a bid to big himself up as First Minister. Rivals savaged the veteran SNP chief over the “rebrand” after in an interview ...

Just as we must hold the SNP’s feet to the fire over the state of the NHS, we should welcome signs that ministers are at least trying to do the right thing John Swinney’s new focus on the NHS ...

John Swinney has said serving as Nicola Sturgeon’s Education Secretary changed his politics by focusing on child poverty. The First Minister said witnessing the “corrosive” effect of ...