suggested the SNP could win 55 seats at the next election, with Labour falling to 19. The Conservatives would drop to 17, while Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would win 14 seats at the first time of ...

while Donna McGill was elected for the SNP in Glasgow North East. Nigel Farage's Reform UK had been hopeful of an upset in the north east seat, but fell short of taking the ward. In the first ...

He defended the UK Government’s bid to change the welfare system, which aims to save £5 billion in 2029-30. While not all of the changes will apply north of the border, SNP ministers have said ...

An SNP grandee has announced he may run as an independent candidate in next year’s Holyrood election as the Nationalists are “no longer the party for all of Scotland”. Fergus Ewing ...

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon is no longer under investigation by Police Scotland amid a probe into the SNP's funding and finances. Meanwhile, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell ...

John Swinney spoke to journalists in his office at Holyrood (Jane Barlow/PA) John Swinney has said the SNP is now in a “clearer position” as it may have been a victim of embezzlement ...

SNP veteran Fergus Ewing has announced he will not stand for the party at next year's Holyrood election - but may run as an independent. Ewing has represented Inverness and Nairn since 1999, and ...

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared in a police investigation into the SNP’s finances, saying there was not a “scrap of evidence” of wrongdoing on her behalf.

Murrell, who is separated from his wife Nicola Sturgeon, was rearrested in April last year in connection with Operation Branchform. For more than two decades he was one of the most powerful ...

The SNP MSP for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse had taken leave from her role as alcohol and drugs minister last year to seek treatment for secondary breast cancer. She died earlier this morning ...