He was a man of ideas, an effective communicator and had built a good relationship with Scottish business

Scottish nationalist politician died suddenly on Saturday, as his friends insist his independence dream will live on

Ex-SNP leader (69) collapsed after delivering speech in North Macedonia on Saturday - reports

Worldview: If the SNP recovers its strength, the union will weaken - with consequences for the island of Ireland

Union supporters and those in favour of independence are almost ‘eeksie peeksie’ in polls but the Scottish National Party appears to have put its breakaway dream on ice for now

John Swinney gives first conference address to the party since taking over as leader in summer

Scottish Nationalist Party members meet for the first time after it was trounced by Labour in July’s UK election

Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery

New leader names Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer

Comments by ally of Rishi Sunak come as Sun newspaper tells readers to back Keir Starmer on Thursday

British prime minister’s Conservative Party widely expected to lose to opposition Keir Starmer’s Labour after 14 years in power

Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctly

Forbes had challenged Humza Yousaf for the SNP leadership last year but opted not to stand against Swinney

John Swinney’s erstwhile SNP leadership rival Kate Forbes is expected to be brought back into the cabinet

Mr Swinney will now face a vote at Holyrood, where it is likely he will become the Scottish parliament’s nominated candidate to be the country’s seventh first minister

John Swinney looks set to be crowned leader of the SNP and of Scotland, as Kate Forbes bides her time

SNP veteran Swinney promises to bring his erstwhile young rival back into the heart of Scotland’s government

Scotland’s outgoing first minister, who announced on Monday he would quit, lacked political guile, his rivals say

SNP leader’s decision comes ahead of two no-confidence votes after he ended power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens

Angry Scottish Greens threatening to back no-confidence motion in the SNP leader after he ended governing partnership with Green Party