Jim Sillars and Gordon Wilson make sound sense with their proposal that Scotland, in the event of regaining independence, could join the European Free Trade Association alongside the likes of ...

INDEPENDENCE would give Scotland a second chance to harness its oil wealth for the “benefit of the nation”, a Scottish Government report has claimed.

Two veteran left-wing SNP politicians have ruled out any chance of a second independence referendum this year. Mr MacAskill, who left the Scottish cabinet when Nicola Sturgeon became First ...

Professor of politics at Strathclyde University, John Curtice, looks ahead to the second TV debate between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling.

Today (October 19) marks the day when the proposed second Scottish referendum for independence was supposed to take place last year. However, the Supreme Court ruled that Scotland couldn't hold ...

That means that, as laid out in the SNP's manifesto, the only realistic chance for a second referendum would be if the SNP won a majority in the next general election, scheduled for 2024. Read More ...

The Scottish National Party could quietly park independence A second plausible scenario is that the issue of independence could be put to bed by the SNP, at least temporarily.

Sturgeon took power in the wake of that defeat and tried to forge a path to a second vote. Brexit looked like it might give her a chance: The U.K. as a whole backed leaving the European Union in a ...

Salmond: Scotland will be independent within the next decade The former first minister said every nation ‘deserves a second chance’ as he called for the issue of independence to be pushed ...

Nicola Sturgeon, the figurehead of the Scottish independence movement, dramatically announced on Wednesday that she would resign after eight years as Scotland’s first minister.

Professor of politics at Strathclyde University, John Curtice, looks ahead to the second TV debate between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling.

Nicola Sturgeon, the figurehead of the Scottish independence movement, dramatically announced on Wednesday that she would resign after eight years as Scotland’s first minister.