The leader of the Scottish National Party sees a chance to revive the country’s debate over breaking up with Britain and ...

John Swinney tells Scottish National party conference that independence will be escape route from ‘broken’ Britain ...

If political parties want to win the forthcoming election they must come up with new and distinctive policies.

SNP leader John Swinney is at the podium, and is now delivering a speech at the party conference in Aberdeen. You can follow ...

John Swinney also set his party the immediate task of "wining a majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament" in next May's ...

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday pledged to publish draft legislation for a new Scottish independence referendum, including the question and timing of the vote, before the ...

First Minister John Swinney said it was up to the SNP ‘to offer a brighter future’ for an independent Scotland in his keynote speech, one year off the Holyrood election - Jane Barlow/PA Wire Sir Keir ...

Scottish households would be more than £10,000 better off per year if the country was independent, a Government paper has suggested.

Scotland’s ‘immense resources’ only available with independence, says Swinney - The publication of a new paper comes just days before the SNP conference in Aberdeen.

EXCLUSIVE: The co-leader of the Scottish Greens said it was "disrespectful to voters to say that certain pro-independence ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The Scots do not think there should be a second independence referendum, a poll showed on Sunday, days after Britain voted to leave the European Union despite strong Scottish ...