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First Minister John Swinney says it's in 'Scotland's interest' he meets with Donald Trump
The US president's private visit to Scotland later this month will come ahead of his state visit to the UK in September.
GRAHAM GRANT: Swinney wants to steer Scotland to bright new horizons, but with his hand on the tiller we are heading for the abyss
Musing on Scotland's future at a recent conference, John Swinney waxed lyrical about 'taking charge of our own destiny, with ...
Swinney accuses Reeves of ‘channelling Thatcher’ with financial reforms
The Scottish First Minister criticised plans set out by the Chancellor in her Mansion House speech on Tuesday night.
The worst Scottish town centres for empty shops as SNP criticised for ‘decades of decline’ on high streets
In 2023-24, the town centre rate in Scotland hit 12.3 per cent after rising for the second consecutive year. The worst hit area was South Ayrshire, with a staggering 35.3 per cent of town centre shops ...
Brian Leishman: Scottish MP among four suspended by Starmer over 'persistent breaches of party discipline'
SNP Westminster deputy leader Pete Wishart MP said: “It says it all that the only Labour MP who has dared stand up for ...
EUAN McCOLM: Ignore the urge to stick two fingers up to Trump, deploy some 'necessary hypocrisy' and welcome him to Scotland, Mr Swinney - it's your duty
John Swinney was perfectly clear. So far as the First Minister was concerned, the UK should not be rolling out the red carpet ...
Labour, SNP and Reform by-election campaign spend revealed
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SNP 'dithering' on Scotland's housing emergency as crisis becomes 'intolerable'
EXCLUSIVE: Labour warned the Nationalists' response to the housing crisis will be remembered as "one of this Government’s ...
Heart disease treatment risks being 'diluted' by SNP plans
SNP ministers have been warned by medics that new proposals risk 'diluting' the resources needed to treat heart disease. The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on a long-term conditions ...
Most Europeans would support independent Scotland joining EU, poll finds
Support for Scotland to join the EU ranged from just under two-thirds (63 per cent) to three-quarters (75 per cent).
Less than third of electric buses funded by SNP scheme built in Scotland as 400 workers lose jobs
Only 162 of the 523 - 31 per cent - buses ordered under the Scottish Zero Emission Bus challenge fund were made in the ...
Trump tells Starmer: Get rid of ‘windmills’ and focus on North Sea oil
Donald Trump has urged Sir Keir Starmer to “get rid of the windmills” in Scotland and focus on extracting more North Sea oil ...