JOHN Swinney has a “secret plan” that will be deployed if the UK Government refuses to negotiate a second independence referendum.

Their annual conference in Aberdeen hammered home a fresh strategy of making the election all about the SNP’s ultimate push ...

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 ...

Mr Swinney told the SNP conference that “becoming First Minister is such a privilege”, adding that it is “the ultimate ...

Party leaders have been delivering speeches at conferences across the UK in recent weeks - today it's the turn of Scottish ...

PLAID Cymru’s deputy leader has said she wants to emulate the “healthy debate” of the 2014 Scottish independence campaign in Wales as ...

IF the normal rules of politics applied in Scotland, the SNP would be sure-fire losers at next year’s Holyrood election. Public services are on their knees. Polling shows a majority of Scots take ...

The dream shall never die. But Alex Salmond did, suddenly, one year ago today. I was in a hotel room in Seattle when a text ...

Plaid Cymru has promised to publish a plan for Welsh independence - but not within the first term of a Plaid-led government.

SNP leader John Swinney’s strategy for securing another independence referendum has been backed by his party’s members after ...

John Swinney has won a fierce internal battle over the SNP's independence strategy - and dismissed criticism of "begging for ...