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 ...

Vote for the nationalists at next May’s Scottish elections and – only if they win an overall majority, mind you – Swinney ...

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

ALEX Salmond’s niece has criticised the tribute to the former first minister at the SNP conference as falling “far short of what he deserved”.

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 ...

JOHN Swinney has claimed he will not quit even if he fails to secure his target of an SNP majority in next year's election - ...

It’s a year since the death of Alex Salmond, the most important Scottish politician of his generation. Although Salmond’s ...

The SNP won more than half of the seats at Holyrood in 2011, an electoral triumph that paved the way for a poll on the ...

JOHN Swinney’s new independence blueprint has been branded a “donkey” by furious rebel Nats as he faced a stinging SNP ...

John Swinney said the SNP is going to “win big” at the next Holyrood election and deliver a second referendum.