Scottish First Minister John Swinney will on Monday position independence as an escape route for Scotland from “decades of ...

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

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

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 ...

The SNP hopes the goal of independence can unite and motivate its activists to campaign, can motivate its membership to ...

Scottish independence is “not a punt”, Housing Secretary Mairi McAllan has said on the final day of the SNP conference. Ms ...

A British minister said she was surprised by plans for another Scottish independence referendum given the budget deficit in the country and the economic challenges facing the whole of the United ...

Mr Swinney has said “precedent is on my side” if his party matches the 2011 Holyrood majority that led to the 2014 vote. He ...

The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different ...

Revulsion with Westminster’s “race to the right” will push Scots towards independence, John Swinney will tell SNP members as he closes the party’s conference on Monday.

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

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