Scotland’s world-class National Health Service stands ready to play our full part in supporting these medical evacuations and the treatment of injured Palestinian children.

SNP-run Scotland is the only part of the UK where child poverty is expected to fall, and soon we will take another step forward by abolishing Labour’s two-child cap. We are introducing more measures ...

Read in full remarks by First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney at “For a Future Made in Scotland”, the event marking ten years since the Independence Referendum.

This year, Parliament marks the 25th anniversary of its opening, and I have witnessed every previous Programme for Government being announced – albeit from different seats across the Parliamentary ...

Conference, It is an immense privilege for me to address you today – for the first time – as Scotland’s First Minister. I want to begin by paying tribute to my predecessor, Humza Yousaf. Humza is a ...

Read the speech from SNP Leader and First Minister John Swinney, introducing the SNP’s 2024 general election manifesto.

Read John Swinney’s speech to the Scottish Parliament, outlining his priorities for the modern, diverse country we will build together.

John Swinney, the new leader of the SNP, is due to take office as Scotland’s seventh First Minister. He is the longest serving Deputy First Minister in the history of UK devolution, and has served in ...

Read John Swinney’s address to the Scottish Parliament upon accepting its nomination to be First Minister.

Scotland faces another decade of devastating austerity cuts under damaging Tory and Labour Party fiscal rules – as the UK Chancellor indicates further cuts to vital public services and capital ...

With Labour’s reckless tax plans, Sir Keir Starmer is threatening to let Scotland’s North East go the way coal and mining towns went under Margaret Thatcher. We need to invest in our communities and… ...