It's been a markedly turbulent year on Scotland's frequently bonkers political scene, and for none more than John Swinney. As ...

I feared an SNP wipe-out in general election, says Swinney - The party was reduced from 48 seats at Westminster to just nine ...

With Nicola Sturgeon expected to step down in 2026, Prof Curtice discusses whether her SNP role could be heading up campaign for independence.

For most of the last 17 years of the SNP in power, John Swinney has acted as the SNP’s apologist in chief, countering critical media and parliamentary inquiries by speaking at great length whilst ...

Scotland's First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney sits down with Podlitical.

Scottish Tory leader Findlay challenges Swinney on how the victims of crime are treated by the justice system Findlay says Beattie fears going to his grave as a murderer and he calls on Swinney to ...

SCOTLAND’S housing emergency has left a record 10,000 children “without a home to call their own” amid plummeting ...

JOHN Swinney said he has not been asked to speak to cops probing the SNP’s finances – after we revealed Alex Salmond was brought in by detectives to help with the investigation. We told how ...

Holyrood election will be about hope, John Swinney has said, as he pledged that the SNP will be ready to fight it.

First Minister John Swinney has spoken to US President-elect Donald Trump for the first time since he secured his return to ...

Scotland’s First Minister has said he feared his party could have been “wiped out” at the general election in July.

By the time Scots go to the polls in 17 months, the SNP will have been in charge of the country for 19 years, with John Swinney in the upper echelons of government for all but one of those years.