Scottish officials are reportedly discussing whether the country could maintain the pensions triple lock in an independent ...

This year is the tenth anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, which whilst the motion for independence was defeated, set in train a groundswell in ...

The result "established the SNP as a formidable political force" and confirmed "that a referendum on Scottish independence was inevitable". Although the independence movement would go on to lose ...

SOMETIMES it’s difficult to work out if politicians are more bothered about the national interest or social media adulation.

Alex Salmond could have been a "wise head" for the SNP and should have been persuaded not to resign suddenly in the wake of the independence referendum, according to former Scottish Labour leader ...

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. We've got what it takes - to ...

Only ten years after he had returned as leader, he led the SNP to a referendum outcome where 45% of voters said yes to independence, a much larger figure than many thought possible. However ...

Salmond, as then leader of the Scottish National Party, led the independence campaign in the referendum in 2014.

He was widely judged to have led a successful SNP Government before winning a landslide Holyrood election in 2011 and securing an independence referendum. Independence was rejected and he quit as ...

It meant the SNP’s manifesto pledge to hold an independence referendum could be delivered. Mr Salmond signed the Edinburgh Agreement with David Cameron on October 15 2012, setting out the terms ...

Within the SNP he co-founded the socialist, republican 79 Group after the party’s rout in 1979 following Labour’s abortive devolution referendum. He was elected to the SNP’s executive in ...

Salmond, as then leader of the Scottish National Party, led the independence campaign in the referendum in 2014, but lost, gaining 45% of the vote. Salmond resigned from the SNP in 2018 in the ...