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    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Scotland
      Scotland registers slowest population growth rate in UK

      Latest census data highlights country’s demographic challenges, with 23% rise in over-65s

      People walking on Edinburgh’s main thoroughfare, Princes Street
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Scotland’s first minister to boost welfare spending by £1bn

      Increase in social security budget to £6.3bn comes as SNP’s Yousaf seeks to outflank a resurgent Labour party

      Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Scottish National Party
      SNP appoints former comms chief as chief executive

      Murray Foote rejoins party after stepping down over membership figures row

      Murray Foote
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      News in-depthLabour Party UK
      Labour MPs fear being outflanked from the left by SNP in by-election

      Keir Starmer’s socially conservative stance threatens to alienate voters in Scotland ahead of general election

      Kier Starmer in front of Labour banner
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Recreational drugs
      Scottish drug deaths hit five-year low

      Drug-related fatalities last year fell by 21% from 2021 but levels remain far higher than the UK average

      Syringes and other drug paraphernalia
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      UK politics
      Labour faces test of by-election appeal in Scotland after ex-SNP MP ousted

      Constituents trigger recall vote after Margaret Ferrier was found to have broken Covid travel rules

    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Scottish National Party
      Scotland’s police chief defends conduct of SNP investigation

      Probe has moved beyond ‘initial complaints’ as scandal continues to trouble party leadership

    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      UK politics
      Scotland calls on UK ministers to decriminalise possession of all drugs

      Ruling SNP calls for ‘bold and radical’ policy changes to reduce harm and deaths

      A needle and syringe being held in a safe space for drug users
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Scottish independence
      Orkney backs freedom bid after being ‘held down’ by Scotland and UK

      Councillors rule out rejoining Norway as archipelago considers ‘alternative forms of governance’

      The Orkney town of Stromness
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Scottish National Party
      Auditors flag issue with Scottish National party’s accounts

      Accountants provide a qualified audit opinion after highlighting missing documents

      People take part in a pro-independence parade in Glasgow in 2019
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Sturgeon admits Scotland’s Covid planning was ‘inadequate’

      Former first minister says diversion of resources to no-deal Brexit hindered pandemic strategy

      Nicola Sturgeon leaves the Covid-19 inquiry in London on Thursday
    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      News in-depthScottish independence
      Scottish independence reset undermined by confusion over SNP strategy

      Mixed messaging highlights challenge facing first minister Humza Yousaf in trying to satisfy impatient members

      Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf after his speech at the SNP independence convention in Dundee on Saturday
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      Scottish independence
      Scotland leader says poll victory will provide mandate to negotiate independence

      Humza Yousaf discards predecessor’s plan to use next UK election as a de facto referendum

    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Scottish National Party
      Humza Yousaf to set out new Scottish independence strategy

      SNP leader will address special party conference in attempt to move on from crises

      Humza Yousaf
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Scottish government sets out plan for written constitution

      First minister Humza Yousaf wants to safeguard rights contained in the ECHR

    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Robert Shrimsley
      Johnson, Sturgeon, Corbyn and the price of radical certainty

      Warnings from seeing the UK’s three most prominent leaders — and the most monomaniacal — blow up

      Illustration of Johnson, Corbyn and Sturgeon as dark clouds over parliament
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Nicola Sturgeon’s great success is becoming her great failure

      Running the SNP as a narrow clique worked well . . . until it didn’t

      Illustration of Nicola Sturgeon walking a fraying tightrope up in the clouds, dressed in a red trouser suit and high heels.
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Scottish National Party
      Humza Yousaf rejects calls to suspend Nicola Sturgeon from SNP

      First minister says he has ‘no reason’ to remove predecessor after she was arrested in finances probe

      Humza Yousaf and Nicola Sturgeon
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Starmer’s outlook brightens, but so does Sunak’s

      Boris Johnson’s departure from parliament and SNP finances probe boost Labour leader’s chances of reaching No 10

      Rishi Sunak
    • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
      News in-depthScottish National Party
      Sturgeon’s arrest delivers hammer blow to Nationalist cause

      Opponents see chance as former first minister questioned in widening police probe into SNP finances

      Nicola Sturgeon, left, with her successor Humza Yousaf
    • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
      Scottish National Party
      Sturgeon arrested in probe into SNP finances

      Former Scottish first minister later released without charge in escalation of police investigation

      Nicola Sturgeon attends her last First Minster’s Questions
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Humza Yousaf, assailed on many fronts, struggles to move on from Sturgeon era

      First minister beset by policy disputes in his first 10 weeks amid ongoing police investigation into SNP finances

      Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf
    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      News in-depthScottish National Party
      Backlash threatens Yousaf’s Scottish rape trial reforms

      First minister ‘committed’ to juryless pilot scheme despite mounting opposition

      Humza Yousaf
    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      Government of Scotland
      Scottish recycling scheme ignites fresh constitutional spat with Westminster

      Drinks industry says Edinburgh’s deposit return programme is impractical

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      News in-depthScottish National Party
      SNP accused of ‘moving the goalposts’ over independence campaign funds

      Critics say Scotland’s ruling party needs to explain what happened to £740,000 raised to fight a second referendum

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