The SNP is on track to secure a comfortable victory in May’s Holyrood election, according to new polling. The Ipsos Scotland ...

An SNP candidate in May's Holyrood election is standing down after it emerged she is being investigated over an alleged benefits fraud. As first reported by The Scotsman, Sally Donald - who was ...

The survey by Ipsos Scotland spoke to 1,096 people between February 19 and 25, with the SNP maintaining its lead with 36% of ...

Sally Donald had been selected to run in Edinburgh Southern, but told local members on Wednesday she had ‘regrettably’ decided to stand down ...

A relatively recent example might be Kate Forbes, who was heavily scrutinised for her Christian faith when she ran for the ...

The Scottish Conservative leader has told his UK party conference that the SNP is turning Scotland into a "laboratory for weird and wacky policies". Russell Findlay criticised what he saw as a series ...

Counting staff check ballot papers in the Scottish Parliament elections at the Emirates Arena, Glasgow, in 2016. A woman on the left is pouring a box of pink papers onto a table, which is covered with ...

Politics professor Sir John Curtice of Strathclyde University says: "Scotland remains more or less divided down the middle on ...

More than a dozen European countries that once had wealth taxes abolished them because of their negative effects ...

JOHN Swinney’s World Cup bank holiday on June 15 was initially welcomed as a feelgood boost to the nation following our ...