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IndyRef 2 feels a long way off. The SNP need to show that they have something to offer for Scotland’s short-term future

For Generation X, it lives on in Scottish politics, culture and memory

During a recent book event with school children in Glasgow, the issue didn't register highly on their radar

With so many plates spinning, John Swinney must now hope they don’t all come crashing down

Will Starmer’s inaction on Brexit help strengthen the cause of Scottish independence?

The party is now the minnow of British politics

Unlike Nicola Sturgeon or Alex Salmond, the new SNP leader doesn’t just lack a personality cult, but a personality to form a cult around in the first place

In calling a summer election, the prime minister reduced the power of the younger vote in Britain’s university cities

Humza Yousaf played a tough hand badly, but his party’s problems are deeper than just one man

Humza Yousaf tried to steamroll the SNP’s coalition partner. It cost him his career

Scotland’s hate speech law is a disaster. We need serious government, not toytown politics

The SNP are using a new referendum as a wedge issue in their fight against Labour

Procedural manoeuvres, bellowing and walk-outs – there’s a good reason for it all

The SNP’s Europe spokesman, Alyn Smith, knows it won’t be easy, but the party can now see its path back to EU membership

Ed Davey needs to do what Paddy Ashdown would have done – campaign to Rejoin. The Lib Dems’ vote in one-nation Tory constituencies will soar

Humza Yousaf disagrees, but there is growing SNP acceptance that winning a referendum is not just around the corner

The first minister elect vows to take an independent Scotland back into the EU

This will be the year Scottish artists put IndyRef2 on their setlists

A senior SNP politician has apologised after claiming that Scotland “hates the UK” after the final vote of the Eurovision song contest saw it come last with nil points. James Newman’s Embers, the track from the British hopeful, was the only contestant to scored zero points from the jury vote and from the public vote. […]

Boris Johnson has laughed off claims that he’s planning “planning to throw our farmers and crofters under the Brexit bus” over trade negotiations with Australia. There had reportedly been a spat in cabinet over fears a zero-tariff agreement to benefit Australian farmers could inflame tensions in Wales and Scotland, as two areas where the farming community would […]

Scotland’s newest MP told how she hopes to be a role model for other minorities after being elected to Westminster. New SNP MP Anum Qaisar-Javed also pledged she would “fight for independence” after being elected to represent the constituency of Airdrie and Shotts. The by-election, which took place just a week after the Scottish Parliament […]

The Tories privately admit there is a mandate for a second referendum on Scottish independence and that it could take place as early as 2023, a former adviser has said. Ex-communications chief for the Scottish Conservatives Andy Maclver told STV’s Scotland Tonight that it was “perfectly obvious” last week’s election results were a mandate for Indyred2. […]

The SNP and Scottish Greens have hit out at plans for voter identification contained in the Queen’s Speech, while the Scottish secretary says it “delivers for Scotland”. Proposals in the UK government’s legislative programme would require voters to have photo identification in Westminster elections. Of the 33 Bills set out in the Queen’s Speech, 30 […]

Gordon Brown is launching a fresh campaign to keep Scotland in the UK in the wake of the SNP’s latest election victory. The former Labour prime minister declared that the think tank he set up, Our Scottish Future, will become a “campaigning movement” to make the “positive, progressive and patriotic case for Scotland in Britain”. […]

The SNP has won an emphatic victory in the Holyrood elections, but did not gain an overall majority. Nicola Sturgeon’s party took 64 seats – 62 in constituencies and one on the Highlands and Islands and another in the South Scotland regional list – one shy of a majority but well ahead of the Tories […]

Alex Salmond will not return to the Scottish Parliament after he failed in his bid to pick up a seat on the North East regional list. The former first minster had hoped to boost the Scottish independence cause by returning to frontline politics with his Alba Party. But his party failed to pick up a […]

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said she wants to hold a referendum on Scottish independence “when the time is right”, as she retained her Glasgow seat. Giving an acceptance speech in Glasgow after she defeated Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar by 19,735 votes to 10,279, the first minister said her party is set for a […]

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is “extremely confident” the party is heading back into power at Holyrood – although she conceded winning an overall majority of MSPs there is a “very, very long shot”. As early results started to come in from Thursday’s Scottish parliament elections, the Scottish first minister downplayed the prospect of winning a […]

The SNP will be the “leading and largest party” in the new Scottish parliament, deputy first minister John Swinney has declared – though he said it was still too early to say if the party would win an overall majority at Holyrood. Swinney, also the education secretary in the Scottish government, comfortably held his Perthshire […]

Pollsters have said that “razor-thin margins” will determine whether Nicola Sturgeon wins an overall majority at Holyrood on Thursday. Research by Opinium found support for the SNP was down slightly in both the constituency and regional list section of the ballot. In the constituency vote, support for the SNP was at 51%, a drop of […]

Alex Salmond’s Alba Party is on course to win eight seats at next week’s Holyrood election, according to a new poll. The survey also suggests the Scottish Greens will return 11 MSPs, with the SNP, Scottish Conservatives and Scottish Labour all losing seats. Polling by Panelbase for the Scot Goes Pop website found 6% of […]

The SNP is demanding that Boris Johnson should resign if reports he said he would rather see “bodies pile high in their thousands” than have a third English lockdown are true. Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, said Johnson had a “duty to resign” and called for the PM to address the reports in parliament and […]