Swinney stages reshuffle amid SNP infighting
It’s a busy day in politics and the SNP is keen not to be left out of the action. As…
Nigel Farage’s grand plan to reindustrialise Wales
‘Our ambition is to reindustrialise Wales,’ Reform’s Nigel Farage announced to a small room lit up with turquoise lights at…
Scottish Labour wins Hamilton in spite of Starmer
In the early hours of this morning, Scottish Labour won the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election in a three-way contest…
Winter fuel payments will be reinstated this year, Reeves insists
Labour’s winter fuel payment cut has proven one of the most controversial policies brought in by the party since it…
No one won the Hamilton by-election debate
‘How useful are TV debates anyway?’ a Labour figure scoffed when I asked why their candidate in the Hamilton by-election…
Reform’s Scottish surge continues
Nigel Farage’s first trip to Scotland in six years hasn’t lacked drama. In Aberdeen this morning, the Reform UK leader…
Can Scotland learn to love Farage?
There’s not much that’s green in Larkhall, Scotland. So staunchly Protestant unionist is the ex-mining town in South Lanarkshire that…
Is support for Scotland’s euthanasia bill dying?
While Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill makes its way through the UK parliament, in Scotland a separate assisted dying bill…
Reform looms large for Scotland’s Unionists
The last twelve months in Britain have seen a general election, leadership contests, council polls, mayoral races and even a…
What was new in John Swinney’s Programme for Government?
The countdown is on, with only a year to go until Scottish voters cast their ballots in the 2026 Holyrood…
Ash Regan: Scottish politicians have been gaslighting the public for years
Ash Regan quit Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP government almost three years ago in protest at the former first minister’s controversial gender…
Reform’s next challenge is delivery
The Cholmondeley Arms is set just off the main road of the quaint, red-bricked market town of Frodsham. Not that…
Your guide to the 2025 election results
Tomorrow, voters will go to the polls in Sir Keir Starmer’s first big electoral test as Prime Minister. Across England,…
Is a Scottish visa the answer to Scotland’s workforce crisis?
There aren’t many politicians calling for a rise in immigration to Britain at the moment, but you can count on…
How well are Wes Streeting’s health reforms going?
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has made a lot of promises about the NHS. Before he got into power, he talked…
Helen Joyce shares her joy at Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court has unanimously backed the biological definition of a woman. Women’s rights campaigners across the country are celebrating…
Parliament recalled to nationalise British Steel
MPs didn’t manage to enjoy even a week of recess before being ordered back to Westminster. The Speaker announced this…
Could resident doctors go on strike again?
As if Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn’t have enough to worry about overseas with Donald Trump’s tariffs, now old tensions…
Are the Scottish Tories becoming irrelevant?
Another day, another poll that shows Reform could, from a standing start, pick up at least 14 seats at the…
The ‘physician associate’ will see you now…
There is a war being waged in NHS hospitals. On one side are overstretched junior doctors in understaffed wards. On…
Starmer scraps NHS England
It was widely briefed that the main focus of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in Yorkshire today was his plan to…
What does the SNP exodus mean for the party’s 2026 line-up?
There is little over a year to go until the 2026 Holyrood election and Scottish party selection processes are underway.…
Can Reform land a knockout blow in Hull?
It was to a packed-out auditorium that Nigel Farage announced his party’s mayoral candidate for Hull and East Yorkshire on…
Medical students are being let down
It’s allocation day for junior doctor jobs. Soon-to-be medical graduates across the UK find out what deanery they will work…
Scotland’s education stats pose a problem for the SNP
The SNP may be outperforming Scottish Labour in the polls, but the party of government still faces tough questions on…
