Scotland’s First Minister has insisted there “must be no ethnic cleansing”, after Donald Trump declared the US could “take ...

John Swinney has condemned as “completely unacceptable” suggestions from Donald Trump that the US could take ownership of the ...

Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a conciliatory, decent man whose defining, lasting legacy with his party and his ...

John Swinney has warned local authorities raising council tax by 10 per cent is "too high". The First Minister said councils had been privately "welcoming" their budget funding from the Scottish ...

First Minister John Swinney claimed the Tories are trying to mimic Reform in a bid to avoid losing voters to Nigel Farage’s party (Jane Barlow/PA) Scotland’s First Minister has said there is ...

But in an interview with the Scotsman podcast The Steamie, John Swinney expressed his worries over a rise in “populism” ahead of the vote, saying he would not work with Reform in the way he ...

John Swinney has accused a major banking group of “failing” Scottish communities amid looming bank closures. Lloyds Banking Group announced 14 Bank of Scotland branches will close across the ...