Novelist Allan Massie ponders how the birthplace of Adam Smith and Walter Scott declined into a depressing culture of ...

Of the 37 Scottish Labour MPs, 15 now have front bench jobs, from the Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander to half-a-dozen ...

(Bloomberg) -- Scotland faces a significant political reset after the Labour Party pummeled the Scottish National Party in UK-wide elections, dealing a thumping setback to its already-fading hopes of ...

Populist politician Nigel Farage rallied supporters Saturday in Scotland, decrying immigration, climate change mitigations ...

(Bloomberg) -- The disarray engulfing the Scottish National Party — for years one of Britain’s most effective and dominant political parties — will likely have far-reaching implications ahead of a ...

Holyrood is back for the final parliamentary term before next year's Scottish elections. It feels like politics has been locked into campaign mode since before last summer's general election, but we ...

Alex Salmond, former Scottish First Minister, former leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and then leader of the Alba Party died suddenly last week, having just completed a speech to the ...

LONDON — Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday, triggering a leadership contest as the governing Scottish National Party seeks to avoid early elections. Yousaf, whose party has ...

Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland who for decades championed Scotland's independence from the U.K., has died. He was 69. Salmond, who was a divisive figure in British politics and ...

LONDON (AP) — Scotland’s leader is facing a fight for his political survival after he ended a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change ...

LONDON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Scottish former First Minister Alex Salmond, who helped change the course of Scottish politics and pushed Scotland to the verge of independence from the United Kingdom, died ...

The 2003 Scottish elections were a setback for the SNP. Despite demanding that the election should be turned into a referendum on the Iraq war, the calls were lost amidst the emergence of anti-war ...