Read in full the official comments by John Swinney, SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland, on the death of Alex Salmond.

The SNP is strongly committed to giving Scotland a choice on our future after the covid crisis. Tackling Covid to keep people in Scotland safe has been, and will remain, the top priority of an SNP ...

Born in Edinburgh in 1964, John graduated with MA Honours Politics from Edinburgh University. He joined the SNP in 1979, and has over his many years of service to the party held a number of posts at ...

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Whatever our future holds, that future will be better if it created by us – the people of Scotland. We have to make that happen – and we have to do so together. We've got what it takes - to create ...

Neil Gray is the MSP for Airdrie and Shotts, first elected in the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. Prior to that, he served as the MP at Westminster for the same constituency. In March 2023, he ...

All 27 members of the European Union and the UK are – by definition – independent countries. Nine of them have smaller populations than Scotland. The SNP believe in independence for Scotland, but also ...

George Adam is the MSP for Paisley and currently serves as the Minister for Cabinet and Parliamentary Business.

The SNP supports the creation of a robust regulatory framework to ensure that the UK economy is not vulnerable to a re-run of the 2008 financial crisis. The SNP will support measures including the ...

Westminster’s commitment to nuclear weapons leaves other aspects of our defence weakened. Nuclear weapons are wrong strategically, morally and financially. Westminster’s irresponsible obsession with ...

We place great importance on Scotland being a good global citizen. This means playing our part in tackling global challenges including poverty, injustice and inequality. It is clear that COVID-19 will ...

One of the very first acts of the new SNP Government was to restore Scotland’s historic tradition of free education and scrap tuition fees. We have always maintained that access to education should be ...