This has been, in truth, a faintly surreal conference. Not, to be clear, that this curious atmosphere owes anything to the SNP. Firstly, there is the venue, the new Aberdeen conference centre on the ...

John Swinney has been accused of unveiling a ‘half-baked’ promise to set up a new network of walk-in GP centres. The First Minister used his keynote address to the SNP conference to announce that 15 ...

Coming days after Nicola Sturgeon's call for "indyref2" to take place before 2021, debates over independence are set to take an even more prominent role than usual at the SNP's spring conference. The ...

THE First Minister may be feeling on top of the world ahead of the SNP conference but, as Ian Swanson reports, it will take a superhero to change public opinion on independence AFTER signing the ...

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