respected the unanimous ruling of the UK Supreme Court that Scotland does not have the power to hold a referendum. Ms Sturgeon had wanted to hold a referendum on 19 October next year but the UK ...

Ten years on from the historic independence referendum, Scotland is in a sorry state of disrepair and disunity. Since 2014, the endless debate about so-called independence - or breaking up the ...

Ten years after the independence referendum, Scotland cannot leave behind its “toxic legacy of division” until the “fanatical” SNP is removed from power, Douglas Ross has said. The ...

And yet the independence supporting radical left, by far the dominant part of the left in Scotland, was presented less than ten years later with an opportunity for both salvation and redemption in the ...

This year is the tenth anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, which whilst the motion for independence was defeated, set in train a groundswell in ...

On March 30, 1989, I put my name to the Claim of Right for Scotland. This was the document that declared the people of ...

He was 69. Salmond, who was one of the most divisive figure in British politics at the turn of the century and who as the then leader of the Scottish National Party took Scotland to the brink of ...

A year later, he created a new party called Alba — the Scottish Gaelic word for Scotland — that made few inroads into Scottish politics and sought a new independence referendum come what may.

He brought Scotland closer to independence from the United Kingdom than at any other time in the Union's 300-year history during the 2014 referendum while he was leader of the SNP. Defeat for the ...

Alex Salmond, the former first minister of Scotland who led the 2014 independence referendum, has died at the age of 69. The ex-Scottish National Party leader collapsed and died on Saturday ...

such as Richard Arkless of Business for Scotland.” The party said yesterday that over 8,000 new members had joined since the referendum. Scottish Greens election co-ordinator Ross Greer said that his ...

Mr Salmond used his mandate as first minister to hold a 2014 referendum on Scottish independence - resigning the day after the "Yes Scotland" campaign was defeated.