Data obtained by the Scottish Conservatives has revealed the civil service wage bill has risen by £42m in the past two ...

John Swinney, first minister for Scotland, has pledged that the country’s ‘Digital Front Door’ platform will launch by the ...

A Scottish Labour “implosion” means voters are set to return the largest pro-independence Holyrood majority in the history of ...

The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said he “can’t control” people defecting to Reform UK after his most senior councillor in the country’s largest local authority joined Nigel ...

the leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said. Russell Findlay warned against "being tempted by what amounts to a protest vote" as he addressed activists in Edinburgh. He insisted only the ...

The Conservatives are visually trying to ape ... that Reform will argue for that there’s no way I would put them in a Scottish Government budget. “Absolutely no way. “So I want to be as ...

The Scottish Conservative group leader on Glasgow City Council has defected to Reform UK. Thomas Kerr, who represents the Shettleston ward, was first elected as a 20-year-old in 2017 and became ...

The Scottish Conservatives are to force a vote in Holyrood on Wednesday calling on the SNP health secretary to resign. The party said Neil Gray’s time in charge of the NHS had been “disastrous ...

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