The FM was keen to reassure MSPs that the Scottish Government ... to do so this year. Read more: John Swinney calls on SNP to ...

Mr Swinney set out his first legislative programme earlier this month (Image: Michael Boyd/PA Wire) MSP Liam McArthur is ...

Swinney said he would concentrate on building support for independence in contrast to his predecessor's focus on elections.

John Swinney was adamant his four priorities would be central to his first programme for government - but what the FM left ...

Labour said workers across the under-pressure health service had been pushed to "breaking point" at a time one in six Scots ...

John Swinney was last night accused of being in denial over ‘SNP austerity’ as Scotland faces ... briefed him in May after he replaced Humza Yousaf as FM about the ‘dire state of the public ...

EFirst Minister John Swinney talks with Stephen Flynn, leader of the SNP Westminster group ... “we face an acute financial challenge”. The FM said his government’s choices that will be ...

JUST three in ten voters feel favourably towards under-fire John Swinney, a poll reveals. And most Scots believe the SNP Government is not performing well in 13 key areas. Survation’s research ...

NATS ministers are set to water down plans for rent controls as part of John Swinney’s axing of Scottish Green policies, the ...

The First Minister said the fight to eradicate child poverty was at the heart of his Programme for Government.