Scottish National Party

When Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham claimed that Holyrood behaves like Westminster by “centralising” power away from local authorities, he wasn’t just missing the mark … again … he was rewriting history. For a Labour figure to lecture Scotland on local empowerment is the height of ironic hypocrisy. The truth is that on a number of occasions when the SNP has handed real...

A damning new report has laid bare the catastrophic reality of Westminster’s creeping privatisation agenda, warning that a shocking trade deal negotiated by UK Labour ministers with the White House could cost over 200,000 lives. New analysis published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reveals that the Labour Westminster government has completely capitulated to US big pharm...

We’ve seen some half-hearted pitches from Westminster politicians over the years, but Andy Burnham’s latest attempt to woo Scottish voters takes the Caramel Wafer. Writing in The Scotsman, the presumed Prime Minister-in-waiting laid out his grand vision for the country. It was packed with poetic flourishes about bringing “hope to every heart” and creating “good growth in ever...

Back in March 2025, we asked a simple question based on independent economic analysis: Do you feel £1,400 better off every year? We asked it because that was the amount of money the Westminster government said every Scot would be better off every year if the voted ‘No’ in the 2014 independence referendum. Yet, due to the very same Westminster government’s disastrous economic ...

The case for transferring full control of energy policy to the Scottish Parliament has never been more urgent. As we head toward what is shaping up to be a winter of deep financial hardship for households across the country, it is clearer than ever that the only way to secure affordable, stable energy bills for the people and businesses of Scotland is to take control of our o...