My pledge to the people of Scotland is that the SNP will never give in to these extremist voices – we will take on Farage, his toxic politics and his disastrous Brexit every step of the way.

But in an interview with the Scotsman podcast The Steamie, John Swinney expressed his worries over a rise in “populism” ahead ...

PATIENTS in Scotland are not getting “the right care in the right place at the right time”, the First Minister has said. John Swinney laid out a plan to improve Scotland’s ailing health service in a ...

Almost 18 years of SNP Government has left every single institution in Scotland weaker. In that time First Ministers have come and gone, Cabinets have been reshuffled, coalitions have formed and ...

John Swinney has admitted that there are "unacceptable" crises within Scotland’s NHS — months after Health Secretary Neil Gray claimed there was no crisis. The First Minister said some ...

John Swinney’s plan to save Scotland’s struggling NHS has no “detail” to make it a reality, doctors have warned after he pledged to deliver an extra 150,000 appointments and procedures ...

John Swinney will promise to modernise and renew Scotland’s beleaguered NHS with a significant increase in capacity. In what has been billed by the Scottish Government as a “major speech ...

As Finance Secretary, John Swinney was the architect of austerity in Scotland, striking budget deals with Tories and raiding Council budgets year after year. We can still see the devastating ...