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 ...

The First Minister is expected to make the announcement during a meeting with healthcare officials later on Monday.

Writing in his regular Record column, the Scottish Labour leader says John Swinney's years at the heart of the SNP Government ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Audit Scotland said last month that "difficult ... Scottish Conservative health spokesperson Sandesh Gulhane said: "John Swinney has been at the heart of the SNP government for 18 years and ...

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 ...