One of the most consequential – and divisive – politicians of his generation, Alex Salmond, who has died aged 69, transformed the Scottish National Party from a fringe party into a "formidable ...

A former Labour first minister of Scotland, Henry McLeish, has criticised the Scottish Government for a failure of responsibility over its unlawful handling of sexual harassment complaints against ...

The First Minister was challenged on a “litany of failures, errors in the investigation, errors in the judicial review and errors in the supply of information”, as she was asked why no-one had ...

The Scottish government has been ordered to publish some of the written evidence from an investigation into whether Nicola Sturgeon broke the ministerial code. The former first minister was cleared of ...

A woman who came forward with allegations of sexual harassment by Alex Salmond has found the Holyrood committee’s investigation “more traumatic” than the High Court trial of the former first minister.

SCOTLAND’S top civil servant may have destroyed notes of a meeting with Nicola Sturgeon linked to the Alex Salmond probe, documents obtained by The Scottish Sun suggest. Permanent Secretary Leslie ...

He led the Scottish National Party twice, guiding it from a fringe political group into a powerful electoral force in Britain. By Megan Specia If the pro-independence vote surges in Thursday’s ...

Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former First Minister who has died aged 69, was the dominant figure in the Scottish National Party during its odyssey from the political fringe to the independence referendum ...

Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond has claimed that his bank account was accessed by The Observer newspaper. The SNP leader made the allegation while giving evidence yesterday at the Leveson ...

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Nicola Sturgeon resigned as first minister and will stand down as an MSP next year [PA Media] The Scottish government has been ordered to publish some of the written evidence from an investigation ...