John Swinney's is at risk of 'failing' children ... She said: “I was absolutely stunned by the amount of times my eldest daughter was returned from her foster family back to her parents.

The alternative is for Anas Sarwar and John Swinney to work together on issues they agree on. Both believe in the principle of a national care service and yet were unable to produce a joint scheme.

John Swinney has refused to say if rebel backbencher Fergus Ewing should stand for the SNP in next year’s Holyrood election. The SNP leader and Scottish First Minister would only state that ...

First Minister John Swinney has hit out at attempts by Labour to distance themselves from the controversy over women’s pensions and winter ...

John Swinney is under fire to explain how public bodies including the NHS are navigating the Equality Act amid a political ...

John Swinney has been accused of having "no plan" to achieve Scottish independence after the subject was absent from a recent series of high-profile speeches by the First Minister. The SNP leader ...

John Swinney has been accused of having "no plan" to achieve Scottish independence after the subject was absent from a recent series of high-profile speeches by the First Minister. The SNP leader ...

JOHN Swinney was tonight accused of deploying “granny bouncers” at the door of every A&E to turn away OAPs deemed not sick enough to come in. Rivals attacked the First Minister after he ...

Just as we must hold the SNP’s feet to the fire over the state of the NHS, we should welcome signs that ministers are at least trying to do the right thing John Swinney’s new focus on the NHS ...

In that time First Ministers have come and gone, Cabinets have been reshuffled, coalitions have formed and collapsed – but one constant has been John Swinney. John Swinney has been at the heart ...

Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a conciliatory, decent man whose defining, lasting legacy with his party and his ...

John Swinney says his government will harness new technologies to bring down waiting times First Minister John Swinney had pledged his government will bring down NHS waiting lists and make it ...