Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will carry out a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet team on Sunday according to reports.

Reaction and live updates following the Scottish Election 2021

Most political crises come from nowhere and take everyone by surprise. But some have been staring us in the face for months, years even, and they still hit us unprepared. Such is the constitutional crisis over Scotland’s place in the Union.

Michael Gove has insisted that the priorities of the Scottish Government should be recovery and that any circumstances in which Boris Johnson might agree to another referendum are 'not an issue at the moment'.

Scotland’s public land is being sold off to housing developers building luxury homes and sidelining local people, we can reveal.

The Scottish National Party won the 2021 Scottish Parliament election by a landslide, even if it didn't win an absolute majority of seats. The question now is what does Nicola Sturgeon do with this victory?

KEIR Starmer’s silence and rictus grin, as he left his London home to run the media gauntlet following last week’s raft of bad election results for Labour in England, said it all.

WAS it the secret war carried out by British agents inside the IRA which brought the Troubles to a close? Did British intelligence manipulate Sinn Fein into peace? Did either side really “win” the war in Ulster?

ALL eyes were on Aberdeenshire West.

WITHOUT a major increase in real-terms investment in the health service over the coming decade the country faces “a continued deterioration in service provision, worsening health outcomes and inequalities, and an NHS that is poorly equipped to r...

Police dispersed more people for Covid breaches this week than any other seven-day period since the beginning of the pandemic.

The front pages of Scottish and nation newspapers unsurprisingly focused on the SNP's election victory and a mandate for Scottish independence.

The Scottish Greens’ co-leader Lorna Slater said her party will have “greater influence in Holyrood than ever before” following the party’s best election performance.

Forgive me for I may be about to sin in regard to political correctness, but it seems many women require significantly more wardrobe space than your average bloke.

Making the distinction between mainstream conservatism and far-right extremism was once obvious, but these days the lines between the two have become increasingly blurred. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines the potential threat this poses in Euro...

Scotrail has once again warned customers that the bulk of rail services will be cancelled due to industrial action.

"It's a very special, unique and precious place," says Arwin Salwand, taking in the view.

IT could be a call from a luxury fashion brand to have one of their dresses shipped to Beyonce for an awards ceremony in the USA or to deliver an item for a mystery royal at Kensington Palace – fashion business executive Susie Palmer never knows...

The mystery of the ancients: Orkney's Ring Of Brodgar

The full text of the letter sent to Nicola Sturgeon by the Prime Minister this afternoon:

Follow our Scottish Parliamentary election tracker for live results, and see which seats have been called so far and who has been elected in your area.

Alex Salmond has failed in his bid to return to the Scottish Parliament after losing out on the North East regional list.

Scottish voters have elected a majority of pro-Scottish independence MSPs to Holyrood.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has his eyes set on new goals for the 2026 elections.

The Scottish Conservatives have matched their best ever result at a Scottish Parliament election as new leader Douglas Ross maintained the 31-seat total won in 2016.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has been sacked as party chairman in the aftermath of election results according to reports.

Nicola Sturgeon has declared “it is the will of the country” for Scotland to have a second Scottish independence referendum, after a majority of pro-independence MSPs were elected in the Holyrood election.

Kaukab Stewart has made history as the first woman of colour to be elected to Holyrood.

THE Scottish Conservatives have held the key seat of Galloway and West Dumfries with an increased majority.

THERE is now "no conceivable path" to an SNP majority after the party failed to gain a key seat in the north-east.

Check how many seats are needed for a majority as results from the Scottish Parliament elections come in.

DOUGLAS Ross has said Alex Salmond must now leave frontline politics.

Humza Yousaf has said that Boris Johnson and the Westminster Government can expect a legal battle if they try and prevent a pro-independence majority seeking to hold Indyref2.

A QUARTER of voters believe Scotland already has a mandate for a second referendum, regardless of the result of the elections, while 40 per cent believe the opposite, according to a new study.

The newly elected MSP for Edinburgh Central was quizzed about the possibility of holding the referendum if the party did not secure at least 65 seats. 

THE SNP has held on to its most marginal seat in Perthshire South and Kinross.

BORIS Johnson has continued to dismiss the prospect of a second referendum, despite the likelihood that a pro-independence majority of MSPs are to be elected to the Scottish Parliament.

NICOLA Sturgeon "lost her nerve" on independence and has never recovered it, Alex Salmond has said.

Police are investigating a possible case of electoral fraud at the Edinburgh count for the Holyrood election.

SNP hopes of winning another Holyrood majority were fading last night, although the outcome of the most consequential election of devolution remains in the balance.

Votes for the Scottish Green Party are up across the country but the margins for seat gains on the regional lists are very slim, co-leader Patrick Harvie has said.