Christopher A Whatley is affiliated with the Labour Party. It is the anniversary time of the Scottish referendum, in which the electorate voted Yes in overwhelming numbers. I don’t mean the 2014 poll, ...

Twenty years ago today, Scotland voted 3:1 for devolution in a referendum delivered by Tony Blair’s Labour government. Yet while today there are no calls for a return to direct rule, and while the ...

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Alex de Ruyter, director of the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University and David Hearne, researcher at the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University, on the prime ...

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Social media users have been sharing a video that shows Scottish Conservative Leader Douglas Ross saying: "The only way to strengthen the union is to abolish the Scottish Parliament". This has been ...

Michael Ancram, who has died aged 79, was a genial one nation Conservative politician tasked by Margaret Thatcher with steering the deeply unpopular poll tax through parliament, and later charged by ...

In 1998, the British Parliament fulfilled an election promise that then Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair had made in 1997 and passed the Scotland Act, paving the way for Scotland to elect its own ...

Had the Scots voted for independence in September’s referendum and Scotland had become a European Union member state, the cross-border legislation would have kicked in and defined benefit schemes with ...

Nationalists who regard devolution as an inadequate sop to their own holy grail naturally attribute Holyrood’s shortcomings to a lack of powers Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

If Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party campaigns on an ‘abolish Holyrood’ ticket, that would pose a real challenge for the Scottish Conservatives. But it would be potentially disastrous for my party to ...

Scottish Labour is set for its worst result of the devolution era as support for the party has “drained away in all directions” since its general election triumph. A poll has found that about half of ...