HMP Glasgow: Cost of replacement jail for HMP Barlinnie soars to almost £1bn
The cost of HMP Glasgow has more than doubled from its 2019 estimate of £400m to £998.4m. This is nearly 10 times the ...
Holyrood10d
Scottish Conservatives accuse SNP of ‘breathtaking hypocrisy’ over civil service costs
Data obtained by the Scottish Conservatives has revealed the civil service wage bill has risen by £42m in the past two ...
Swinney rules out working with Reform on future Scottish budget
The Conservatives are visually trying to ape Reform to avoid ... because there’ll be things that Reform will argue for that ...
Budget strategy and risk pays off for Swinney
In certain circumstances that could have brought down John Swinney's administration and triggered an election. Instead, the ...
The Scotsman8d
How Tories' obsession with Neil Gray risks overshadowing very real NHS pressures
Conservative MSP Dr Sandesh Gulhane Despite ... John Swinney has pretty much admitted as such. Scotland is not alone in reviving health services five years after the pandemic - but it is felt ...
Digital Health10d
Scotland’s ‘Digital Front Door’ to launch this year, says first minister
John Swinney, first minister for Scotland, has pledged that the country’s ‘Digital Front Door’ platform will launch by the ...
The Daily Telegraph21d
Scottish Tory leader says he ‘cannot control’ defections to Reform as senior councillor leaves
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said he “can’t control” people defecting to Reform UK after his most senior councillor in the country’s largest local authority joined Nigel ...
Scotland heading for largest pro-independence majority in history
A Scottish Labour “implosion” means voters are set to return the largest pro-independence Holyrood majority in the history of ...
The Scotsman23d
Voting Reform in Scotland will only benefit SNP, warns Scottish Tory leader
the leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said. Russell Findlay warned against "being tempted by what amounts to a protest vote" as he addressed activists in Edinburgh. He insisted only the ...
AOL21d
Scottish Conservative councillor defects to Reform
The Scottish Conservative group leader on Glasgow City Council has defected to Reform UK. Thomas Kerr, who represents the Shettleston ward, was first elected as a 20-year-old in 2017 and became ...