Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain is to step down after five years, it has been confirmed. Bain, the country’s most senior law officer, has told the first minister she intends to leave office, the Scottish ...

Kenneth Gibson has been elected as presiding officer (PO) of the seventh session of the Scottish Parliament. Gibson was ...

John Swinney has said his government is working on measures to prevent the costs associated with food price caps being ...

He is the first cabinet minister to resign since Labour suffered heavy defeats in the Scottish, Welsh, and English ...

The UK is to become the first country in the world to introduce laws to target the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for child abuse imagery. Four new laws will make it illegal to possess or ...

Joe Griffin has been appointed as the new permanent secretary to the Scottish Government. He will succeed John-Paul Marks in the highest civil servant position in Scotland from April. Marks previously ...

The SNP has challenged Anas Sarwar to whip Scottish Labour MPs into backing a vote of no confidence in Keir Starmer. The ...

Nigel Farage is facing a probe by the parliamentary standards commissioner regarding a £5m gift he received shortly before ...

A senior Scottish Labour MP has resigned from government and called for Keir Starmer to go. Zubir Ahmed, who has been serving ...

Manivannan’s immigration status has been subject to debate, with Green co-leader Gillian Mackay telling the BBC that she was ...

The UK Government has restated its opposition to issuing new oil and gas licences in the North Sea as it looks to an ...

A Scottish Greens MSP has been elected to Holyrood despite it being unclear whether they will be able to serve the full term.