First Minister John Swinney defends Nicola Sturgeon whom Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay says was a failure in office. The former FM announced this week that she would not be standing ...

First Minister John Swinney has defended the record of Nicola Sturgeon from attacks by the Scottish Conservative leader. The ...

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay believes former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, who announced she was stepping down as an MSP, resided over a catalogue of failure.

Swinney says Findlay’s tone towards Sturgeon is “graceless ... from the SNP ahead of next year’s Holyrood election. John Swinney meanwhile always has an SNP backbencher lined up with ...

There is an extent to which John Swinney has healed the wounds caused ... he can gee up his electoral base by going after Nicola Sturgeon. That’s particularly true on the issue of gender ...