Nicola Sturgeon’s “Stalinist” approach to leadership had “disastrous” consequences for the SNP, former SNP MP Joanna Cherry has told an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Nicola Sturgeon is an anti-intellectual who ran the country and her party in a “Stalinist” way, former SNP MP Joanna Cherry has said. Ms Cherry, an outspoken critic of the ex-first minister, said ...

Nicola Sturgeon has said one of her predecessors gave one of the finest speeches in Scottish history. In her book, Frankly, she describes the early days of the Scottish Parliament and the hope and ...

ALEX Salmond was a former first minister of Scotland who led the SNP twice, from 1990 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2014. He first joined the party in 1973 and led the SNP into power when they won the ...

Former first minister Alex Salmond has been remembered as not just the political leader who took Scotland “so close to his dream of independence”, but as a “dear friend”. Tributes were paid to the ...

Salmond's career as the Scottish National Party’s leading representative and the SNP’s record in government serve as devastating refutations of its “progressive” claims and the fatuous ...

One of the most consequential – and divisive – politicians of his generation, Alex Salmond, who has died aged 69, transformed the Scottish National Party from a fringe party into a "formidable ...

Alex Salmond: Body of former first minister returns home to Scotland The former first minister of Scotland died on Saturday at the age of 69 during a trip to Ohrid in North Macedonia.

Alex Salmond launches the Your Scotland, Your Referendum paper, January 2012 [Photo by Scottish Government / CC BY 2.0] His death generated an outpouring of feigned sympathy from the British ...

The family of Alex Salmond have said the former Scottish first minister was "a devoted and loving husband, a fiercely loyal brother, a proud and thoughtful uncle and a faithful and trusted friend ...

Alex Salmond launched fresh legal action against the Scottish government in November 2023 The acting leader of the Alba Party says he hopes Alex Salmond's legal case against the Scottish ...

Alex Salmond, Scotland's former first minister and champion of his country's independence movement, died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 69.