MSPs 'must back private jet tax' as super rich 'burn through carbon budget in 10 days'
Oxfam Scotland says shocking milestone highlights the need for Holyrood budget to rein in lavish private jet culture amongst ...
SNP urged to tax 'lavish lifestyles' of super-rich after pollution limit breached in just 10 days
SNP ministers should target the “poster child of climate injustice” by introducing a private jet tax, campaigned have warned.
Bond villain Elon Musk's influence seeps into Scottish Parliament and its 'populism' war
In the first Holyrood scrap of 2025, John Swinney and Russell Findlay clashed in a fiery FMQs inspired by Elon Musk.
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Tories: Labour abstention means 'cheapest Budget deal' since devolution
Scottish Labour abstaining in the vote on the Scottish Government’s Budget amounts to the “cheapest” deal on the tax and ...
SNP and Tories accuse each other of being populist parties at FMQs
Russell Findlay gets to his feet again and says Swinney is the leader of "Scotland's populist party". The Scottish Tory leader adds: "John Swinney sounds like a serial arsonist suddenly warning people ...
Labour abstention means ‘cheapest budget deal’ since devolution – Findlay
Scottish Labour abstaining in the vote on the Scottish Government’s Budget amounts to the “cheapest” deal on the tax and ...
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Is begging for Budget support the best John Swinney can do?
THE main points of John Swinney’s recent speech had already been published in Monday’s National accompanied by the headline “Swinney to ...
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We'll judge you on what you deliver, Mr Swinney, not what you promise
Be grateful for small mercies. We have been spared this year’s edition of the Scottish Budget faux drama in which a bit player emerges from ...
SNP's bloated benefits bill to soar by £700million
Scotland's benefits bill could soar by £700million under SNP plans to scrap the two-child cap - with fears 'benefits tourists ...
Swinney taking ‘nothing for granted’ on Budget despite Labour plans to abstain
The First Minister said the announcement Labour MSPs will abstain in Budget votes made him ‘more confident’ the proposals will pass.
Benefit claimants 'may move from England to Scotland' for extra handouts as they exploit SNP plans to scrap two-child cap on Universal Credit, report warns
Holyrood's independent budget watchdog, the Scottish Fiscal Commission, says the SNP's move would be worth around £3,600 per ...
Why John Swinney's warning about medicine rationing was actually a threat
As the leader of a minority government, John Swinney has a duty to negotiate with other parties to enable key legislation, ...