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  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    SNP appoints former comms chief as chief executive

    Murray Foote rejoins party after stepping down over membership figures row

    Murray Foote
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Scotland’s police chief defends conduct of SNP investigation

    Probe has moved beyond ‘initial complaints’ as scandal continues to trouble party leadership

  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    UK Covid inquiry
    Sturgeon admits Scotland’s Covid planning was ‘inadequate’

    Former first minister says diversion of resources to no-deal Brexit hindered pandemic strategy

    Nicola Sturgeon leaves the Covid-19 inquiry in London on Thursday
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Robert Shrimsley
    Johnson, Sturgeon, Corbyn and the price of radical certainty

    Warnings from seeing the UK’s three most prominent leaders — and the most monomaniacal — blow up

    Illustration of Johnson, Corbyn and Sturgeon as dark clouds over parliament
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    Nicola Sturgeon’s great success is becoming her great failure

    Running the SNP as a narrow clique worked well . . . until it didn’t

    Illustration of Nicola Sturgeon walking a fraying tightrope up in the clouds, dressed in a red trouser suit and high heels.
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Humza Yousaf rejects calls to suspend Nicola Sturgeon from SNP

    First minister says he has ‘no reason’ to remove predecessor after she was arrested in finances probe

    Humza Yousaf and Nicola Sturgeon
  • Monday, 12 June, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Scotland’s Sturgeon arrested

    Boris Johnson’s exit from parliament creates a headache for the Conservative party

  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    News in-depthScottish National Party
    Sturgeon’s arrest delivers hammer blow to Nationalist cause

    Opponents see chance as former first minister questioned in widening police probe into SNP finances

    Nicola Sturgeon, left, with her successor Humza Yousaf
  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Sturgeon arrested in probe into SNP finances

    Former Scottish first minister later released without charge in escalation of police investigation

    Nicola Sturgeon attends her last First Minster’s Questions
  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    News in-depthScottish National Party
    SNP accused of ‘moving the goalposts’ over independence campaign funds

    Critics say Scotland’s ruling party needs to explain what happened to £740,000 raised to fight a second referendum

  • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Sturgeon admits SNP crisis is her ‘worst nightmare’

    Former party treasurer Colin Beattie says he did not know about purchase of luxury motorhome

    Nicola Sturgeon speaks to media
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    SNP treasurer ‘stepping back’ amid probe into party finances

    Scottish deputy first minister Shona Robison says organisation has to ‘get our house in order’

    Colin Beattie
  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    SNP treasurer Colin Beattie arrested as part of party finances probe

    Latest move by Police Scotland overshadows keynote speech by new first minister

    Colin Beattie, SNP treasurer
  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Scottish National party’s auditors quit amid police probe

    Johnston Carmichael resigned before arrest of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell

  • Thursday, 6 April, 2023
    Former Scottish minister queries Sturgeon’s knowledge of police probe

    She would have known ‘something was brewing’, ex-SNP cabinet secretary says

    Nicola Sturgeon during a press conference in February when she announced she would stand down as Scotland’s first minister
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Nicola Sturgeon’s husband arrested in probe into SNP finances

    Peter Murrell resigned as chief executive of the party last month after membership drop was revealed

    Nicola Sturgeon with husband Peter Murrell in 2019
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    News in-depthScottish National Party
    Scotland’s new first minister dealt early blow by arrest of Sturgeon’s husband

    Humza Yousaf’s SNP is contending with an inquiry into its finances that could have far-reaching implications

    Montage of Humza Yousaf, Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon
  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    Humza Yousaf should beware the SNP’s new infighting habit

    The loyalty and discipline the party was famed for has broken down of late

    Illustration of a spanner with the hole shaped like Scotland
  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    News in-depthScotland
    Nicola Sturgeon leaves behind ‘mixed’ legacy for Scotland and SNP

    One of the most effective politicians of her generation, her record nonetheless fell short of her rhetoric, say critics

    Nicola Sturgeon is accused of  overpromising and underdelivering
  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Sturgeon admits SNP leadership election has been ‘difficult’

    Scotland’s first minister insists her party will emerge stronger from divisive contest

    Nicola Sturgeon
  • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    SNP’s president admits Scotland’s ruling party in ‘tremendous mess’

    Divisions and complaints about handling of leadership election have wrecked vaunted discipline

    SNP chief executive Peter Murrell
  • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    Nicola Sturgeon’s husband quits as SNP chief executive

    Resignation is blow to party establishment after admission membership numbers were overstated

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    UK politics
    UK government set to thwart Scottish plan for recycling scheme

    Sunak’s administration is preparing for another constitutional clash with Edinburgh

    Glass bottles in a recycling bin in Edinburgh
  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    News in-depthScottish National Party
    Questions over SNP finances cast shadow over leadership contest

    Fallout from independence fundraising drive deepens concerns about grip of Sturgeon and her chief executive husband

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    Scottish National Party
    SNP leadership candidates clash in heated televised debate

    Hostile tone suggests ruling party could struggle to reunite after Nicola Sturgeon’s departure

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