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John Swinney has taken control of the finance brief while Kate Forbes is on maternity leave

John Swinney: I can’t promise to insulate Scotland from UK's ‘fiscal recklessness’
Markets spiralled in September after Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced plans the Government hoped would drive economic growth.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaking to the media. Photograph: PA

ANALYSIS Is the Scottish media ready for an independence referendum?

Housing associations could be affected by the legislation

MSPs to hear evidence on Scottish Government's Rent Freeze Bill

Constitution Secretary Angus Robertson will head to France

Angus Robertson heads to Paris to highlight Scotland and France's 'Auld Alliance'

King Charles at the Palace of Holyroodhouse

Call for greater transparency over monarch's role in vetting legislation

Shona Robison said UK Government policy

UK Government policy 'undermining' Scotland's cost-of-living support, report shows

Douglas Ross speaking at the Tory conference in Birmingham

'Charlatan' Douglas Ross says Chancellor 'right' to U-turn on tax cuts

Maggie Chapman (left) and Alison Thewliss (right) have slammed the Chancellor's major U-turn

'He has to go': Scottish Greens and SNP slam Chancellor's dramatic U-turn

Douglas Ross called for the Scottish Government to mirror tax cuts for the rich, a policy the UK Government has since U-turned on

THE JOUKER Seven tweets on tax cuts the Scottish Tories will wish they'd deleted

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (right) and his UK party boss Keir Starmer

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: SNP must heed the lessons of Labour's spectacular fall from grace

Owners of any Airbnb-style, short-term let must possess a licence by April 1 of next year

Licensing scheme aimed at Airbnb-style short-term lets opens in Scotland

Douglas Ross facing 'at least' two Scottish Tory leadership challenges

Douglas Ross facing 'at least' two Scottish Tory leadership challenges

Nicola Sturgeon after addressing a Climate Action Week National School Assembly at St Albert's Primary School in Glasgow

Nicola Sturgeon praises pupils' work on climate change in visit to Glasgow school

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was accused of being angry by a Tory MP

THE JOUKER Scottish Tory MP torn apart after criticising Nicola Sturgeon for being 'angry'

Nicola Sturgeon and Douglas Ross appearing at FMQs, where the two clashed over ferries, again

SKETCH Kirsty Strickland: What energy crisis? It's Groundhog Day for ferries at FMQs

Nicola Sturgeon and Douglas Ross clashed over the awarding of a ferry-building contract to Ferguson Marine at FMQs

FMQs Nicola Sturgeon says Douglas Ross 'making things up' in heated clash over ferries

Douglas Ross smirked and heckled as the First Minister got stuck into the Tories' tax cut policies

Douglas Ross smirks and heckles as he's told of Tory damage to UK economy

From left: Anas Sarwar, Nicola Sturgeon, and Douglas Ross all wore heart badges at FMQs

Why were Holyrood's party leaders wearing heart-shaped badges at FMQs?

There are concerns over the mini budget's risk to the NHS

Expert issues grave warning over Tory tax cut threat to devolution and Scotland's NHS

The First Minister was asked for her assessment of the UK Chancellor's mini-budget on the Scottish Government's finances

WATCH UK faces 'economic situation not seen in living memory' says First Minister

Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng has seen the pound collapse in the wake of his economic policy announcements

'What criticism?': Tory MSP claims he never heard of IMF attack on UK tax cuts

Evidence shows the Covid-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis have increased health inequalities

'Urgent' action required across Government to tackle health inequalities, say MSPs

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross during First Minister's Questions in September 2022

EXCLUSIVE Douglas Ross demands 'appalling' tax cuts that'd save Tory MSPs thousands on bills

The legislation, if passed, would introduce new measures to allow MSPs to be withdrawn from their roles

Holyrood to debate bill to unseat MSPs who don't show or break rules

The Scottish and Union flags flying at half-mast in Edinburgh in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth

THE JOUKER Queen ‘died in Scotland on purpose to help the Union’, Tory MSP says

The Health Secretary said last week's A&E waiting times were 'not acceptable'

Humza Yousaf welcomes 'immediate improvement' in A&E waiting times

The unfinished Glen Sannox CalMac ferry in the Ferguson Marine shipyard in Port Glasgow

'Concerns' shipyard given preferential treatment in ferry fiasco, John Swinney says

Nicola Sturgeon will speak to the Conveners Group on Wednesday morning

First Minister to be quizzed by MSPs over efforts to tackle cost-of-living crisis

John Swinney said the Chancellor's tax cuts will have

John Swinney: Scottish Government to 'reflect carefully' on Chancellor's tax cuts

The House of Lords is facing being ‘considered’ for abolition by the Labour Party

COMMENT Ruth Wishart: Scotland must look at how a revised second chamber would work

After Kwasi Kwarteng's announcement, there is a wider gap in tax rates between Scotland and England

Have your say on paying higher taxes in Scotland than England

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross wants to see the trickle-down economics replicated north of the Border

Douglas Ross slated as he calls on Nicola Sturgeon to replicate Tory tax cuts

Douglas Ross quizzed Nicola Sturgeon on the recent A&E figures

FMQs Sketch FMQs Sketch: A&E and Douglas Ross's remarkable impression of an eight-year-old girl

Liz Truss is reportedly be planning to issue 130 new oil and gas licenses

We can't stop Truss's oil and gas bonanza plans without independence, minister says

Business and Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg's energy scheme 'inadequate' without proper reform, says deputy FM

Police guard the hearse carrying the Queen's coffin along the Royal Mile, Edinburgh

Police to review at least one incident of 'heavy-handed policing' during anti-monarchy protests

Jim Murphy claims to have never met Craig Paterson

New Scottish Tory staffer SACKED before taking up post over Jim Murphy claim

Stephen Kerr, former Scottish Tory chief whip, has won a big new role

Stephen Kerr secures major promotion in Scottish Tory shadow cabinet

Edward Mountain hasn't fully read up on the work of the net zero committee of which he has become the chair

WATCH Tory aristocrat MSP reveals he failed to do homework before taking on key committee role

Former Labour prime ministers Gordon Brown with Tony Blair

Our Scottish Future Gordon Brown launches new advisory board for his Unionist think tank – here's who's in

Many A&E departments are not seeing people within the target time

A&E departments struggle to hit targets in worst week on record, figures show

Scottish Parliament business is set to resume

Business to resume in Holyrood with further tributes to the Queen

The Scottish and Westminster parliaments were put on pause while the mourning period for the Queen was in place

EXPLAINED What's happening in politics this week as MPs and MSPs return?

Students from St Brendans Primary School choir in Motherwell celebrate 20 years of the Youth Music Initiative. Photo: Wattie Cheung

Confusion over Scottish music funding leads to row over 'cultural vandalism'

Roz McCall is the new MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife after the resignation of Dean Lockhart

Holyrood's new Tory MSP to swear allegiance to King when parliament returns

Angus Robertson Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament. Photograph taken June 2022.

Angus Robertson: Future of monarchy in Scotland not a huge question

Scottish politicians from a number of parties have raised concerns over the arrests of anti-monarchy protesters in Edinburgh

Updated 'Deeply concerning': Cross-party fears over arrests of anti-monarchy protesters

Nicola Sturgeon was at Edinburgh Airport to welcome the new King

Nicola Sturgeon reveals 'tense' experience during visit to Balmoral

Members of the public near Mercat Cross ahead of the procession of Queen Elizabeth's coffin from the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral

Silence as Queen's coffin procession travels up Royal Mile

King Charles will be present during a motion to pay tribute to the Queen

King Charles' first visit to Scottish Parliament as monarch announced

The flags at half mast outside the Scottish Parliament. Photo: Laura Pollock

BEHIND THE SCENES Inside Holyrood: How history unfolded when the Queen died

SNP MP Steven Bonnar, left, crossed his fingers while swearing in. Douglas Ross took his oath in the Scottish manner at Holyrood

EXPLAINED Why MSPs WON'T swear new oath of allegiance to King Charles - but MPs will

Westminster and Holyrood have stopped all activity after the death of the monarch

EXPLAINED What happens to politics in the aftermath of the Queen's death?

Nicola Sturgeon has looked into the possibility of using local by-laws to introduce pilot buffer zones

comment Government buffer zone bill will put an end to traumatic ‘vigils’ outside clinics