When the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, recently told a group of MPs that devolution in Scotland has been a “disaster” he raised an interesting question. Has handing greater powers to the Scottish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A memo recorded Sir Keir Starmer telling ministers to be prepared to make decisions even if it was against the wishes of a UK ...

When the Scottish parliament was established in 1999, it was intended to represent the best of modern governance. The ...

You may have noticed that there's lots in the news lately about the political issue of devolution. But what is devolution, and why is everyone talking about it right now? Here's everything you need to ...

The commitment comes as the Scottish Affairs Committee publishes the Government’s response to its report, Defence in Scotland: Military Landscape. In its report, the Committee argued that while ...

Chris Baur, who has died aged 83, was an accomplished and well-regarded figure in business and political journalism. In the mid-1970s he was ...

Had the Scots voted for independence in September’s referendum and Scotland had become a European Union member state, the cross-border legislation would have kicked in and defined benefit schemes with ...

Alex de Ruyter, director of the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University and David Hearne, researcher at the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University, on the prime ...

Both Reform and the Scottish Greens have outlandish ideas, from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Whatever happens, I ...

The IFS said the party’s tax plans were ‘not credible’.