Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer and John Swinney need to try to persuade Donald Trump not to damage trade between Scotland and the US (Picture: Rebecca Noble)

Why Swinney and Starmer must work together to influence Trump Scotsman comment

Keir and Victoria Starmer on the steps of 10 Downing Street the day after July's general election. How times have changed (Picture: Leon Neal)

Why it's clear Keir Starmer is preparing rerun of Tory austerity Stephen Gethins

Katie Allan and William Brown, also known as William Lindsay

Call for prisons to be prosecuted after young people's deaths

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced plans to raise a windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas firms

BP job losses 'proof SNP and Labour turning backs on oil and industry'

Headlight glare is a cause of concern for many drivers (Picture: Tim Ockenden/PA Wire)

Readers' Letters: Modern headlights are a glaring safety risk

In a speech at University College London this week, Keir Starmer set out his plan to us AI to drive economic growth and improve public services (Picture: Henry Nicholls/WPA pool)

Why Labour faces war with left-leaning writers over threat posed by AI John McLellan

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Exclusive Anas Sarwar admits UK Labour denting his Bute House ambitions

Grangemouth staff face an anxious wait over its future

Labour MP brands Starmer response over Grangemouth 'underwhelming'

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons

PMQs: Badenoch can't pick a topic as Keir Starmer gets away with it

Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes

Exclusive Rachel Reeves does not have a mandate for austerity, says Forbes

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has defended her handling of the economy

Analysis Why Rachel Reeves is under threat, and what she can do to stop it

First Minister John Swinney has enjoyed a poll resurgence

John Swinney is 'uniting Scots', says SNP as lead grows over Labour

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham (Photo: John Devlin).

Exclusive Labour's Anas Sarwar to harness Andy Burnham to 'do devolution better'

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss attends the 'Popular Conservatives' conference, presumably unaware of the irony

Liz Truss legal letter is tone deaf and beyond embarrassing Alexander Brown

UK government minister Jess Phillips, centre, has been the subject of threats and abuse following comments by Elon Musk. Picture: Gareth Fuller - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Kemi Badenoch’s 'unforgivable' use of rape scandal for political gain

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss attends the 'Popular Conservatives' conference on 6 February 2024 in London (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Liz Truss makes legal threat to the PM - what you need to know

The claims made about Keir Starmer by Elon Musk, seen with Donald Trump, are ridiculous and unfounded (Picture: Brandon Bell)

UK politicians must shun Musk's QAnon-style attack on Starmer Scotsman comment

Keir Starmer has said he wants a reset of EU-UK relations (Picture: Benjamin Cremel/pool)

Why Keir Starmer will be pushover in talks about UK-EU 'reset' Brian Monteith

Sir Keir Starmer (left) has fired a broadside in the wake of comments made by X owner Elon Musk

'Lies and misinformation': Sir Keir Starmer hits back at Elon Musk

First Minister John Swinney (left) wants Keir Starmer and his UK Cabinet to bin National Insurance changes that would hurt charities (Picture: Andy Buchanan - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Starmer and Reeves must reverse decision on charities and NI

Why Sarwar must distance himself from SNP and Sir Keir Starmer Euan McColm

Jess Phillips and Elon Musk

Musk’s attacks on Phillips a ‘disgraceful smear’, Streeting says

Elon Musk has called for the racist Tommy Robinson to be released from prison

Tories should beware following Elon Musk’s lead Alexander Brown

Tractors are lined up outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, during a protest by farmers over the changes to inheritance tax

Insight: Why inheritance tax is just tip of iceberg for Scots farmers

Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with First Minister John Swinney during the first Council of Nations and Regions, at Queen Elizabeth House in Edinburgh. Picture: Andy Buchanan-WPA Pool/Getty Images

Analysis How Scotland's two governments' new-found co-operation could turn sour

Decades ago Scottish children proved accomplished pupils, says reader. Here Miss Williams is seen teaching in the smallest school in Britain, in Tweedsmuir. Nine-year-old Bobby and ten-year-old sister Margaret Smith make up the class with eight-year-old Neill McKellar (Picture: Martin/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Here's what's gone wrong with Scottish schools

Labour has made political mistakes but there is no hiding the need for tough choices about public spending and taxation (Picture: Chris Eades/WPA pool)

Why Labour could be the last hurrah for liberal democracy in UK Ian Johnston

MPs predict a tense year

Analysis The year of 'reckoning': Why 2025 will make or break for Starmer, SNP

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar promised a new direction for Scotland

Scottish leaders' New Year messages and their promises for 2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves flanked by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Labour already out of ideas on economy

Sir Keir Starmer and John Swinney (Picture: Andy Buchanan/WPA pool)

Poll: SNP to reclaim most seats lost to Labour at July election

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pays tribute to his brother Nick, who has died at the age of 60.

Tributes paid to Keir Starmer's brother Nick, who died on Boxing Day

Tony Blair was cautious during the 1997 general election campaign, but brought in several big ticket reforms within months of winning power (Picture: Tom Stoddart Archive/Hulton Archive)

Comparing Starmer to Blair reveals PM's shocking lack of ideas Alistair Carmichael

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon leaves the UK Covid-19 Inquiry hearing, after giving evidence, at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre

Sturgeon's Covid tears, Kate's altered image and a fugitive monkey

Scrooge has become a byword for meanness, but Keir Starmer is actually worse (Picture: MJ Kim)

Starmer is not Scrooge. He's a far worse Christmas film character Brian Monteith

Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Scottish job loss warning as economy 'headed for worst of all worlds'

Liz Kendall in a regrettable photo-op

Waspi women decision shows Labour offered hope without a plan Alexander Brown

Sue Gray, the civil servant who investigated Partygate and went on to become Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff, who has been made a life peer

Partygate investigator Sue Gray among 30 new Labour peers

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appearing before the Liaison Committee at the Houses of Parliamen

Starmer says he would not change a thing despite hard start in power

Former first minister Humza Yousaf at Bute House in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

Readers' Letters: Yousaf has an exaggerated sense of his own importance

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with President Xi Jinping of China during a bilateral meeting in November (Picture: Stefan Rousseau)

UK must adopt robust stance towards China amid spying allegations Martyn McLaughlin

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Sarwar creates Labour rift with Starmer over Waspi betrayal
Anas Sarwar has created a rift between Scottish Labour and his party colleagues at Westminster after criticising a refusal to offer compensation to Waspi women.

The recent Scottish Budget was greeted with disappointment by Scotland's hospitality industry

Readers' Letters: Scottish Government must back hospitality industry

David Cameron and Xi Jinping have a pint in a pub near Chequers in 2015 (Picture: Andy Rain/pool)

Why Starmer must take 'very clear threat' posed by China seriously Scotsman comment

Keir Starmer needs to try to remember why he wanted to become Prime Minister (Picture: Henry Nicholls/WPA pool)

Why Keir Starmer needs to learn from Alex Salmond's first government Stephen Gethins

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner want to see 1.5 million new homes built in the UK over the next five years (Picture: Chris Radburn - Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don't call us Nimbys, we're fighting for Scotland

Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch

Starmer hits back at Badenoch’s claim sandwiches ‘not real food’

Keir Starmer's plans to bulldoze through housing and infrastructure construction ─ including the relentless march of wind turbines ─ may not go down well with voters (Picture: Chris Radburn)

Labour's disastrous start is setting up a 2029 independence showdown John McLellan

The minister suggested a mayor would be good for Glasgow

Mayor for Glasgow branded a 'good idea' by senior UK Labour minister

An armed woman flashes the V for victory sign as Syrian Kurds celebrate the fall of capital Damascus to anti-government fighters, in the city of Qamishli

Starmer: 'No decision pending' on banned status of Syrian rebel group

PR expert Jack Hope specialises in the built environment

Does the good news on housebuilding stand up?

Things could yet get worse for Labour and Anas Sarwar as culture questioned Scotsman leader comment

First Minister John Swinney at Bute House in Edinburgh. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

John Swinney issues 'albatross' ultimatum to Labour over Scottish Budget

Keir Starmer has held yet another reset

Starmer's 'weak' reset a reminder Labour's majority is on shaky ground Alexander Brown

SNP have craftily thrown Anas Sarwar a hand grenade with Scottish Budget Euan McColm

Reader says £100 extra towards pensioners' fuel bills would be wiped out by Council Tax increase (Picture: Adobe)

Readers’ Letters: Forget £100 for fuel, here's how to help seniors this winter

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries