Britain's senior mandarins are freezing Alex Salmond's top civil servant out of high level talks about Scottish independence.

Alex Salmond has been accused of indulging in an "embarrassing" and offensive tantrum after comparing a BBC chief who prevented him appearing on a sports programme to a Nazi bureaucrat

First Minister Alex Salmond and Scottish Secretary Michael Moore are to hold independence referendum talks in Edinburgh on 13 February.

A very useful contribution from Lord Ashcroft this morning, in the form of a poll he’s commissioned on Scottish independence. What sets Ashcroft’s poll apart from previous surveys is that he asks three different questions to three different sets of around 1,000 Scots.   The first is the question Alex Salmond wants on the ballot paper at the referendum: ‘Do you agree that Sco...

In wake of Fred Goodwin, Alex Salmond suggests other bankers involved in financial crisis and convicted peers should lose titles.

First Minister Alex Salmond tells BBC Scotland he regretted his previous support for the former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin.

The removal of Fred Goodwin’s knighthood serves the coalition’s political purposes. It shows them being tough on a bad banker and reminds everyone that these problems happened on the last government’s watch and that Alex Salmond was cheering on RBS’s bid for ABN Amro. There are even some in government who are up for a fight over clawing back part of his pension or past bonu...

It looks like Fraser was right to question Vision Critical’s recent Scottish independence poll. That poll surveyed just 180 Scots and found 51 per cent saying they would vote ‘Yes’ to Alex Salmond’s referendum question – ‘Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?’ – and just 39 per cent saying ‘No’. Today, I...

‘A clear majority of people in Scotland now back independence, according to an exclusive poll for the Sunday Express. Using Alex Salmond’s preferred referendum question, the Vision Critical survey found 51 per cent would vote ‘yes’ with 39 per cent against. If such a dramatic result were repeated in the autumn of 2014, the First Minister would have an absolute mandate to ne...

Michelle Mone, the Ultimo lingerie tycoon, has said she will "have no choice" but to move her home and business to England if Alex Salmond's wins Scottish independence.