- The SNP in Alex Salmond think that Scots “didn’t mind” Thatcher’s economics. - The SNP Government has frozen council tax, cut services and slashed business rates. - The SNP appointed the Thatcherite ex RBS Chair George Mathewson. - The SNP relied on the votes of the Tories to pass their budget. - Alex Salmond appoints the Daily Mail’s Political Editor as his Special...

Despite European elections rarely predicting Westminster votes accurately the voters who flocked to Alex Salmond's SNP have the party counting the days to a general election writes Alan Cochrane.

JIM Faulds could not have been more effusive had he been taking part in an SNP political broadcast. "Alex Salmond has been absolutely magnificent, without looking for poli

SNP leader Alex Salmond says his party has a strong chance of winning Glasgow North East but has stopped short predicting victory.

The daughter of an SNP councillor caught on video firing a Kalashnikov AK47 assault rifle in Pakistan has demanded Alex Salmond sack him.

It seems that Alex Salmond has expressed a degree of support for Thatcher's economic policies. If he is positioning the SNP as a more authentically social-democratic alternative to Labour, then that seems a strange thing to say. It could also backfire, since one of the SNP leaflets in Glasgow East showed the photo of Brown with Thatcher - implying that they were anti-Thatcherite whereas Labour was...

Alex Salmond accuses his rivals of hiding the true scale of cuts as he reveals SNP plans to close the spending gap.

FIRST Minister Alex Salmond today set out the SNP's vision for a referendum on Scottish independence, saying that it is "time for the people to have their say on Scotl

FIRST Minister Alex Salmond bowed to pressure from opponents yesterday and sacked his education secretary, in one of the biggest setbacks so far for the SNP government.

ALEX Salmond has pledged to help one of the world's most vulnerable nations to fight the effects of climate change, in an address to an international audience in Copenha