SNP leader and Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has opened his party's conference, urging Scots to be part of the "independence generation".

Ahead of this week's SNP conference, Alan Cochrane argues that Alex Salmond is a busted flush.

- 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...

Alex Salmond will today launch a major election campaign aimed at convincing voters the SNP are not separatists determined to rip Scotland out of the United Kingdom.

Alex Salmond has emailed SNP members about his decision to shelve his plans for an independence referendum in a bid to pre-empt any dissent from the party's rank and file.

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.

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

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

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...