HOLYROOD'S "Lunchgate" row escalated today after the SNP admitted it auctioned a total of six events at the Scottish Parliament to raise money for party funds.

Alex Salmond has unveiled the timetable for a referendum on Scottish independence in 2010 at the unveiling of the Scottish national party's (SNP) legislative agenda in Holyrood.

Scots will not vote in an independence referendum before next May's Holyrood elections because the minority Scottish National party government in Edinburgh cannot pass the necessary bill

Opposition parties at Holyrood unite to reject SNP plans for a referendum Alex Salmond's flagship bill to stage an historic referendum on independence for Scotland is now "dead in the water", opposition leaders said this evening, after they won a key vote against the proposed bill. The Scottish Tory leader, Annabel Goldie, said the Scottish National party had been "comprehensively mauled" aft...

Alex Salmond’s SNP have a political mandate to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence. With an unprecedented majority in the Scottish Parliament and a manifesto pledge, the question is not if we have to confront this issue, but how. Leaving aside arguments about the Scottish Parliament’s legal authority to legislate on an independence referendum (this

ALEX Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon were wrong to auction lunches at the Holyrood restaurant for party funds, Scottish Parliament authorities suggested last night.

I was watching Will Hutton's Dispatches programme on bank failures last night, and it really emphasised the point that it is impossible to generalise about hedge funds, much as many of us lefties like to. Bear Stearns was floored by its hedge funds' exposure to CDOs, as part of a big punt on subprime. Yet at the same time (and subsequently) there were hedge funds profiting from a wholly ...

The Scottish government is to press ahead with a bill to hold a referendum on independence next year – even though the minority Scottish National party appears to have little chance of getting it through the devolved parliament at Holyrood

The BBC reports that Holyrood has rejected the SNP’s referendum plans. It’s not a vote of no confidence, yet, but it’s a sure sign of a unionist coalition against the minority Scottish Government. The motion was as follows: That the Parliament notes that SNP manifesto promises have been broken on a wide range of issues including

The Scottish government devises a new plan to try to prevent an independence referendum being killed off at Holyrood.