- 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...

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.

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

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.

It's been a momentous year for the SNP and Scotland.I won't list all the achievements of the SNP Government here. The list is just too long... ;o)Plus, Alex Salmond covers it all well:http://www.snp.org/node/13750I'm heading out tomorrow morning for a veritable whistle-stop tour of the constituency I'm standing in, where I will be joining SNP members in handing out our new 'Vision' leaflets to loc...

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...