John Healey

John Healey’s first Budget will be a key indication of the Burnham premiership’s direction (Picture: Betty Laura Zapata/PA Wire)

John Healey needs to find some carrots for housing sector

Kemi Badenoch gave a speech in central London on Tuesday

Analysis Badenoch presents Tories as tax-cutting alternative ahead of UK Budget

Adrian Murphy, CEO of Murphy Wealth

Chancellor right to rule out changes to capital gains tax

Chancellor John Healey needs to retain the confidence of the markets, like his predecessor Rachel Reeves. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/pool

How Chancellor John Healey can avoid becoming the Labour Liz Truss Scotsman comment

Nearly 400 jobs are to be lost in Grangemouth as chemicals producer Syngenta prepares to cease operations in the town (Picture Michael Gillen)

Readers Letters: Syngenta shutdown shows Scottish government bad for business

Chancellor John Healey needs to deliver on his promise of 'fiscal discipline' in his Budget next month (Picture: Ian Forsyth)

SNP should learn from Chancellor's 'moral duty' to cut benefits Scotsman comment

John Healey speaking at Labour Party conference

Analysis John Healey's relaxed conference speech was engaging but lacked detail

The Petroineos refinery at Grangemouth has now closed - but funding promises for its future must be honoured, writes Barrie Cunning

Scotland 2050 calls for cross-party summit on Grangemouth

Jubilant Glasgow University graduates - but are too many young people going to university (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' letters: Higher education needs a major rethink

We must pay no heed to latest Russian threats against UK Alan Young

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Readers' letters: We need to tackle rise in speeding offences

Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham: I will call out Donald Trump

Anas Sarwar

Analysis 'Bewildering' moment in Scottish Labour as Sarwar's bombshell dropped

First Minister John Swinney

Swinney urged to match Burnham's tax cut for pubs, clubs and venues

John Healey is prepared to be a team player, but not at the expense of his most strongly held beliefs (Picture: Henry Nicholls)

John Healey could be most consequential Chancellor since Gordon Brown Alistair Carmichael

Prime minister Andy Burnham must give Scottish business ‘breathing space’ and not tax his way to growth, a leading figure in the finance sector has warned (Picture: Dan Kitwood)

Exclusive Burnham must not tax his way to growth, warns Scots finance leader

An artist's impression of the Cato data centre (Picture: Fife Council planning portal)

Readers’ letters: Piecemeal planning is not good enough for giant data centres

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham announces £850m VAT cut on energy bills

Andy Burnham waves with his wife Marie-France van Heel

Burnham's ruthless purge of cabinet as Starmer allies shown the door

Andy Burnham's victory rally at Ashton Town FC after being elected as Makerfield MP

Who will be in Andy Burnham's cabinet?

Former Armed Forces minister Al Carns, pictured at RFA Lyme Bay in Gibraltar.

Explainer Al Carns: The Scottish commando looking to challenge Andy Burnham

Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party Russell Findlay speaks during an inquiry into SNP finances at the Scottish Parliament Building on 10 June 2026 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Scotsman Letters: Why didn't Opposition look into Murrell plea delay?

Military helicopters at the Russian shadow fleet oil tanker that was boarded by Royal Marine Commandos on Sunday

Starmer needs to show his pledges on defence are more than words Scotsman comment

Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade set up and fly military drones after jumping from a transport aircraft onto Salisbury Plain at Copehill Down training facility earlier this year (Picture: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Increasing defence spending is rational, not hysterical

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and former defence secretary John Healey with a UK Typhoon fighter jet at a military base in Ankara, Turkey, in October 2025.

Scotland on the 'frontline', as Russian tanker seized

Newly appointed Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis

Readers' Letters: UK must resist demands for increased ‘defence’ spending

Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer's 'civil war' impacting on Scots' cost-of-living crisis

John Healey. Picture: PA

If billions more goes on defence, where will the money come from? Brian Wilson

John Healey quit as defence secretary followed by Al Carns as armed forces minister and Pamela Nash as PPS

Sarwar calls on Starmer to act on defence spending after resignations

Why defence secretary quitting is a huge red flag Alan Young

John Healey has resigned as Defence Secretary

Defence Secretary John Healey attacks Starmer on spending as he quits

The Scottish Tories' solution to overcrowding in prisons is proving controversial

Readers' Letters: Scots Tories' plan to send prisoners overseas doomed to fail

First Minister John Swinney

Swinney 'very concerned' on Russian threat and UK's ability to respond

Navantia UK took over the Methil shipyard in January last year (Pic: Submitted)

Exclusive MoD urged to award Faslane contract to Scottish shipyard

An American C-17 seen at Prestwick Airport in 2025 (Picture: John Devlin)

Row as Swinney admits he cannot ban US jets from Prestwick Airport

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a community centre in London

PM: UK will 'get ahead' of price rises driven by Middle East conflict

HMS Duncan is set to head to Cyprus.

HMS Duncan: Everything we know about the Clyde-built Destroyer

A plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran on Monday

Keir Starmer hits back at Donald Trump in row over Iran strikes

People take part in a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy in central London, in support of the US and Israeli strikes on Iran

Does the UK government back US strikes against Iranian regime or not? Scotsman comment

The Marinera tanker is in Scottish waters

Scotland has ‘glaring weaknesses’ in maritime defences, warns Swinney

A submarine is manoeuvred at His Majesty's Naval Base Clyde in Faslane

SNP accused of 'jeopardising national security' as defence row erupts

HMS Artful an Astute-class nuclear-powered fleet submarine at His Majesty's Naval Base Clyde

UK to build up to 12 new attack submarines and spend £15bn on warheads

The naming ceremony for HMS Glasgow, at the BAE Systems shipyard in Scotstoun, Glasgow, where the Princess of Wales, Sponsor of HMS Glasgow, gave her blessing to the Royal Navy's newest warship last month

UK Government accuses SNP of 'student politics' over defence funding

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive for their bilateral talks in Kyiv in January. Picture: Carl Court/PA Wire

David Lammy: Russians have no ‘appetite’ for peace in Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Picture: Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP

UK faces 'new era of threat', as US and Russia negotiate

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have held talks over ending the war in Ukraine

Trump vows to work 'very closely' with Putin to end war in Ukraine

HMS Somerset flanking Russian ship Yantar near UK waters. Picture: Royal Navy/PA Wire

Vladimir Putin spy ship confronted by Royal Navy in North Sea

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