Nicola Sturgeon's decision to stand down as an MSP was obvious but it still has the capacity to startle, says BBC Scotland ...

The table below shows how many of these represent different political parties. Every four or five years, voters in Scotland elect the 129 MSPs who representthem in the Scottish Parliament.

The ex-SNP leader said she is “proud” to have been the first woman in the top job in Scottish politics, but as she announced ...

The politician says she will step down after 27 years as an MSP, including more than eight as first minister of Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon has announced she will not stand for re-election to the Scottish Parliament at next year’s elections.

All of us care about Scotland’s future, and that’s why we want people in Scotland to see tackling child poverty as everybody’s business – as a long-term investment in our future success as a nation.

We asked the city’s political parties what they would do to help ... “The City Region is clearly of crucial importance to Scotland’s economy, a vital motor of our shared prosperity which ...

Scotland’s First Minister has accused Nigel Farage of being “an accomplice to the Russian agenda” as he unveiled plans for a summit to try and “lock out” Reform UK from Holyrood ...

Reform UK are “counting their chickens” ahead of the election in Scotland next year, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch ...

Scotland’s main political parties have been wildly out-of-step with public opinion on gender issue for years. Sturgeon, of course, angrily rejected the concerns of feminist campaigners who ...

She also said she did not go public with her ADHD diagnosis because she feared some at Westminster would use it against her.

The first minister has called for politicians to unite against the far right in Scotland. In a press conference at his official residence Bute House, John Swinney said it was time to "draw a line in ...