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The public would prefer existing council leaders rather than newly elected metro mayors to take a lead on future county devolution deals, research by the

Getting humiliated on Twitter might seem like a weird way for the Conservatives to win an election, but there may be a method to this madness, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Humza Yousaf pictured on his way to Bute House last week to be named the new Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. NOW we have a new Government and Health Secretary it is timely that Professor David Kerr reminds us of his radical plan for the Scottish NHS of 15 years ago ("Progress has not come far enough, says NHS reforms academic", The Herald, May 24). Furthermore when the NHS absorbs almost 45 per cent of the Government’s budget one might consider that in Scotland we have a hea...

Poll: Pro-Indy tactical vote for Greens cost SNP an overal majority TACTICAL voting for the Scottish Greens on the Holyrood list cost the SNP an overall majority, and may have made independence less likely, a new survey has suggested. Pollsters found around half of those who voted Green on the list did so wanting to elect as many pro-independence MSPs as possible, rather than actively supporting the party. However the result was to leave the SNP one short of a majority, making it eas...

Nearly six out of 10 Scots think they do not have enough information to make an informed choice on independence, a poll has suggested. It comes as former Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the Scottish National Party to “open the books” and hold public hearings in Holyrood and Westminster on the effects of leaving the UK. Overall, fewer than a third of poll respondents felt confident about knowing the effect of independence on issues including the English border, Scotland’s security ar...