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

Nicola Sturgeon wasted the unprecedented good fortune she inherited from Alex Salmond in the wake of the independence referendum in 2014 and ...

She was also the longest-serving incumbent in that post – dealing with no fewer than five different Conservative prime ...

Former SNP Westminster deputy leader Mhairi Black has said she could “maybe” join another political party in the future. Ms Black said she is still a member of the SNP, but warned she could ...

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

Damaging splits have erupted within the SNP over the party’s demands to remove Trident nuclear weapons despite the threat from Russia. The SNP’s former Westminster leader Ian Blackford called ...