John Swinney: “I congratulate Andy Burnham on his appointment as Prime Minister.”

My new Programme for Government sets out an ambitious agenda for post-school learning and development – from protecting free university tuition, expanding apprenticeships and delivering a new national skills plan, to supporting university…

Scotland is ready. The Scottish people are ready. It is time the UK government delivered.

I’ll maintain the no compulsory redundancy commitment.

We are working to try to ensure the proposals we bring forward are strong and robust and they can deliver the assistance we want to see in place.