John Swinney: “[It is important that] essential food items, and I stress essential food items, remain affordable to members of the…”

I can announce today that we will fund the community groups, the people who are the very best of us, who are doing the hard yards to build bridges and break down barriers.

The Prime Minister is very welcome in Scotland and I’ll be interested to hear what he’s got to say.

Make no mistake – if we had lost the election this year, if we were out of power – then the independence cause would have been set back decades.

I’m all for the Scottish Parliament having as many powers as it possibly can do, and I’ll work constructively to make sure we bring all those powers to Scotland.