Shocking crimes, royal illness and Labour’s landslide: The eight big moments that defined 2024 for Britain
Winds of change howled across Britain in a year when a Labour election victory ended 14 years of Tory rule
Humza Yousaf
Humza Yousaf tried to appear strong, but ended up looking weak
Scotland’s outgoing first minister, who announced on Monday he would quit, lacked political guile, his rivals say
Humza Yousaf to resign as Scotland’s first minister
SNP leader’s decision comes ahead of two no-confidence votes after he ended power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens
Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf will try to repair rift with Greens to save his job
Angry Scottish Greens threatening to back no-confidence motion in the SNP leader after he ended governing partnership with Green Party
Scotland’s hate crime law fiasco offers Ireland a playbook in how not to do it
There was a sense they were making it up as they went along. The same can’t happen here
SNP leader looks to Republic in bid to free Scotland from Britain’s flagging economy
Humza Yousaf suggests an independent Scotland could be as much a competitor as potential partner for the Republic
Humza Yousaf ‘open’ to inquiry into police failings in case of serial rapist and killer
Iain Packer given 36-year sentence for murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005
Humza Yousaf faces questions over his political judgment in ministerial iPad affair
Scotland’s health minister Michael Matheson suddenly quit this week, three months after it emerged an £11,000 holiday roaming charge had been racked up on his taxpayer-funded iPad
Scottish government loses legal challenge over gender identity reform
Holyrood fails in attempt to get London’s veto struck down
Humza Yousaf on Gaza, Scottish independence and talking to Labour about the next government
The SNP leader and Scotland’s first minister says he has chosen sides in the Gaza war and that side is ‘humanity’
Humza Yousaf suggests Ireland and Scotland co-operate on housing and energy
Scotland’s first minister and Nicola Sturgeon’s successor wants president Michael D Higgins to visit
Devolved government in North may be restored within next few weeks, O’Neill believes
Sinn Féin vice-president and leader in Stormont is set to become North’s first nationalist First Minister when assembly returns
Humza Yousaf calls for international refugee scheme for Gaza
Scotland’s first minister condemns Hamas as ‘terrorists’ in his maiden SNP party conference speech
Sturgeon makes surprise appearance at Yousaf’s first SNP conference as leader
Scotland’s former first minister brushes off suggestion that she was upstaging Humza Yousaf
SNP to seek fresh independence vote if it wins at least 29 Westminster seats
Party members agree new independence strategy in Aberdeen as it tries to revive bid to break away from the UK
‘Never say never’: Her bid to replace Nicola Sturgeon failed but Kate Forbes may yet get another shot
Forbes has retreated to the Highlands for now having ‘dodged a bullet’ with the SNP currently in crisis
Independent Scotland would ‘base citizenship on Irish model’
Humza Yousaf’s plan would allow those born outside the country to be entitled to citizenship if one parent is a Scottish citizen
Yousaf may need to be ruthless as crisis roils the SNP
Colin Beattie “steps back” as SNP treasurer after his arrest, but events are slipping beyond the party’s control
Yousaf’s recent promise for ‘continuity’ after Sturgeon already seems unwise
Detention of former Scottish National Party chief executive, Peter Murrell, opens up a range of problems for the new first minister
Humza Yousaf sworn in as Scotland’s first minister ahead of appointing Cabinet
Former health secretary takes over from Nicola Sturgeon after winning leadership election
Teenager jailed for 27 years for rape and murder of six-year-old
Alesha MacPhail was taken from her bed in grandparents’ home on Scottish island
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