the SNP

We’ve selected five brand new candidates to help protect Scotland from the dangers of an unopposed Tory government at Westminster. Meet your new SNP candidates.

Now more than ever, it is vital that Scotland has strong voices standing up for Scotland in Westminster.

Here are just some of the policies the Lib Dems helped the Tories introduce.

SNP MPs at Westminster have been a strong voice for the sector, calling for more action to support investment and protect jobs.

A vote for the SNP on 8 June will help send the Tories a strong message – hands off Scotland’s NHS. Here’s what you need to know.

Ten years ago, when people put their faith in the SNP, nobody could have predicted the depths of the recession that lay ahead – nor the harshness of Tory austerity. But in the face of those challenges, we’ve worked tirelessly to deliver on our pledges to make Scotland stronger, fairer, healthier, greener and smarter.

The SNP has won the Scottish council elections. Across Scotland, the SNP won more councillors and more votes than any other party.

Your team of SNP MPs have been a strong voice for Scotland, standing against Tory cuts.

With Scotland’s young people being denied a say in June’s General Election, it’s even more important for them to make their voice heard. Here’s why young people should vote SNP on Thursday.

We’ve already seen the damage the Tories can do, first with no majority and then with a small majority. Now with the launch of the Tory party manifesto, it is clearer than ever what a emboldened, out-of-control Tory government would mean.

This Thursday, voters across Scotland will go to the polls to decide who runs their local council for the next 5 years.

Since her announcement that she was calling a snap election, the Prime Minister seems to have done her very best to avoid any serious scrutiny.

No government should be making its own citizens destitute and that is exactly what this Tory Government is doing. Disadvantaged people and those on low incomes in Scotland must be protected, not punished.

Yesterday, in the Scottish Parliament, I ruled out the use of private companies in assessing people for the benefits that will be delivered under Scotland’s new social security system.

For the last two years, the SNP has been the only strong and effective opposition of any kind at Westminster to the Conservatives. And only the SNP will stand up for Scotland in the face of the bigger Tory majority which this election threatens.

This year marks seven years of Tory government – despite people in Scotland rejecting the Tories at every single General Election for over sixty years.

Today Nicola Sturgeon launched the SNP’s manifesto for the 4 May council elections in Edinburgh.

The SNP in this election will, as we always do, stand up for Scotland.

A vote for the SNP is a vote to protect Scotland’s interests. Only the SNP stands between Scotland and an increasingly hard-line Tory government.

This announcement is one of the most extraordinary u-turns in recent political history, and it shows that Theresa May is once again putting the interests of her party ahead of those of the country.

The last few days have exposed the full horror of the rape clause, the wider issues around the cap on child tax credits and the complicity of Scottish Tories in the utterly immoral policies of their Westminster colleagues.

From support for the Rape Clause to cuts amounting to billions to Scotland’s budget by Westminster Tories, here’s just some of what Ruth Davidson would rather you didn’t know about her party.

This week we learned that unemployment is going down, more children from deprived backgrounds are going to university and the new M8 will open this month. Here’s the good news you might have missed.

On May 4, vote SNP to give our young people the very best chance of success in life. Here’s just some of what SNP councils will deliver.

The UK government has now introduced its callous rape clause policy. Get the facts here.

The SNP response to the 50 European politicians who backed Scotland’s place in Europe.

The priority of the SNP Scottish Government is to build a strong, vibrant and diverse economy that is open to all.

Promoting Scotland overseas is a central part of being First Minister and as I’ve travelled across the US this week it’s clear to me there’s a big appetite for all that Scotland has to offer.