Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey aren't saying, but the signals about an early election were clear to see in last week's Budget. Picture: Ian Vogler/pool

Another general election! Labour looks set to go to the polls early Brian Monteith

Andy Burnham, left, and Shabana Mahmood

Analysis Immigration retreat shows Burnham less keen on MP fight than Starmer

Alloa and Grangemouth MP Brian Leishman

Exclusive Scots Labour MP warns Andy Burnham against rejoining 'imperialist' EU

Andy Burnham

Prime minister says local journalism is vital to success of devolution

A reader has proposed an alternative use for the money paid to wind farm companies not to produce energy (Picture: John Devlin)

Readers' Letters: We need new ideas to liven up tired energy debate

Nicola Sturgeon (PA)

Nicola Sturgeon 'wants Andy Burnham to do well as Prime Minister'

How Andy Burnham put John Swinney and SNP on back foot Euan McColm

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and First Minister John Swinney shake hands ahead of a bilateral meeting at the National Economic Council in Glasgow

Burnham: I don't want to see Scotland left out of my devolution plans

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and wife Marie France Van Heel celebrate in the stands at Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium

Andy Burnham says his son is trying to get him to support Hibs

Andy Burnham on his last visit to Scotland (Jeff J Mitchell/PA)

Exclusive There's no limit to what John Swinney and I can achieve together Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham and John Swinney

Burnham tells Swinney 'put politics aside' to give regions more powers

John Healey leaves 11 Downing Street with (second left-right) Financial Secretary to the Treasury James Murray, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds, Economic Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby and Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Dan Tomlinson before delivering his first Budget to the Houses of Parliament

Analysis Healey’s standstill Budget highlights a debilitating fiscal status quo

The whisky industry has criticised the Budget

UK Budget 2026: Scotch whisky sector hails a 'disappointing blow'

SNP ministers to pass on funding to cut £100 off energy bills for those in council tax bands A-D

UK Budget 2026: Scots households to benefit from £100 energy payment

Chancellor John Healey ahead of delivering his UK Budget

Explainer What John Healey's Budget spending plans mean for Scotland and you

Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey

The Budget 2026: What time is Healey speaking at? How can I follow it?

The RBS headquarters and conference complex at Gogarburn, Edinburgh, which forms part of NatWest Group. Picture: Ian Georgeson

Taxing banks will hit growth, Scottish finance chief warns

Prime Minister Andy Burnham. PIC: Temilade Adelaja/PA

Analysis Freedom of movement confusion shows Burnham's Government lacks clarity

Here's why nothing should be off table with EU talks Alan Young

Industry bosses hope the North Sea oil and gas sector can enjoy a revival

North Sea revival risks being scuppered despite Jackdaw decision

Some supplies that will come in handy in the event of an emergency.

Be Ready: Here are 15 items you should stockpile in case of emergency

People protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero in London over the UK government's decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field. Picture: Brook Mitchell

Why Labour's Jackdaw gas field decision is not climate vandalism Scotsman comment

Labour's approval of the Jackdaw gas field is a welcome step, but the North Sea energy industry needs John Healey and Andy Burnham to take a few more. Picture: Ian Forsyth

After Jackdaw approval, Labour must now seize £50bn North Sea prize David Whitehouse

The Jackdaw gas project has been approved by the UK government

Explainer Jackdaw: what does it mean for business, you and energy prices

Andy Burnham and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh

Analysis Jackdaw approval cannot be distraction from crisis facing North Sea

Andy Burnham speaks to a student during a visit to New College Lanarkshire's Motherwell Campus ahead of a speech focusing on the forming of closer ties with the Scottish government. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell

Why SNP needs to stop hoarding power and give it to the people Jackie Baillie

The Jackdaw gas field has been given the go ahead

Jackdaw gas field set to be approved by UK Labour government

Jenny Gilruth this week condemned 'rote learning, the shallow learning that was applied in England' after pupils south of the Border scored better than Scottish ones in the Pisa tables (Picture: Paul Reid/Getty Images)

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Readers' Letters: Independence can't keep taking oxygen away from real issues

Exclusive Andy Burnham urged to open 'bigger pipeline' of oil and gas projects

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and First Minister John Swinney.

Can governments really work together? Rachel Amery

Maree Todd MSP applauds First Minister and party leader John Swinney after he delivered his keynote speech at the Scottish National Party (SNP) annual conference in Aberdeen

Analysis Swinney's Choose Scotland campaign shows indy push is treading water

John Swinney

SNP conference diary: Booze, buses and mind-blowing revelations

Readers' Letters: Neverendum is a cosy status quo for SNP politicians

Andy Burnham giving a speech in Motherwell on Friday

Analysis Andy Burnham robs SNP of ammunition by being constructive

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander during a visit to to a college in Motherwell

Burnham offers Scotland more powers in bid for deeper devolution

Andy Burnham will be giving his first major speech in Scotland (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Burnham offers to work with Swinney to push power out of Holyrood

Edinburgh University announced plans to mothball 90 courses last month

Readers' Letters: Scotland must not neglect its own literary heritage

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is due to visit Scotland on Friday – at the same time as the SNP conference is taking place (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Andy Burnham 'bounce' smaller for Labour in Scotland than rest of UK

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has spoken about Russian interference (Christopher Furlong/PA)

Analysis Burnham faces crucial test that will define leadership in Scotland

The SNP is launching its biggest ever pro-independence campaign since the 2014 referendum.

SNP says it is launching biggest independence campaign since indyref

Exclusive The five North Sea projects waiting in pipeline if Jackdaw approved
Five new North Sea oil and gas projects are awaiting Andy Burnham’s government to approve Rosebank and Jackdaw in order to further ramp up drilling.

Scottish swimmer Archie Goodburn, 25, during a meeting with Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Health Secretary Yvette Cooper (not in frame) at No 10 Downing Street, London.

'An inspiration to us all' PM praise for Archie Goodburn

Readers are split over Andy Burnham's overtures to the European Union (Picture: Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Readers' Letters: Closer links with the EU would be fine – on our terms

Mr Burnham during PMQs on Wednesday

Analysis Kemi Badenoch passes up big chance to make Andy Burnham squirm at PMQs

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is due to come to Scotland this week.

Burnham showing 'hypocrisy' on independence, says ex Sturgeon chief

Andy Burnham has said the UK's existing relationship with Europe is “not good enough” (Picture: House of Commons/PA)

Readers' Letters: Russian interference in Brexit claim is a red herring

Andy Burnham has vowed to take a ‘pragmatic’ approach to the North Sea

Failure to approve Rosebank and Jackdaw 'could cost economy £10.8bn'

Prime Minister Andy Burnham

SNP invite Andy Burnham to conference ahead of visit to Scotland

Third of Scottish firms say economic conditions better now than a year ago

Andy Burnham had backed further local devolution

Scottish businesses back English-style metro mayors, survey suggests

Pro-EU demonstrators attend a rally in London in June this year to mark the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum (Picture: Brook Mitchell)

As Burnham works on Brexit's flaws, Europhiles must heed call to arms Scotsman comment

Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham: Russia interfered with the 2016 Brexit referendum

Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, which was created by the resignation of Keir Starmer, last week (Picture: Peter Nicholls)

Why defeat of Greens' golden boy Polanski is such good news for UK Christine Jardine

Professor Sir John Curtice

Sir John Curtice: Very unlikely Burnham will call an early election

UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to build a £10 billion air defence system named 'Britannia Shield', which was initially described by party officials as 'in essence, a British Iron Dome' (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: How would a Badenoch government pay for a UK 'iron dome'?

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