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Starmer under pressure as Labour suffers heavy election losses including historic Wales defeat

Scotland, the SNP is expected be the largest party in Scotland but fall short of an overall

Swinney predicts SNP majority at Holyrood election

SNP will win the 65 seats it needs for a majority. Such a result, he insists, would provide a mandate for a second independence referendum. Scotland's other largest parties

SNP wins Scottish election as Reform and Labour tie for second

Scotland.](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewpgkrrn05o) The Scottish Greens won a record 15 seats - [including their first ever constituency victories](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78k79xm2mzo). The Conservatives lost their position as the parliament's largest opposition party, suffering their

Pressure grows on Starmer as more Labour MPs call for resignation – UK politics live

party’s 27 years in power has come to an end** with **Plaid Cymru** winning the largest number of seats, though still short of a majority. In Scotland, **the SNP

SNP leader John Swinney rules out Holyrood talks with Reform UK

party had worked constructively with the Tories and Labour on other issues. However, the SNP leader said Reform's leader in Scotland, Malcolm Offord, would not be invited for talks. The SNP leader said that

The city caught in the middle of the big energy shift debate

largest untapped oil field in British waters, which sits off the Shetland Isles in the North Atlantic. Nigel Farage's Reform UK party agrees with Trump and is campaigning for the 7 May Scottish parliament

John Swinney declares victory for SNP in Holyrood elections

Scotland’s parties braced for a series of shock results. Senior figures in the pro-independence party believe they could unseat Angus Robertson, the Scottish National party cabinet minister, in Edinburgh Central and were originally

2026 elections mapped: how Labour lost ground in different directions

Scotland, Labour suffered as the [Scottish National party capitalised on a divided vote](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/08/john-swinney-declares-victory-for-snp-in-holyrood-elections). As Reform made gains, largely at the expense of the Conservatives, Labour failed to translate discontent with the SNP

Swinney keen to work with fellow nationalist devolved leaders in UK

Scotland](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland) Act 1998, which set it up, Holyrood has no powers to legislate on constitutional change. Asked whether he had a mandate to do so given the SNP had failed to achieve

Don’t let Farage and Reform divide us, Labour’s Sarwar urges Holyrood leaders

party was ‘not interested in making sure everybody is media-trained’. Photograph: Robert Perry/Getty Images The Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay was asked on the programme about Q Manivannan, one of her Edinburgh MSPs

Badenoch calls Farage an ‘opportunist’ after he urges Scottish nationalists to back Reform

largest party. But if Reform UK succeeds in winning 10 or more seats, as the polls suggest, its votes could be crucial. When Offord was asked on Wednesday whether the he would work with Labour

Lib Dems offer alternative to extremes of Reform and Greens, Davey says

Scotland. He added: "Clearly, the populist parties on the extremes of left and right have also done well. "But I think the more that they are exposed and the more people see their policies, they

If Plaid win in Wales, that won't mean independence - at least not yet

largest party after the election and has managed to depose Labour after a century, frankly he's going to be unassailable," he said. A recent poll carried out for the BBC found support for Welsh

Scottish Labour leader calls claim he tried to do Reform deal a ‘desperate lie’

Scotland leader, Malcolm Offord, that he offered to do a deal with the hard-right party to keep the Scottish National party out of power. Offord made the claim on Channel 4’s Scottish leaders

Keir Starmer under pressure to agree exit plan after election mauling

Scotland behind the SNP and Reform. While the prime minister appeared to have avoided an immediate coup, there was a furious response to the results among senior MPs and the unions, with some warning

End of Trump tariffs on whisky sparks row between Scottish parties over claiming credit

party, which Swinney leads, are in the final week of a lacklustre Scottish parliament election campaign in which [Labour](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour) is fighting to prevent the SNP winning a fifth successive term in office

Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth hopes to be first minister on Tuesday

largest Cardiff Bay group, with 43 seats, ap Iorwerth needs to win a vote of Senedd members to be appointed, but Labour's interim Welsh leader, Ken Skates, has indicated it is unlikely to oppose

UK elections – early results and takeaways; will Starmer have to resign?

SNP) and in Wales to Plaid Cymru. While it has gained seats on many councils, it only has overall control of two so far – Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in the north and Havering council

Campaigning sprint finish ahead of elections around Britain tomorrow

largest party in the newly expanded Senedd, the Welsh Parliament. Plaid argue they are the only party that can beat Reform, and so hope to attract voters who might not normally be drawn to them

What impact do refugees have on housing in Glasgow?

largest number of asylum seekers among all UK local authorities - [including 3,683 who are receiving housing support](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70989jrdweo), and another 152 who receive other financial support but not accommodation. Glasgow signed