General election LIVE as Rishi Sunak arrives in Scotland with Tories trailing in polls

A Scottish council has opened an emergency polling booth to ensure people who have not received postal votes can still have their say in next week’s General Election.

The road from Manchester to Marple is littered with political signs popping out from the gardens.

Candidates all across the country will soon be competing in the general election to win one of 365 seats in Parliament.

A Scots Tory cabinet minister has admitted placing three bets on the date of the general election.

Scottish Secretary Alister Jack has claimed he won more than £2000 betting on a General Election to take place in July.

Labour has offered to meet J.K Rowling to provide her with “assurances” over the protection of women-only spaces.

Scotland’s voice “simply doesn’t matter to Westminster”, First Minister John Swinney will claim today.

Holyrood bosses are investigating claims staffers for SNP MSPs used the taxpayer-funded postage system for the general election.

The SNP could be left "significantly diminished" at Westminster with the party set for heavy losses at the general election, a new poll has found.

Nigel Farage has not been invited to join the BBC's two-hour long Question Time leaders' special, it has been revealed.The Reform UK leader is not part of the guest list for the show, which will feature PM Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Liberal Democrat Ed Davey and John Swinney from the SNP.The move comes after Farage warned he would "fight" BBC bosses if they excluded him from the high-profile televised debate and pointed to his strong polling numbers. Speaking at a press conference last week Farage said: "As we are now ahead of the Conservatives in the polls, I demand that Reform UK is a part of this debate.

John Swinney has warned right wing Nigel Farage is likely to become the next Tory leader and Prime Minister one day.

SNP leader John Swinney has said he supports Labour on imposing VAT on private school fees.

John Swinney has challenged Scottish Labour to stand up to Keir Starmer in demanding an end to the two-child benefit cap.

Voters are being reminded to double check that they are signed up to vote ahead of General Election 2024, as the deadline to so draws ever nearer.

Brian Cox has claimed the SNP has "backed off" from promoting Scottish independence during the general election campaign.

The former chairman of nationalised Prestwick Airport was paid up to £504 a day by the Scottish Government - while also working on his own bid to buy the facility.

Independence will "proudly" be one "page one, line one" of the Scottish National Party's General Election manifeso, according to John Swinney. The First Minister said that the manifestio will offer a "real vision of hope" when it is launched next week.

Falkirk was among the top performing Scottish councils for numeracy and literacy in 2022/23, while the percentage of pupils moving on to positive destinations is rising.

The first ever Green MSP has handed Scottish Labour a pre-election boost by joining Anas Sarwar’s party.

Welcome to the third week of the 2024 general election campaign as the parties in Scotland go all out to win over undecided voters.