Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a ...

He has the carefully cultivated air of a mild-mannered chartered accountant – which helped to earn him the nickname ‘Honest John’. But John Swinney ... been held at his head.

The programme John Swinney announced on Wednesday was all about the art of the possible, of keeping the government’s head above the ... the Not Proven verdict to holding rape trials without ...