John Swinney will be sworn in as Scotland’s new First Minister at the Court of Session today after he was formally elected to the job by MSPs yesterday. He becomes the seventh First Minister in the 25-year history of the Scottish Parliament. And this afternoon he is expected to announce his new Cabinet, with a key role anticipated for former Finance Secretary Kate Forbes who decided not to challenge him for the SNP leadership when Humza Yousaf announced he was standing down just over a week... Read this story
