Swinney laments ‘changed days’ at Holyrood on 25th anniversary of first election

Scots voted in their first MSPs on May 6, 1999 – and the man expected to become the new first minister was one of them.

It has been 25 years since Scots first voted in a Holyrood election – but the man who will almost certainly be the country’s next first minister has said there have already been “changed days” at the Parliament as a result of the “aggressive” Westminster Government.