A Westminster committee says independence would have a damaging effect on higher education and research in Scotland.

Ed Miliband leads tributes to the “iconic” former Labour cabinet minister and left-wing campaigner Tony Benn.

The number of former Eton pupils in Prime Minister David Cameron’s inner circle is “ridiculous”, Education Secretary Michael Gove says.

The English Democrats are set to hold their spring conference, pledging to give a voice to English nationalism.

The Conservative Party will continue cutting Britain’s spending deficit, its Scottish members are to be told at their Edinburgh conference.

Wealthy people living alone in large homes should lose their council tax discount to fund more help for poorer families, […]