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Swinney

(ˈswɪnɪ)
n
(Biography) John (Ramsay). born 1964, Scottish politician; leader of the Scottish National Party (2000–04); Scottish government finance minister from 2007
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The opinions, brought in as part of an independent review commissioned by education secretary John Swinney, led to a number of comments on the Daily Record Facebook.
Deputy First Minister John Swinney yesterday claimed the "tide is turning" towards the SNP when he visited Shetland in advance of next month's crucial byelection.
Corona del Mar, CA, May 12, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Colleen Swinney has joined the Corona del Mar office of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties as a REALTOR[R]-Sales Associate.
John Swinney insisted that his budget for 2013-14 is one for jobs and growth.
Finance Secretary John Swinney has been at the eye of the hurricane as opponents batter his party with questions about the economy of a stand-alone Scotland.
COUNCIL tax bills should be frozen for the third time next year, Finance Secretary John Swinney said yesterday.
Christopher Swinney ransacked Mary Morris' home while he was supposed to be keeping an eye on it while the pensioner was on holiday.
OUSTED SNP leader John Swinney blames Alex Salmond for his downfall, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
Swinney, Chris Bizon, and their colleagues at the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin have now developed a way to predict the collective behavior of these bouncing grains.
IN THE "you had just one job to do" category of failure, John Swinney's admission this week that his education reform bill has been abandoned has to be up there with Theresa May insisting "nothing has changed" after she dropped the dementia tax from her 2017 manifesto.