Live Blog: Scottish and Welsh election results. The SNP fails to win its majority. And Ross holds the Conservative position steady.

The latest results, news and analysis from Holyrood and Cardiff Bay as they come in.

Will Sturgeon “go on and on and on”?

We don’t read her as a quitter. And the next election may come as early as 2023. But if she does step down before it, you read it here first.

WATCH: Sarwar on why he’s taking Sturgeon on in her own Holyrood constituency

The new leader of Scottish Labour says it demonstrates that he is ‘tough enough’ to revive his party’s ailing fortunes.

Jamie Blackett: Scottish Tories should put country before party and back ‘All for Unity’ on the list vote

Playing for second place is not good enough. It may be difficult to deliver, but an expansive pro-UK electoral alliance is our best hope.

How even a modest Labour revival in Scotland could return more Conservative MPs

Contra mistaken notions of ‘unionist unity’, the Opposition can reach sections of the current SNP vote that the Tories cannot.

Henry Hill: ‘Stronger together’ – Ministers put vaccine at the centre of its latest pro-Union push

Also: Gove should beware Brown’s constitutional anti-wisdom; Davies makes way for Davies; and MSPs compel evidence over Salmond row.

Why Conservatives should cautiously welcome fresh leadership for Scottish Labour

The party needs to reach parts of the pro-UK electorate that the Tories cannot. Under Leonard, it has signally failed to do so.

Starmer’s trite anti-Westminster populism shows Labour still aren’t serious on the Union

In a self-repudiating speech, he sets out his plan to ‘make the case for the United Kingdom’ by making it as insignificant to our lives as he possibly can.

Henry Hill: The beacons are lit! Aberdeen calls for aid, and London must answer

An embattled Scottish local authority is trying to bypass Holyrood’s stranglehold and appeal to the city’s other government. Time for the Union to prove itself.

Henry Hill: MSPs scent blood as the Scottish Government fights to thwart the Salmond inquiry

SNP ministers are blocking witnesses and withholding legal advice. Can the opposition capitalise?

Henry Hill: Sturgeon’s timeline on Salmond scandal called into question as MSPs demand evidence

Also: true scale of the Irish Protocol’s impact on commerce, and Stormont’s ‘rank incompetence’, show how Ulster unionism needs a refresh.

Alliance for Unity, the new movement which could give Galloway his next political life

He has a good eye for political openings, and Labour’s woes might have created a space for an avowedly left-wing, pro-UK figure.

Henry Hill: After decades on the defensive, Westminster is finally gearing up to counter-attack the SNP

The Nationalists’ campaign has been so successful that leading pro-UK campaigners shy away from saying ‘Britain’. That isn’t sustainable.

Henry Hill: Having called for Swinney’s head, Ross refuses to back Williamson over A Level fiasco

Also: Welsh Government back SNP in fight over post-EU powers; SNP loyalist appointed to head ‘independent’ inquiry as party muzzles MSPs; and more.

Tom Harris: Scottish Labour’s continuing capitulation to nationalism reeks of political desperation

It seems to gaze upon the SNP’s seemingly unstoppable rise and conclude that Sturgeon’s party is doing something right.