Dan Vevers
Dan Vevers is a chief reporter at the Sunday Mail and a political journalist whose coverage connects decisions taken in parliaments and boardrooms with their impact on ordinary people, public services and the environment. He has previously worked as a Scottish political reporter at The Scottish Sun, building a beat across Holyrood, Westminster and wider Scottish public life. His work regularly leads on major stories, from party finance and policing to poverty, climate and international conflict.
Scottish politics, parties and public money
Vevers covers Scottish politics as a core thread, with a longstanding focus on how party strategies, leadership changes and internal scandals play out for voters. At The Scottish Sun he reports on political developments and Scottish news, concentrating on Holyrood and Westminster and how decisions filter down to local government and communities. On the Planet Holyrood politics show he helps unpack major Scottish stories, including the Peter Murrell embezzlement scandal, the fallout from Keir Starmer’s resignation and front-page reporting on claims of a missing £1.5m from independence campaign group Yes Scotland.
His Sunday Mail role broadens that lens, positioning him at the centre of stories where public money, campaign funds or government policy become part of wider accountability questions.
Climate, environment and housing
Before moving into his current post, Vevers held the environment brief at the Daily Record, where he covered energy policy and regulation, climate change and animal welfare, with a focus on how government choices shape environmental outcomes. That work ranges from stories on energy and climate policy to reports highlighting animal rights concerns and local ecological impacts, keeping environmental issues within the mainstream news agenda.
His reporting has also examined the environmental and regulatory sides of industries such as salmon farming, including coverage of poor labour practices at a luxury fish firm’s facility and their broader implications. Alongside these pieces, he has written on housing and consumer risk, such as a case where an Ayrshire couple were told their high-value home was effectively unsellable because of spray foam insulation, treating personal stories as evidence of gaps in advice and oversight.
Taken together, his environment and housing coverage shows a consistent interest in how technical or regulatory decisions play out in everyday life.
Crime, policing and accountability
Vevers’ work often uses crime and policing stories as a way into questions of power and accountability. He has written about drug gangs operating through County Lines models, including coverage of gangs plaguing Inverness, linking organised crime to structural issues in policing and community protection.
His reporting in the Sunday Mail has also examined police transparency, including an article on calls for Scottish police officers to declare membership of Freemason lodges and other secret societies, framing it as a democratic and justice-system concern rather than a niche topic. These pieces sit alongside coverage of public safety and international security, such as front-page stories about Middle East conflict triggered by a joint US and Israeli military operation, where he sets domestic political reactions against events overseas.
Across this strand of his work, he uses crime and security as routes into questions about who is held to account and how open powerful institutions are to scrutiny.
Social justice, health and front-page features
Vevers consistently brings social justice questions into his reporting, whether the subject is health, welfare or war.
In the Sunday Mail he has fronted stories on terminally ill British people forced to live in grinding poverty, struggling to pay gas and electricity bills, treating their circumstances as evidence of systemic failure rather than isolated misfortune. His bylines also include coverage of new drug treatments, such as reporting on families being contacted by doctors to arrange access to a Givinostat therapy following a Sunday Mail campaign, showing how sustained reporting can help move policy and clinical practice.
These kinds of pieces sit alongside investigations into how membership of secret societies among public servants might undermine trust in justice, reinforcing a broader thread in his work that ties fairness, transparency and material living conditions together. As chief reporter, he uses long-form, lead-story formats to keep these issues prominent, connecting individual testimonies with decisions taken by governments, regulators and corporate boards.
Across politics, environment, crime and social justice, Vevers works at the point where public decisions meet real-world consequences, using front-page reporting and analysis to turn complex policy and power structures into concrete narratives about who benefits, who loses and who is answerable.
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