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Edinburgh public affairs firm hires former head of comms and research for SNP trib.al/0cIZmRv
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Ruth Davidson is back leading #FMQs for the Scottish Tories, and it's not going well...
Homer Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberger
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SNP Leader @NicolaSturgeon has published her tax returns online.
The documents confirm her sole income is the salary she receives as an MSP and First Minister. She has called on other party leaders to do the same.
You can read the documents here 👇 snp.org/nicola-sturgeon-publ…
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Andy Burnham wants Scotland to learn from his £1 kid/£2 adult bus fare cap in Manchester - but he didn't do his homework.
🏴 In Scotland, bus travel is free for under 22s.
🏰 In Edinburgh, where he was speaking from, a single fare is £1.80.
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"Racism always sickens me but there is nothing that turns my stomach more than the idea of adults... that can look at a photograph of beautiful, clever children and only see the colour of their skin." @NicolaSturgeon
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“Maybe Douglas Ross would like to come with me and I’ll introduce him to some working class communities across the country” @NicolaSturgeon (via @AlanJZycinski)
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The Prime Minister refuses @Ianblackford_MP's call to scrap the non-dom status (which Sunak's own wife benefitted from until recently). It could bring in £3.2 billion to the UK Treasury each year.
We're all in this together? Not in Tory Britain. #PMQs
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"Douglas Ross has spent far more time standing up for Boris Johnson than he has standing up for Scotland" - @NicolaSturgeon #FMQs
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My gran died yesterday at the ripe old age of 98. More comebacks than Sinatra and wholly responsible for my questionable music taste.
We're forever indebted to the incredible care staff who looked after her in get final years and were by her side at the end when we couldn't be.
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"I've had enough of mitigation... we should be independent, dealing with these issues here and now... and never ever have to suffer Tory austerity again." @CGrahameMSP
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This is one of the most incredible statements we’ve seen in a pandemic from a journalist.
Unsure where people think furlough £ came from - it’s borrowing. Scotland can’t cause it doesn’t have the powers - with independence, it would (like every other country in the world)
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SNP Leader @NicolaSturgeon tells BBC Breakfast that while Westminster has trashed the UK economy in the middle of the cost of living crisis, the Scottish Government is delivering the Scottish Child Payment, a rent freeze and targeted support for those on the lowest incomes #SNP22
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I see the SNP are getting the blame for ruining the PMs holiday. You literally couldn't make this up.
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Only @NicolaSturgeon could deliver a resignation speech that raises us from the immense sadness we feel today.
What a privilege it’s been to work with such an outstanding leader over the years. A true political giant.
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Scotland doesn’t just need rid of Boris Johnson - it needs rid of Tory Prime Ministers that we didn’t vote for, full stop. #indyref2
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Douglas Ross' bluster is torn apart as @NicolaSturgeon highlights the stark reality of government under a Brexit-obsessed Tory party
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“Only last week, we suspended two Labour councillors in Edinburgh because they weren’t prepared to vote for the Tories instead of the SNP.”
Labour in their own words.
Phantom Power
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Anas Sarwar's hypocrisy on vaccine certification knows no bounds. He opposes it for large gatherings but makes it mandatory for Scottish Labour's conference.
Today, @NicolaSturgeon called him out... 🔥
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon calls out Douglas Ross for talking down Scotland's vaccine rollout - the most successful anywhere in the UK #FMQs
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Just one hour after Nicola Sturgeon announced it, the Scottish Tories refused to back (even in principle) the rent freeze and moratorium on evictions #DontVoteTory
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According to Douglas Ross, a vote for the SNP (who won the election) isn’t a mandate for a referendum, but a vote for the Scottish Tories (who definitely did *not* win the election) is a mandate to never ever give people in Scotland a choice over independence again 🙄 #bbcgms
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Scottish Tories demand Scotland is kept under Westminster control but can’t name a single benefit of being dragged out the EU - a deeply damaging consequence of being yoked to Westminster.
indy swim 🏴
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Hard to explain the anger I feel tonight. Tory MPs lined up to vote against children like Cameron getting school meals at Christmas.
Grown adults who are paid more than £80k a year went out of their way to deliberately prevent hungry kids from eating. Sickening.
"We try not to eat a lot in one day, even though most of us are really hungry."
Almost 1 in 3 children in the UK are now growing up poor, like Cameron and his two sisters whose family rely on a food bank to help fill the fridge.
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Quote of the Day - from @NicolaSturgeon:
"It is glaringly obvious now that the UK does not offer economic strength and stability, or financial security." #indyref2
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Scotland wants a different future, not just a different Prime Minister.
So if he won’t resign, will he call a general election and allow Scotland the choice of an independent future, free from the damage of Westminster control?
@Ianblackford_MP #PMQs
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FM @HumzaYousaf says he will take no lectures in division from Douglas Ross in this stinging takedown of the Scottish Tory leader #FMQs
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“I’ve just won a landslide election and a five year term. I have the energy and the appetite to get Scotland through the COVID crisis and then onwards to independence” - @NicolaSturgeon #Marr
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Douglas Ross is so terrified of the verdict of the Scottish people on independence that he's reduced to pretending that democracy in Scotland is illegal - @NicolaSturgeon #FMQs
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Nicola Sturgeon describes Tory plans to privatise Channel 4 as "cultural vandalism" which "undermines the principles of public broadcasting" #FMQs
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"What Scotland needs is the full powers of an independent nation to chart our own course and get out of this broken and unequal union." @HumzaYousaf #FMQs
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"The safety of our children is the most paramount thing - surely the (Tory) Member agrees?" @kaukabstewart
"No, I don't agree."
ICYMI: Exams will go ahead unless the public heath advice at the time goes against that. The opportunism from the Tories is absolutely staggering.
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"If Douglas Ross was really confident in his arguments [on independence], he'd have the courage to have this debate not just in the safety of the debating chamber but out there in towns, villages and communities across Scotland." @NicolaSturgeon #FMQs
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The SNP record under @NicolaSturgeon:
📉 Unemployment at lowest level on record
⌛️ Longest waits for treatment falling
🧑⚕️ No strikes in Scotland's NHS
💷 Best for inward investment outside London
🧒 Lifting more children out of poverty than anywhere else in the UK #FMQs
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“Perhaps only thing nuclear weapons are deterring is the ability to properly and directly help Ukraine” @NicolaSturgeon
Representing Border
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A concise, considered argument from @graceblakeley on #PoliticsLive who argues Scotland should be able to decide on its own future
It's about government in the interests of the majority of people, not for a tiny elite #ItsTime
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FM @NicolaSturgeon: Current funding arrangements mean that though taxpayers in all 4 UK nations contribute to the costs, it is decisions taken for England that determine the resources available to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for testing and other Covid measures.
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SNP MP @MrJohnNicolson sums up the case for independence in a sentence - via @PinkNews
"Westminster is saying: We don’t care what the Scottish parliament decides. We are in charge. We will decide what you can and cannot pass in your parliament."thepinknews.com/2023/01/16/s…
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Giving Torvil and Dean a run for their money, @NicolaSturgeon and @DerekMackaySNP hit the #SNPtour campaign trail in Aberdeen #VoteSNP
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🌳 There's a bit of focus on tree planting today on the #GE19 campaign trail. Under the SNP, Scotland planted 22 million trees last year alone.
The gap between Scotland and the rest of the UK is staggering - Scotland made up 83.6% of the UK's mainland tree planting last year
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"No matter how uncomfortable it makes [the Scottish Tories], the SNP will never stop talking about the scourge of poverty - particularly child poverty - and our determination to tackle and to eradicate it" @NicolaSturgeon #FMQs
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"The Tories are trying to force a feeling of helplessness and dependency in Scotland...
"They seek to feed the myth that it's better to allow people like Boris Johnson to be in charge rather than us being accountable for creating our own future" @MichelleThomson #indyref2
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Lots of people waking up with a sore head and full of regret this morning at the pictures they appeared in last night.
Thinking of David Beckham at this difficult time.
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📺 SNP MP @MhairiBlack tells @RidgeOnSunday that Boris Johnson might take a leaf out of Nicola Sturgeon’s book and submit himself to 8 hours of parliamentary scrutiny over his misleading of Parliament over COVID contracts
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Labour are in bed with the Tories in councils across Scotland, while the SNP Scottish Government increase the Scottish Child Payment to £25 per week and expand to all eligible under 16s. Just saying.
SNP stands in the way of social justice for Scotland, claims @Keir_Starmer
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon updates @ScotParl on Scotland's COVID vaccine rollout.
Progress in 🏴 so far:
💉 98% of care home residents
💉 88% of care home staff
💉 Close to 90% of over-80s
💉 21% of over-75s
💉 all over 70s & vulnerable adults on track for mid-Feb
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"Mitigating Tory policies may be good enough for Labour, but it's not good enough for me and it's not good enough for Scotland" @CGrahameMSP 🔥
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🏴 @NicolaSturgeon announces a Young Patient Family Fund - covering the cost of travel, accommodation and meals for the families of sick kids in hospital.
🏥 SNP MP @AmyCallaghanSNP - who twice survived cancer as a teenager - says the fund is “groundbreaking” #BothVoteSNP
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We're doubling the Scottish Child Payment to try to help us meet the child poverty targets while a government in London is taking away with the other hand money from the very families we're trying to help.
That makes no sense - @NicolaSturgeon
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SNP Westminster Leader @Ianblackford_MP tells #bbcgms that the Prime Minister has missed the last three COBR meetings - he is missing in action in the middle of pandemic crisis point
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First Minister @NicolaSturgeon says that it's her job to make decisions in the best interests of people in Scotland - it's about reducing the number of people dying, not party politics #r4Today #coronavirus
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The people of East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow voted for a SNP MP to represent them at Westminster. They didn’t vote for a Tory.
If the person they elected chooses not to fulfil that duty, they must stand down and let the electorate decide.
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"I wonder if it ever - just ever - crosses the mind of the Conservatives that perhaps cases are down, hospitalisations and down, people in intensive care are reducing, are - at least in part - because of some of these protective measures we are taking." - @NicolaSturgeon
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Wondering about the SNP Scottish Government's record on education?
@JennyGilruth just gave the Labour benches in Holyrood a reminder...
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Austerity-denying Tory MSPs try and shout her down but @MareeToddMSP lists exactly what the SNP Scottish Government is doing to tackle child poverty in Scotland.
Reiterating the conclusions of the Child Poverty Action Group report only makes the Tories angrier. Unbelievable.
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Last week, the PMs visit to Scotland seemed ill-advised. Today, we now know it was downright reckless.
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Nicola Sturgeon says we need the full powers of independence more than ever at #FMQs - not just to tackle the cost of living crisis but to address that we pay more than £700m mitigating the impact of Tory austerity we consistently reject at the ballot box
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🏴 @NicolaSturgeon: "My message today is for all of Scotland and it is this -
"Wherever you are from, whatever age you are, whatever your background – and no matter who you voted for - the SNP in government is dedicated to working for you."
📺 Tune into @BBCNews channel now for @NicolaSturgeon victory speech. #SNPWin #SNP21 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcne…
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What a formidable team who gave it all - and what a fantastic result for the SNP! #SNPGAIN
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Feeling deflated. We’ve become completely desensitised to hateful racism on the streets of Glasgow. Can there be a meaningful turning point? nitter.app/Ulysses1954/status/143…
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"For the first time since the post was created in 1885, the Secretary of State for Scotland is arguing for the material disadvantage of the territory that he represents in Cabinet" - @TommySheppard
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An excellent job by @drewhendrySNP here against a pretty one-sided pile-on on #bbcqt.
The SNP stands on a proud record working with the limited powers Scotland has. Just think what we could do with the full powers of independence.
Derek, Scottish not Scotish.
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SNP Ministers slammed for implementing a manifesto commitment that people voted for
SNP ministers slammed for budgeting £20m for Scottish independence referendum dailyrecord.co.uk/news/polit…
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📣 He's shouted down by the Tories, but @PeteWishart tells the Commons that Scotland rejects the Tories' damaging Brexit deal.
"Isn't it the case, Prime Minister, the only way that Scotland can retain the EU membership it requires is to become an independent nation?"
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Interesting that some journalists are outraged that Scotland is TOO efficient in updating its citizens on developments of a global health pandemic 👀
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Not only is @Dr_PhilippaW a great MP in both her constituency and in parliament, she takes her skill as breast cancer surgeon in war-torn places like Gaza AND also does interviews in German. Talk about talented...
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Tories refused to fund the Conference of Youth - a coming together of young people from 140 countries around the world, mandated by the UN to set out their asks of world leaders.
@NicolaSturgeon confirms that the SNP Scottish Government will fund the Conference of Youth #SNP21
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Nicola Sturgeon led our nation through the the most uncertain period in most people’s living memory.
She did so from the front, looking the public in the eye each day and owned every decision her Government took. That burden is great. Thank you, Nicola.
LBC News Scotland
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I haven't heard a single positive policy or suggestion from the Scottish Conservatives at this election - @NicolaSturgeon #GE19 #VoteSNP
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Disgraceful tactics from UKgov - @Ianblackford_MP highlights in the Commons that the Tory government has issued an embargoed press release concerning devolved powers, but the devolved administrations have yet to be approached about this significant development. Shameful.
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Douglas Ross shouts about the "attainment gap" - failing to give its full title of "poverty-related attainment gap".
Douglas Ross' Tories have taken £20 a week from those on Universal Credit, hiked NI for families and only fed hungry kids when shamed by Marcus Rashford. #FMQs
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"There is now so little difference between Labour and the Tories that their MPs are interchangeable" #FMQs
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Fact check: ‘Scottish’ followed immediately by ‘Other British’ in terms of ethnicity has been part of the Scottish Census since 2001.
Scottish Tories voted Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill on 12 June 2019. Where has this manufactured opposition come from?
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A Tory council leader tells @BBCNews that families should consider “how many children they have” on the week that Universal Credit is cut by £20 a week.
Welcome to Tory Britain 🇬🇧
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"It's how it is and it's how it's going to be"
This is the message from the Tory benches in Westminster to Scotland - get back in your box and shut up. Disgraceful.
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With a constrained budget and without borrowing powers, Holyrood cannot continue to mitigate every bad Tory policy from Westminster.
@NicolaSturgeon lays this out plainly for Anas Sarwar at #FMQs today #CancelTheCut #UniversalCredit
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Today's #FMQs was a forensic takedown of Douglas Ross and his Tory party, which has no mandate to govern in Scotland.
Here's @NicolaSturgeon with a potted history of Douglas Ross' flexible principles in just the last few weeks.
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FM Nicola Sturgeon quotes Irish historian Owen Dudley Edwards:
“I discovered I had become Scottish long before I arrived here. To be Scottish was to enter the world of Scottish imagination. To be Scots is to be told... that you are welcome and make yourself at home.” #SNP19
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Scotland is no exception to racist behaviour. But when Nicola Sturgeon said "anybody who chooses to live in Scotland..this is their home" - she means it.
Meanwhile, Tories at WM push a xenophobic Borders Bill, a hostile environment immigration system and put a racist in No. 10
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Well done, Glasgow ❤️
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Sobering update from DFM @JohnSwinney in Holyrood today. Scotland's fixed budget means a fair pay deal for public sector workers has to be paid for elsewhere.
Scotland needs the full powers of independence. We can't keep begging a UK gov to pull fiscal levers we should have.
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🏴 The SNP has committed to free music tuition in Scotland’s schools if re-elected on 6th May.
Delivering for Scotland - make it #BothVotesSNP thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-p…
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"Labour robbed women of Glasgow of money that was rightfully theirs" - @NicolaSturgeon #FMQs
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"There has not been a functioning United Kingdom government for the best part of 12 months. It literally has not functioned." - DFM @JohnSwinney
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“Any help that the Armed Forces give to Scotland is not a favour from the [UK] Secretary of State... It’s our armed forces that the people of Scotland pay for through their taxes”
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An assured performance by @MairiMcAllan on #bbcqt tonight.
We in @theSNP are lucky to have such talent in our ranks, setting out that positive vision for a better nation now, as well as in the future - with the full powers of independence.
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🏴 FM @NicolaSturgeon confirms that more than 4 million Scots have now received their first dose of the COVID vaccine - an incredible 90% of all adults in Scotland have taken up the offer 💉
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"We've just heard that interest rates have been increased by the Bank of England to 3%... the biggest single increase since Black Wednesday in 1992.
"That's the cost to people of Tory economic mismanagement" - @NicolaSturgeon #FMQs
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🏴 "The best way, not just of protecting this Parliament from Westminster, but also equipping it with the full powers it needs to build a fairer, more prosperous country, is to make this Parliament independent of Westminster." - @NicolaSturgeon
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DFM @_KateForbes says the SNP Scottish Government's progressive approach taxation means we can pay nurses more than England and invest in our NHS - while Westminster parties' plans mean cuts to public services #VoteSNP #GE24 @BBCNewsnight
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FM @HumzaYousaf tells Douglas Ross that the SNP Scottish Government will never apologise for saving hundreds of jobs at Ferguson Marine in Port Glasgow.
The Tories would have thrown those workers on the scrap heap. The SNP saved their jobs. #FMQs
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The SNP got more than 44% of the first preference vote in Perth City North.
A huge testament to candidate - now Cllr - Carol Mair and the incredible SNP activist network on the ground 👏 #ActiveSNP #SNPGAIN
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"The speed of [@scotgov] decision making is something to be noted - it was superb. So thank you, Scottish Government, for that"
Fascinating analysis from the Chair of the Humanitarian Emergency Fund on the speed of financial aid getting to those in need from Scotland
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The Tories shout down @Ianblackford_MP because they don’t want to hear the record of their new PM - who slashed Universal Credit by £20 a week for those on the lowest incomes #PMQs
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