John Swinney’s £500million cuts to Holyrood budget cast dark cloud over Holyrood

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John Swinney’s £500million cuts to Holyrood budget cast dark cloud over Holyrood
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The SNP has styled itself since 2007 as economically competent and compassionate. However, this round of cuts is anything but.

To slash over £100million from the health and social care budgets at a time of huge NHS pressure is outrageous. Ministers will say the NHS front line has been protected.

Top news stories today His only hope in the run-up to 2026 Holyrood elections is if he successfully casts Labour as the villains. The Tories were in power for 14 years and the SNP were right to blame them for tanking the UK economy – leaving us all worse off. Some of the public sector pay deals funded by the Scottish Government have led to severe pressure on budgets. That is not something which they can pin on Keir Starmer.

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