John Swinney: “This is a real loss of around £2,000 per person per year if they are a pensioner.”

We will back them with a new three-year £30 million Scotland Together Fund to give them the tools they need to push back the tide of racism in Scotland.

Friends, we are winning. One by one, the stars are aligning in our favour.

I’m all for the Scottish Parliament having as many powers as it possibly can do, and I’ll work constructively to make sure we bring all those powers to Scotland.

Make no mistake – if we had lost the election this year, if we were out of power – then the independence cause would have been set back decades.