John Swinney: “It provides people with certainty.”

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.

I can announce today that we will fund the community groups, the people who are the very best of us, who are doing the hard yards to build bridges and break down barriers.

The Prime Minister is very welcome in Scotland and I’ll be interested to hear what he’s got to say.

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.