John Swinney: “Anti-Muslim hatred is abhorrent, and we must not allow recent attempts to stoke fear to divide us”

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.

And I would welcome Scotland being able to determine our approach to immigration and to asylum.

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

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.