Meghan Gallacher: “Scotland’s schools were already under huge pressure thanks to years of SNP-Green mismanagement, and Labour’s VAT raid is…”

Cynics will be asking why the former health secretary Neil Gray was still claiming that everything was on track for the new Monklands Hospital just weeks before the Holyrood election.

Private schools are under mounting financial pressure, while state schools are being left to pick up the pieces as more pupils transfer across.

Given this broken promise, can you please confirm whether any formal risk to the approval or deliverability of the Monklands Hospital business case was recorded on any official Scottish Government risk register before polling day.

Labour promised £150 million to help meet that pressure, but families and schools are still waiting to see it.