We urgently need clarity from the SNP government about their reforms, and a commitment that it will mean more powers and more funding for local communities.
Scottish Labour leader calling for clarity on government reforms.
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Councils have been underfunded and too often Labour councillors have been the last line of defence for local services in the teeth of cuts handed out from Holyrood.
In 2015 Nicola Sturgeon said closing the attainment gap between the richest and the poorest pupils was her top priority and appointed John Swinney to do it.
He is the most popular politician in Scotland by a distance, the most popular politician since Nicola Sturgeon, but we need to translate that into party support.
I don’t think there is any prime minister in history that has lost popularity at the rate the previous prime minister did, and the rate at which that happened was particularly challenging.
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