Lara Bird: “I have a really good solution for that: let us go, let us be independent.”

Andy Burnham must change tact and match the SNP’s ambition to tackle child poverty.

That move alone would lift an estimated million children out of poverty overnight - that’s what a government and a party that is serious about ending child poverty looks like.

We have a really great opportunity at the next General Election to be in a position where that negotiation can seriously start with the next iteration of the Westminster government.

I think that provides a very unique opportunity for the SNP down in Westminster where we are likely going to return – I hope we certainly return – 40 plus MPs at the next General Election where in a hung parliament, that gives us a really…