Lara Bird: “It has been decades that the UK Government has been faced with facts, has been faced with reality and has chosen not to…”

I am so angry that a few weeks ago I had to sit in the House of Commons and listen to Ed Miliband stand up with all the audacity that he had and pretend that the information that he was using to make the decisions to sanction Israel was…

Have absolutely no doubt that when I’m in Westminster representing you, representing Arbroath and Broughty Ferry and representing the SNP, I will continue to be angry and I will use that anger.

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.

It makes a genuine difference to families in every single community across this nation.