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As the effects of the climate crisis get closer and closer to home it’s important we step up our domestic defence capabilities to ensure we can protect our communities from environmental threats just as well as we can from military threats.

I mean, is that really – yes, it will be a backpack – but on a day when nearly 150,000 young people are awaiting exam results to shape their future, whether it's a backpack or a bag on their shoulder, really isn't the most important thing…

I think that’s a nonsense. We have just been returned to government with an absolutely whopping endorsement of our manifesto.

He won a historic fifth term for the SNP. He is a nationalist and a believer in independence to his core.

With respect, no, she is not correct. I have been a minister for a number of years. I’ve had the great privilege of serving all SNP first ministers and what I will say about John Swinney is that we have the best First Minister yet.

Football without the fans means nothing at all.

Infantino has been nothing short of an embarrassment to world football.

The SFA should cut the dithering and publicly withdraw their support for this stain on the game.

I urge him to reconsider and to reverse the harm done by the UK Government over the past two years.

UK Government decisions on immigration have inflicted pain on our social care sector at a time when demand for care is increasing and its choices on tax have heaped an £84 million bill on the sector by increasing Employers’ National…

I committed to provide an extra 45,000 hours of care each month and we have begun to deliver that increase within the first 100 days of the new government.

We are all too familiar with the challenges facing our adult social care sector, especially given our ageing population, and it’s why we must ensure services meet our growing demand for care.

I want that to happen as quickly as possible.

This is a major setback for human rights and a day that many trans people, and those who love them, have been dreading.

We are stripping back what’s known as social value to focus it ruthlessly on that priority.

If you prioritise everything, then you’re prioritising nothing.

For too long, [public] procurement has tried to tick too many boxes.

Companies that profit from apartheid and genocide against Palestinians should not be rewarded with Scottish Government partnerships, it’s as simple as that. Cosying up to Barclays is the opposite of what our Parliament voted for.