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This was a simple test of the Scottish Government’s commitment to boycotting companies complicit in some of the gravest war crimes of this century, and they failed it.

There is no BDS-compliant way to work with Barclays. The bank has financed companies supplying the weapons used in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians and it is a partner in the Israeli government’s own bond scheme.

This is a non-answer from the Scottish Government and they know it. When it comes to supporting Palestine and opposing Israel, their actions just do not match their words.

But I’m absolutely over the moon to have my own mandate that allows me to improve the lives of the people in Scotland and that’s exactly what I intend to do.

I enjoyed working for Nicola Sturgeon as her deputy first minister and I delivered, along with her, significant improvements in the lives of people in Scotland.

The SNP has just won the election and has commanded the confidence of the people of Scotland with an election campaign that related to what I thought was the most important issue facing the people of Scotland in the election campaign…

So I think, on objective data, it demonstrates the SNP ran a strong, commanding election campaign, we got a big win from the people of Scotland, and I’m very pleased to have led that campaign.

The election campaign resulted in an SNP win. It resulted in the biggest gap between the SNP and our nearest opposition party (since devolution).

Were we not to make these changes, then we would run out of prison places in this October or November. I know that’s difficult. I know that’s created harm, and it’s not Lissie Harper’s fault, and I’m sorry that she’s been put into this…

Every dangerous weapon that has been surrendered so far is a weapon off our streets and a community made that little bit safer.

We must never stop fighting to rid society of this evil.

Antisemitism goes against our country's values and I will do everything in my power to protect our Jewish communities.

People living in fear just for being who they are

We know there is evidence of at least 32 charities engaging in this abhorrent practice.

Charity systems are abused to funnel support to illegal settlements and some evidence suggests that rules are being broken.

Of course it’s not easy. I really did not think it was possible to win the election when I came back into the shadow cabinet in 2022. It’s only because of what Keir did that we managed to win.

In the end, the most important people in the maternity services are the mothers, babies, the families. But the point of having a maternity commissioner is to make sure that those issues are championed as part of an NHS.

We’ve always said the NHS is about the cradle to the grave. I want to make it a personal crusade to put the cradle back at the heart of the NHS, and to have much more focus around maternity and child health, the very beginning of a…