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Während bei der Bevölkerung und unseren Polizisten mit dem Rotstift gewütet wird, schmeißt Karner eine Geburtstagsparty auf Steuerzahlerkosten für einen seiner ÖVP-Vorgänger im Innenministerium.

While the population and our police are being cut back, Karner throws a birthday party at taxpayers' expense for one of his ÖVP predecessors in the Ministry of the Interior.

We must see action by the police and others against this threat to our democracy and society.

It’s time to reach out beyond the Holyrood bubble and shake up Scottish politics.

I want to build local wealth and local power and renew Labour as a force for change within the Scottish Parliament and without.

I want us to back the workers and the wealth builders who hold the key to our future shared prosperity.

I am not here to wait around. As my track record shows, I am here to get things done.

Continuity won’t cut it

Any welfare reform must be based upon a strategy of providing positive support to people rather than punitive sanction.

If the new leadership believes it can revive the failed politics of welfare cuts instead of asking the wealthiest to pay their fair share, it will be repeating not only Keir Starmer’s mistakes but 14 years of Tory austerity.

This should be a proper discussion about how we do this incredibly well. It shouldn’t be about punitive measures, of course.

I MADE it clear to him that I intend to continue to pursue the importance of the democratic right of the people of Scotland to decide their own future should be respected.

We’ve got all the help we need on the ground, but we just needed additional aerial water spreading capacity and the UK Government doesn’t have that – I’m not rejecting anything, they just haven’t got anything to offer us.

The UK Government does not have such resources – that’s the only thing that we need, we don’t need any other help.

The Scottish Government asked the UK Government for help in one particular issue, which was about aerial firefighting capacity – that is, to drop water from helicopters onto the fire.

This Government is determined to help thousands more young people gain the skills, experience and confidence they need to build successful careers.

Too many young people face unnecessary barriers to apprenticeships, college places and training.

This is a serious investment in the next generation and in the future of our economy.

The welfare system should be a springboard to opportunity, not a barrier to it.