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Reform could start “immediately beginning to legislate” within a week of winning.

We need to be strong. If you want peace, you prepare for war.

We pushed for its expansion across the rest of the country as soon as possible and we are glad bus users across the West of Scotland will start saving money from next week.

I think at the strategic level I think there should be fewer.

That is what is blocking up all our hospitals.

We have got to make sure is that we work with the trade unions to undertake a reform programme.

No prime minister has the right to “high-handedly” remove the provision for a unity referendum from the Good Friday Agreement.

If Ministers are serious about their commitment to boycott and divest from Israel, they need to stop hiding behind vague words and start actually delivering what MSPs voted for.

If a company has profited from apartheid and genocide then they should not be able to profit here in Scotland.

It is one year to the day since our parliament voted to boycott apartheid Israel, but the Scottish Government isn’t even doing the basics.

From this coming Monday, we are extending the £2 bus fare cap to: Glasgow, Ayrshire, Inverclyde, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire. It's already in place in the Highlands and Islands and we will roll it out nationwide. That's what…

This shows what is possible when decisions about Scotland are made here in Scotland, for Scotland. Just imagine how much further we could go with the fresh start of independence.

That’s what you get from the SNP under John Swinney’s trusted leadership – real action to help put more money in people’s pockets as bills continue to spiral under the Labour Party.

By bringing our trains back into public ownership, we can take decisions based on passenger needs rather than on profit margins – we’ve frozen fares too to get even more folk on our trains and saving cash.

Last year over 90m journeys were taken as people across the country took advantage of cheaper fares and it is absolutely right we continue to support people through the Westminster made cost of living crisis.

As we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the SNP scrapping peak rail fares, it’s brilliant to see passenger numbers have soared.

Local people deserve answers before decisions are made, not excuses after the damage has been done.

We cannot sleepwalk into a climate-wrecking project of this scale, which increasingly appears to be putting tech giant profits ahead of local communities.