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Westminster has finally admitted what the SNP has been saying for decades. Scotland should have an oil fund worth at least £1trn, but instead Westminster tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the Scottish people.

I suspect at this stage of the budget cycle I am the only member of the cabinet who can confidently say both at this budget coming up and next year’s spending review that not only have we been spending more on defence, but we will continue…

So in the face of those threats, which are not hypothetical but real, and not somewhere else but increasingly here, we have to step up and take seriously our national resilience as well as our national defence.

Terms like hybrid warfare and grey zone threats do not accurately capture or convey to the general public what I prefer to describe as state-sponsored terrorism.

No, we don’t. We see him as somebody who illegally invaded Ukraine at the start of this conflict, who has been responsible for conduct by his government that included attempted assassinations on UK soil.

Vaccines save lives. It has never been easier to find out if you are eligible and get vaccinated, helping protect yourself and reduce pressure on the NHS during the winter season.

It's clarifying, a clear gap between Labour and the Tories' sense of purpose and values.

Immigration control had been "weakened by Brexit" because the UK "lost collaboration with our European partners

I want much more opportunity for a regional dimension to take forward skills, economic opportunity and planning.

I do want a good growth in every postcode here, and in the rest of the UK, and I want to work with the first minister to deliver it. We won't agree on everything, but we can agree on something.

Low-income pensioners would not have to pay income tax in this Parliament.

I would honour the pledge given in Labour's 2024 manifesto to keep the triple lock unchanged in the current Parliament.

Any changes would have to be "done carefully, without putting extra strain on the public purse".

There is free personal care elsewhere in the UK. I don't think it's right that people in England don't get the same.

I want major reform of social care in England to create "a system that works on NHS principles" and where "everyone contributes, everyone is covered".

It will hold its value relative to earnings over time.

Of course, Kemi's ahead of us, we know that.

It was "inconceivable" to think that Russia did not try to interfere.