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When the Government finally gets the courage to act on their own commitment, they will have our full support.

The Scottish Government must offer a clear roadmap for Scotland that protects everyone affected, leaving no loopholes for abuse and ensuring that no-one is left behind.

A comprehensive, watertight ban has been promised again and again, and rather than following through on the promises the Scottish Government made, today’s Programme for Government has delayed it further.

Conversion practices have no place in modern Scotland.

Allowing the data centre industry to grab Scotland’s natural resources for their own benefit would be yet another example.

If hundreds of megawatts of renewable electricity are diverted from homes to hyperscale data centres, it has the very real potential to destabilise our power grid, undoing the work we’ve achieved towards net-zero.

The government has only set out plans to bring even more hyperscale data centres to Scotland rather than setting out clear regulations, ignoring the campaigners, residents, local businesses and the 24,000 signatures the Greens received on…

I’ll maintain the no compulsory redundancy commitment.

I believe that’s what our focus needs to be, while I do think accepting that in the future we will have a border poll at some stage.

We need to be prepared for this.

Scottish Labour must have a coherent answer to the question of what is the democratic route to another indyref.

If it’s another No result, then there should be an agreed timescale before there could be another one – for example, 25 years.

Winning five elections in a row is a pretty obvious statement and a second referendum should come with the defined terms.

Do we not see that competing just for a small Unionist vote is swimming in crowded waters and will never lead to us being in government?

If we ever want a Scottish Labour government in Holyrood again, then we must appeal to what was once a large chunk of our core vote that left us for the SNP.

My new Programme for Government sets out an ambitious agenda for post-school learning and development – from protecting free university tuition, expanding apprenticeships and delivering a new national skills plan, to supporting university…

Scotland's future prosperity will be built on the talent of our people, the strength of our universities and colleges, and our ability to turn world-class ideas into jobs, investment and opportunity.

I am very pleased to appoint Alyn Smith as Minister-designate for Innovation, Technology and Tertiary Education.