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Scottish Conservative candidate Harriet Cross claims the SNP “don’t have a plan for bringing Aberdeen forward”, despite the city facing a “huge hole” in employment.
The 30-year-old, who is standing for Aberdeen Donside in next month’s Holyrood election, says it is beginning to “really hit home that the north-east is being left behind”.
The chartered surveyor, who grew up in Braemar before moving to England to study and work for eight years, later returning to Aberdeen in 2018, would like to see more young people attracted to stay in the north-east.
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Sean Robertson, a NHS worker and anti-cuts campaigner from Easter Ross has been announced as the lead candidate for the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) on the Highlands and Islands regional list:
“A GMB member I am an experienced anti-austerity and socialist campaigner, having led the successful Highlands anti-bedroom tax campaign. Currently I am fighting as part of the national for fair pay for NHS workers.
Headline policies in the Scottish TUSC manifesto include:
increasing the minimum wage to 12p/h as a step towards £15;
a 15 per cent pay rise and minimum £15 per hour minimum wage for all health and social care workers;