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During the election campaign the Glasgow Times interviewed the leaders of the five main parties contesting the Scottish Parliament elections.
Alex Salmond called for 'bold and radical' action to tackle child poverty ALEX Salmond has unveiled the Alba Party's five-point plan to end child poverty. The former First Minister announced the poorest families would be given a £500 annual payment under the proposals, as well as highlighting previous pledges to increase the education maintenance allowance and the Scottish Child Payment, extend free school meals and make sports facilities free for young people. The £500 payment, the party says, will be made to every family receiving the council tax reduction for low earners, estimate...
Scotland “saved the English economy in the 1970s with our oil resources, as they were about to go cap in hand to the IMF”. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire OVER the past few months there have been numerous letters highlighting the generosity of the English Treasury in giving billions to the Scottish economy to keep us afloat during the pandemic. Could I remind them all that Scotland saved the English economy in the 1970s with our oil resources, as they were about to go cap in hand to the IMF? At that time, had we not been lied to about the life of our oil resources, we could have been ...
Blame game: Row over who is responsible as 'shocking' rise in Scots food bank use is laid bare Blame game: Row over who is responsible as 'shocking' rise in Scots food bank use is laid bare The SNP has and the Scottish Conservatives are at loggerheads over who is to blame as a charity said it had been handing out the equivalent of nearly one emergency food parcel ever seven minutes to Scots children during the pandemic. Some 220,000 emergency food parcels have gone out at Scots food banks run by the Trussell Trust charity between April 2020 and March 2021 - a 63% rise on this time fi...
Letters GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - APRIL 15: Scotland's First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, launches the SNP Election Manifesto during campaigning for the Scottish Parliamentary election on April 15, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. MANIFESTOS, what are the public to make of them? It is difficult to judge parties who have not been in power and cannot implement their manifesto promises, however we do have parties elected to government and we can judge them on their manifesto commitments. On Thursday we had the launch of a party manifesto from a party who has been ...