First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "On a basic matter of democracy, I believe it is for the people of Scotland to choose their own future. I'll argue that case in a democratic election." #FMQs
NS: "People will have the ability to decide in the way that they vote. If they endorse my view that there should be a referendum on independence, people will then have the right to choose Scotland's future." #FMQs
NS: "Fundamentally, I believe in democracy. I think we now know that Ruth Davidson doesn't." #FMQs
NS: "Can I say to Ruth Davidson, not only am I perfectly willing and happy to have questions asked of me about my record, my policies, and my plans, I'm happy to allow the Scottish people to judge that in an election." #FMQs
NS: "Instead, we have Ruth Davidson, who wants to continue to be a politician, but without the consent of a single person across this country." #FMQs
NS: "She's heading to an unelected parliament, but has the brass neck to lecture the rest of us on scrutiny and accountability. There is no ermine cloak in the world will cover up that hypocrisy." #FMQs
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JS: “I’m the first to acknowledge that we face challenges in our health service as a consequence of the aftermath of COVID and the aftermath and the implications that’s had on the amount of time that people are having to wait.”
JS: “I’m sorry for the amount of time that people are having to wait for treatment. We are reducing the longest-waits’ and we’re making headway in that.”
📣 First Minister @HumzaYousaf at #FMQs: "You can judge a man by the company he keeps, and Douglas Ross's company is Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party of Liz Truss, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, formerly Lee Anderson, Mark Menzies, Peter Bone, Chris Pincher..."
HY: "Andrew Bridgen, Frank Hester...and I can see Douglas Ross looking more and more embarrassed. That's the company he keeps. I'm very proud of John Swinney, Kate Forbes, and all the company I keep." #FMQs
HY: "Our anti-poverty measures, they are estimated to lift 100,000 children out of poverty this year - in very stark contrast to the Conservatives." #FMQs
First Minister @HumzaYousaf at #FMQs: "Douglas Ross says we all have a zero tolerance approach to hate crime. I'm not entirely convinced, when you take money from a racist misogynist and then refuse to give it back, that is a zero tolerance approach whatsoever."
HY: "Those stirring-up offences for racial hatred have existed since 1986. We are simply extending those offences to other marginalised groups." #FMQs
HY: "I think it's important for Douglas Ross to be honest, to tell people, who is it he thinks is not deserving of those protections, in the same way I've been protected because of my race since 1986?" #FMQs
.@MhairiBlack: "For two reasons I think we should scrap the Rwanda policy all together.
First of all, from a moral compass. I think it is a barbaric system, there is no such thing as an illegal human being - especially not those who are fleeing war and persecution." #bbcqt
.@MhairiBlack: "Even if you just look at it from a financial argument. The UK Gov'ts own figures show that the taxpayer will pay £169,000 per migrant - that's to send one person to Rwanda.
It's going to cost £1.8bn to deport all 11,000 people that have arrived this year." #bbcqt
@MhairiBlack .@MhairiBlack: "If the Tories are serious about spending money in good places, it would have been a good idea over the last decade not to keep implementing austerity, not to hand out COVID contracts out to their pals for PPE that wasn't fit." #bbcqt