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📺 Watch @NicolaSturgeon live on #Marr, setting our positive vision of an independent Scotland, as Day 2 of the #SNP20 begins.

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@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "We're still in the peak of the pandemic.

Every single day right now, my focus is on trying to do the best I can with my @scotgov colleagues to suppress the virus, to drive the levels down, and save lives - and we're not complacent about that." #Marr #SNP20

📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "I don't think there is any acceptable level of COVID deaths.

Across the whole of the UK, right across Europe, far more people have died from this virus than anyone would be comfortable with."

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📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "On education, on a number of indicators, we see evidence of the attainment gap closing.

We've had the record levels of investment in many areas, per pupil spending is higher than anywhere in the UK, we've got the most teachers in a decade." #SNP20 #Marr

📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "We see more people from deprived background leaving school with qualifications, Highers in particular.

The gap between people from the richest and poorest backgrounds going to university is narrowing as well."

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@NicolaSturgeon 📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "Our key focus is challenging the poverty-related attainment gap, which is why yesterday's announcement from @JohnSwinney - if re-elected, we will extend free school meals to all primary school all year round, is so important." #SNP20 #Marr

📣 @NicolaSturgeon: "I'm a democrat, and I will do the traditional, old-fashioned democratic thing.

I'm going to ask voters in May for a legal referendum to allow the people of Scotland to choose their own future. It's not for Boris Johnson to stand in the way." #SNP20 #Marr