🏴 The SNP @scotgov offered NHS staff at least a 4% pay increase, giving frontline nurses an average £1,200 rise. That’s on top of our £500 thank-you payment.
🇬🇧 The UK Tory government offered a 1% rise, branded by staff and unions as “an insult”.
🏴 The SNP Scottish Government is delivering the strongest protection for children’s rights anywhere in the UK.
🇬🇧 The UK Tory government imposes a power grab and threatens to take @scotgov to court for strengthening children’s rights.
🏴 We’re working hard to tackle child poverty, with bold measures such as the Best Start Grant and the Scottish Child Payment - described as "game-changing" by charities.
🇬🇧 The UK Tories are wasting billions of pounds more to impose more nuclear weapons on the Clyde.
🏴 We've already delivered over 96,500 affordable homes - and we have a bold plan to deliver 100,000 more, with at least 70% for social rent.
🇬🇧 Boris Johnson spent £2.6m of taxpayers’ money on a Downing Street TV briefing room, as well as a “Brexit plane” and more Union flags.
🏴 We're the only party that consistently stands up for Scotland's place in Europe and Scotland's right to choose a better future with independence.
🇬🇧 The UK Tory government imposed a damaging hard Brexit on Scotland, against the democratic will of our people and Parliament.
🏴 We've already delivered many progressive policies:
🎓 Free tuition
💊 Free prescriptions
💛 Free personal care
🧒 Expanded free childcare
🏥 Record high NHS funding
🏦 Scottish National Investment Bank
🇬🇧 Much of that progress is under threat from the Westminster power grab.
🏴 The best way to protect the @ScotParl from the Tory power grab, and protect Scotland from the impact of damaging Westminster policies, is becoming an independent country.
🗳️ On May 6, make it #BothVotesSNP to secure #indyref2 and put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.
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📣 @NicolaSturgeon: “Friends, just as we have done so often in the past year, people in Scotland came together last week in a spirit of solidarity and compassion, to remember all those who have lost their lives to Covid.” #SNP21
NS: “Since the start of the pandemic, I’ve been determined never to allow the daily reporting of the numbers of Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths to be or to feel routine.” #SNP21
📣 Finance Secretary @_KateForbes: “This week we marked a somber anniversary, a year since we entered lockdown.
It was an unprecedented act of collective sacrifice for collective wellbeing & we know the impact the pandemic has had on ourselves and on our fellow citizens.” #SNP21
KF: “It has touched every aspect of our lives. So many lives lost. So many important moments forgone. So many businesses are impacted. But there is hope on the horizon.” #SNP21
Since we last came together as a party in November, we have started to see some much welcome light breaking through following 12 long months of darkness." #SNP21
KB: "And while we are entitled to look forward with renewed hope, our thoughts are still with our fellow citizens who lost loved ones during this dreadful pandemic." #SNP21
🏴 Bold announcements to end Scotland’s digital divide, supporting teachers and pupils, and tackling inequality - we're launching a campaign to deliver for Scotland.
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "My statement today will set out our next steps out of lockdown and back towards a way of life that is much closer to normality.
I intend to set out in some detail how and in what order we hope to ease restrictions between now and mid May."
NS: "And I will set out, albeit in more general terms, our expectations beyond that."
NS: "I must stress of course - because it is an inescapable fact - that being able to deliver on the plans I outline today is dependent on continued progress in suppressing the virus and rolling out vaccines."
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "Good afternoon, thanks for joining us again today. As usual, I will take you through today's statistics."
NS: "Yesterday there were 476 positive cases reported, which is 4.7% of the total number of tests and means that the total overall number of confirmed cases is now 210,008."
NS: "138 of the new cases yesterday were in Greater Glasgow & Clyde, 76 in Lanarkshire, and 70 in Lothian. The remaining cases were across 9 other health board areas."