📣 After being re-elected as First Minister, @NicolaSturgeon has appointed the new, gender-balanced Scottish Cabinet.
🏴 We are ready to deliver the bold policies to drive Scotland's recovery.
👇 Scroll down on this thread to see who's in the Cabinet.
📣 Deputy First Minister @JohnSwinney is also appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Covid Recovery to build back a better Scotland after the pandemic.
💷 @_KateForbes takes on an expanded brief as Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy, driving forward our plans to build a thriving, more prosperous nation.
📢 @Ianblackford_MP: “Thank you, Mr Speaker and can I thank the Prime Minister for his comments on the Ballymurphy inquest.” #PMQs
📢 @Ianblackford_MP: "Mr Speaker, as a member of Scotland’s crofting community, I understand just how disastrous a Brexit trade deal with Australia, as proposed by this Tory government, would be for Scotland’s farming and crofting sectors." #PMQs
📢 @Ianblackford_MP: "If reports of this Tory deal are true, farmers will lose their livelihoods, rural businesses will collapse, and ultimately, families will be driven off the land.
And let’s be very clear. If that happens, this UK Tory government will be solely responsible."
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "Good afternoon. Now, due to the election campaign, the last time I stood here to give you a Covid briefing was three weeks ago..."
NS: ".., so I'm glad, today, to be able to provide a full update, and most importantly, to set out our decisions on the next steps forward."
NS: "My remarks today will therefore necessarily be slightly longer than usual, so please bear with me - and thank you to everybody who has tuned in today."
📢 @NicolaSturgeon: “When the SNP first entered government back in 2007, we secured just one more seat than the Labour Party.
Few people back then could have predicted that 14 years on, the SNP would be re-elected for a fourth consecutive term as Scotland’s government.” #SNPWin
📢 @NicolaSturgeon: “And absolutely no-one then would have predicted the sheer scale and record-breaking nature of our victory at this election.
We have won 62 constituency seats - a record number and an incredible 85% of the total.” #SNPWin
📣 @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