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As the number of probationary teachers offered full-time jobs in the state sector falls, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP has condemned Nicola Sturgeon’s record on education and called on the next First Minister to repair the core problems faced by the profession.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today urged the Scottish government to launch a nationwide emergency insulation programme as he revealed that this Scottish budget makes no more meaningful provision than the last to bring down soaring energy bills.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has challenged would-be SNP leadership contenders to look crisis-hit public services and families in the eye and recognise the harm that “relentless navel-gazing on independence” is causing.
Addressing campaigners during an action day for the Corstorphine/Murrayfield by-election, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton will say that “the time for liberal politics is now,” as he emphasised the need to end the clash of nationalisms holding Scotland back and highlighted his party’s recent successes in challenging the SNP and Conservatives.
Speaking after the First Minister’s resignation, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP has today called on the next First Minister to ditch plans for a ministerial takeover of social care, claiming that it is “doomed to fail” and urging Nicola Sturgeon’s successor to instead focus on the core problems facing staff and patients.
Responding to the news that Centrica, owner of British Gas, has made £2.8bn in profits in 2022, Scottish Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine said:
The Liberal Democrats have today published a comprehensive blueprint for replacing the broken business rates system.
