Only the SNP Will Protect Scotland’s Future
The SNP have called out Labour’s plans for Scotland and challenged Anas Sarwar to disown the ideas from senior members of his party.
It comes after former Labour leader in Scotland Kezia Dugdale let slip that a Labour Scottish Government would re-impose tuition fees on students.
In recent weeks, Labour MSPs in the Scottish Parliament had specifically voted against free tuition.
Since the SNP abolished Labour’s backdoor tuition fees in 2007, the number of Scottish students entering university has grown by 31% and the number of students from deprived backgrounds going to university is at record highs.
Former advisor to Tony Blair, John McTernan, has also suggested that Labour should scrap Social Security Scotland and have benefits once again delivered by the Department of Work and Pensions.
This is despite SNP Government policies delivered through Social Security Scotland, such as the Scottish Child Payment, lifting an estimated 100,000 children out of poverty this year.
The SNP is calling on Anas Sarwar to come clean over whether he would re-impose tuition fees and scrap Social Security Scotland.
The removal of tuition fees in Scotland by the SNP was a crowning achievement of the Scottish Parliament and devolution.
GRAEME
It is becoming clearer by the day that many in the Labour Party are all too keen to do away with that, just as they have done away with the rest of any progressive agenda under Keir Starmer’s direction and Anas Sarwar’s capitulation to his endless U-turns.
The Scottish Labour leader now needs to come clean with the people of Scotland on his party’s official policy on this, never mind on the outrageous idea of scrapping Social Security Scotland – that is assuming they have any polices left at this point.
Widening access to higher education is so critical and free tuition is key – this and game-changing interventions to tackle child poverty will certainly never be rolled back under the SNP.
