Month: April 2021
FACT CHECK: Scotland in Union claim SNP have cut 22,000 council jobs
Would an independent Scotland ‘start out with a large budget deficit’?
FACT CHECK: SNP’s four-day week plan would cost taxpayers £3bn a year
FACT CHECK: Jackie Baillie’s claim that money meant for the NHS was used elsewhere
CLAIM “Nicola Sturgeon failed to pass on the full Barnett consequentials to the NHS … so we now face the twin challenges of recovering from the very immediate crisis created by Covid-19, while restoring our NHS after a decade of mounting problems and underfunding” – Jackie Baillie, Labour health spokesperson, commentating on IFS paper published on April 14. Source