David Bol attends John Swinney's 'whole family support' child poverty speech in Glasgow

The Scotsman

First Minister John Sinney delivered a speech on using 'whole family support' to eradicate child poverty at the SEC in Glasgow before taking questions from journalists on Donald Trump's paracetamol comments, Jamie Hepburn's resignation and the threaof Russia

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00:00Hi, I'm David Bowle, the Scotsman's Deputy Political Editor. I'm here at the SEC in Glasgow

00:04where John Swinney has been giving a speech to lots of third sector organisations who will play

00:11a very important role in eradicating poverty, one of John Swinney and his government's central

00:15missions. He was talking today about having a kind of full family support package for people to try

00:22and lift children out of poverty. It's one of John Swinney's four top priorities in government.

00:28He has some quite ambitious targets to meet and although Scotland is reducing poverty where other

00:36parts of the UK are not, it's not being reduced by the kind of rates that is needed to hit those

00:41targets. He needs to take out another 100,000 children out of poverty by 2030 to reach that

00:48target. He kind of thinks this wraparound support package is going to play a big role. I asked if

00:53we would see some more transformational changes in the upcoming budget and he said some of that

00:58change has already been delivered. I don't know if opposition parties would agree with that.

01:02He was also asked in the huddle by journalists after his speech about some of the comments Donald Trump

01:09has made about paracetamol. Given the fact that they are quite pally now, John Swinney and the US

01:15President, he was quite critical of those comments, unsurprisingly, and some made by Nigel Farage this

01:22morning as well. He also was asked about Jamie Hepburn, the minister who quit last week after the

01:28sort of quite silly row with Douglas Ross and basically just said that all ministers need to

01:34behave properly, maybe a bit, losing a bit of patience with some of the actions of his minister.

01:40Lately today at Holyrood, we are seeing the housing bill go through parliament. There'll be hundreds of

01:46amendments put to that. It was discussed very late last night yesterday. The same will happen today

01:51and it may even go into next week where we're going to see quite a lot of big things brought

01:56forward. Controversial, contentious things like rent controls that have been talked about since the

02:00pandemic will finally get resolved. To catch up all the latest news from the politics team at

02:05Scotswim, visit scotswim.com or pick up a paper.

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