Swinney will always put SNP above country, says Sarwar

Evening Standard

John Swinney will always put the SNP before the country, Anas Sarwar has claimed.The Scottish Labour leader was speaking at a press conference in Glasgow on Monday, setting out his party’s plans for reforming transparency in government if he becomes first minister after May’s election.Mr Sarwar pledged to release what he called the “Salmond files”, a tranche of documents the Government is currently fighting in court not to release.

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00:00I saw you at my granny's house, how are you?

00:08What was he doing with your pandemic?

00:09It was due to the pandemic, he went to a really lovely profile of Blackhane.

00:14Oh!

00:14It was the pandemic.

00:21John Swinney almost knew SMP first and the people of Scotland second.

00:27And yes, we had a stark example with the salmon pirates, but we had an even stark example

00:33where two children at least lost their lives before they went to the hospital.

00:37And the government chose secrecy, cover, and trying to hide the truth

00:43rather than do the right thing by those patients and those families.

00:46The serious and devastating consequences of an SMP obsession to protect itself above anything else,

00:54to waste public money and to hide the truth, frankly, is dangerous.

00:58It shows why we can't risk a third decade of SMP in John Swinney as first minister.

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