Swinney says he is 'raring to go' for election in final FMQ session

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John Swinney declared he is “raring to go” for the Holyrood election as he came under fire from his rivals at First Minister’s Questions for the last time before the May vote.The First Minister hit back as the Tories claimed he had been at “the heart” of a “dishonest, incompetent and sleazy SNP Government for almost two decades.Labour joined in the attack, claiming that after the May 7 Scottish election the next five years “must be about recovery from John Swinney and the failing SNP”.The clashes came as Holyrood sat for the final time ahead of the voters going to the polls in six weeks’ time.

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00:00President officer, I just want to reassure Russell Finlay, in case he's worried about the energy about the next few

00:07weeks,

00:08I'm just raring to go for the forthcoming election and to win it well for Scotland.

00:16And as for all the pile of abuse that he's just spouted out, which he spouts out every week,

00:23let me just remind him what I reminded him of last week.

00:26The majority of taxpayers in Scotland pay less tax than if they lived in England under an SNP government.

00:37And the international credit rating agencies complimented...

00:41Oh, they don't like that.

00:43Oh, they don't like this.

00:46Let's hear one another.

00:48Because the international credit ratings agencies complimented the prudent financial management of Scotland.

00:58And the only person that's got any explaining to do in this parliament about their stance on fiscal recklessness

01:05is Russell Finlay for telling me to follow Liz Truss.

01:09What a disaster that was.

01:11Oh, thank you, I've gotten to ask me to respond.

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