Scottish National Party MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw
Entered the Scottish Parliament on 6 May 2011 — Election
Also represented Central Scotland
I have spoken many times in the chamber during challenge poverty weeks, and I am very disappointed that my calls this year are pretty much exactly the same as those that I have made in previous years, because there has been no change with the new UK Government. Back in 2019, figures showed that, across Lanarkshire’s seven Westminster constituencies, more than 6,500 families were...
Unfortunately, the first thing that Labour did to address the £20 billion hole that it found—although everybody told it that it was there in the first place—was to put the burden on the poorest people, such as pensioners. What about taxing the rich? What about putting the burden on those with the broadest shoulders?
No, I will not take another intervention. The Labour Party used to value universalism. It is the party that introduced the national health service, free at the point of use, that introduced child benefit as a universal benefit and that introduced the universal state pension, adopting the Beveridge report principles. Our pensioners have been poorly served by successive...
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