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CAROL MOCHAN argues that a new report from the Scottish Parliament’s health, social care and sport committee that reveals endemic and deepening poverty also demonstrates that the SNP are still failing to act on inequality

BRITAIN is looking down the barrel of historic economic decline and Scotland is no exception to that.

Despite their claims to be “standing up for Scotland,” the recklessness of the Tories at Westminster has been met with a period of relative inactivity from the SNP at Holyrood. Yes, the First Minister and her government clearly did not agree with slashing the top rate of tax, but we heard little to nothing about anything they would do to mitigate its effects.

This has come as no shock to many of us however: inactivity and laying low have been the calling cards of the SNP for years. Nowhere is that more acutely obvious than the state of our NHS.

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