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Swinney faces education cuts test
School children during class at a primary school, November 27, 2019
SCOTTISH Labour will take the fight to stop education cuts and save hundreds of teaching jobs across Scotland to Holyrood today.
In the first major parliamentary test for the SNP government after its coalition with the Scottish Greens ended in acrimony, First Minister John Swinney will be called on to intervene to stop education cuts across Scottish councils as they wrestle with his government’s cuts to their budgets.
Speaking ahead of the debate, Scottish Labour’s education spokeswoman Pam Duncan-Glancy said:
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