SCOTLAND’S recovery from coronavirus will be the top priority for ministers in the coming years, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said today as she laid out her government’s legislative plans for the new parliamentary term.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the programme, the first since a co-operation deal was agreed by the SNP and the Scottish Greens, was short on big ideas, arguing that the country needed a much more radical set of legislative proposals. 

He branded the programme “tired and rehashed,” accused the SNP of lacking ambition and said that Scotland’s recovery from the pandemic was being held back as a result. Mr Sarwar also reiterated calls for an increase in the Scottish child payment.