Jackie Baillie has accused the SNP of leaving “a 20 year trail of broken promises” after analysis revealed that two-thirds of the party’s manifesto promises have been left by the wayside.

It has emerged that, of the 90 headline manifesto pledges made in 2021, the SNP has failed to deliver on a whopping 57 of them.

Key promises which have not been followed through, include:

• ditched plans for a National Care Service and a failure to scrap all non-residential care services
• a failure to deliver promised NHS National Treatment Centres, increase investment in mental health services or deliver free dental charges
• failed to deliver target of 100,000 affordable homes
• broken promise not to hike income taxes
• failure to roll out free wraparound childcare
• missed target to increase teacher numbers and a failure to roll out free school meals to all primary schools
• provision of a free laptop or tablet and internet connection to every school pupil in Scotland.

There are also a number of areas – such as tackling drug deaths, ending rough sleeping, closing the attainment gap and youth opportunities – where the SNP has spent millions but failed to deliver improvements or where progress has actively gone backwards.

Scottish Labour said John Swinney and the SNP have been exposed as “fraudsters” and criticised them for trying to “dupe voters” with another round of half-baked policy ideas.  

Scottish Labour’s Deputy Leader, Jackie Baillie, said: “The SNP has proved itself unreliable.

“The party has broken two-thirds of its key promises from the last election – bungling the National Care Service, driving our NHS deeper into crisis, betraying the next generation and hiking taxes on working people.

“We were promised recovery, but instead things have gone backwards and all Scotland has to show for two decades of SNP rule is a trail of broken promises.

“John Swinney and co are once again trying dupe voters this election season, with another round of half-baked policy ideas which will fall by the wayside, just like the madcap pledges made in 2021.”

Jackie, Scottish Labour’s candidate for the Dumbarton constituency, added: “Voters could be forgiven for not believing a word these fraudsters have to say after 20 years of broken promises.

“John Swinney is attempting to insult the intelligence of voters by unveiling a new raft of pledges under the guise that the SNP is going to break the habit of a lifetime and stand by them.

“The truth is the SNP cannot be trusted to keep its promises and cannot be trusted with your money.

“Scottish Labour is focused on getting the basics right and making services work again, whilst the SNP under John Swinney cook up more doomed gimmicks and empty promises.

“A Scottish Labour government will fix our NHS, create opportunities for the next generation, make our communities safer and make life more affordable.

“For a government that delivers action rather than excuses, vote Scottish Labour on May 7.”