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—and on everything from the failure to close the attainment gap to the removal of hundreds of teachers from classrooms.

The First Minister also told us about changes that he is making to the ministerial code in the context of the secrecy and lack of transparency that he was responsible for during the Salmond inquiry. That is just beyond funny. What about the recommendation from James Hamilton KC that special advisers should be subject to elements of the ministerial code? Oh, no—there was nothing there at all from John Swinney.

Let me turn to health, where the SNP’s failures are the most stark—[

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.]—and Neil Gray should listen to this. [

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