Rennie comments on Swinney speech

Responding to the First Minister’s embargoed speech ahead of the upcoming budget, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said:

“Over the last seventeen years SNP ministers have castigated opponents and shifted blame to everyone else so they will have to go some to convince us they are now imbued with consensus and compromise.    

“The SNP often reach out for support when they are in trouble and that’s certainly true now.  There is a lot to fix with a sluggish economy, an NHS with huge waits, a social care sector on its knees and an education system under great stress.

“We will work in good faith because we do need to pass a budget but the SNP will need to make an offer that is big enough to make it possible for us to support.”