Rennie responds to Swinney's poverty comments

Responding to John Swinney claiming that the SNP Government can still achieve its legally binding target to reduce child poverty to 10% by 2030, despite almost a quarter of children currently living in poverty and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warning that the target "will almost certainly" be missed, Scottish Liberal Democrat Willie Rennie MSP said:

“All the evidence shows that this target will soon become yet another SNP broken promise.

“The SNP have had 17 years to move the dial, but now almost a quarter of children are in poverty and there are record numbers of children in temporary accommodation.

“Ministers are threatening to make that situation even worse by slashing the housing budget and ditching their promise to roll out free school meals for all primary school pupils.

“If John Swinney wants to eradicate child poverty, he should be backing up targets with action that will make a difference.”