Scot Lib Dem News

• Poll shows SNP can’t duck and dive forever on independence answers
  The latest poll on independence show that the SNP cannot duck and dive on the hard questions about separation.

• Government should take up radical suggestions to help new farmers
  The Scottish Government should make more effort to attract new entrants to farming

• Retailers and public sector should insist on British standards for eggs
  The Scottish Liberal Democrats are urging the public sector and major retailers to support Scottish farmers by insisting on British welfare standards for the eggs that they buy.

• Rennie praises sense and urges Scottish Government to make quick decision on trams
  I am immensely relieved that sense has prevailed. The Scottish Government should now quickly confirm they will fund the St Andrews Square scheme so that we can crack on with construction. Any further delays will just rack up the price even higher.

• Jim Hume: More changes for new tenant farmers needed
  Not all Forestry Commission land is suitable for planting trees. It makes sense for it to be used to help new-entrant farmers. I have met too many prospective farmers who are struggling to get access to farm tenancies at the moment.

• Willie Rennie responds to the death of the sister of Tricia Marwick MSP
  Speaking in response to news that the sister of Holyrood Presiding Officer Tricia Marick has died in a house fire, the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats and former Dunfermline MP Willie Rennie said:

  “This is so sad. My thoughts are with Tricia and her family. I am sure the whole Parliament will be thinking of her today.”

• McInnes questions why health ministers will avoid a third of Scotland in reviews
  Given the real problems in the way the NHS is able to deliver ministers’ election promises it is astonishing that ministers have chosen to bypass the health boards who serve a third of Scots this year.

• Willie Rennie supports efforts to tackle booze culture
  This report confirms that now is the time to increase the price of alcohol to help cut consumption. Too many people drink too much alcohol too often.

• Willie Rennie: Scottish government makes the right call on trams
  The Scottish Government decision to reject the Haymarket option is the right call. Sense seems to be breaking out all round. I hope all parties on the council will now back the profitable St. Andrews Square scheme.

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