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Scottish National Party launch their manifesto
20 Apr 2010
The Scottish National Party (SNP) launched their manifesto in Glasgow this morning with leader Alex Salmond urging voters to “achieve a balanced parliament“. Salmond dismissed the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat “clear cut agendas“ and asked Scottish voters to “elect a local champion“.
Salmond stated that the SNP would protect spending on education, health and jobs and focus efforts on narrowing the gap between “the haves and the have nots “in society, eliminating child poverty.
Proposed education reforms include: increasing the number of free hours nursery education; cutting class sizes to 18 or less in primary school; and the investment of £1.25 billion in new and refurbished schools. The SNP would also offer further learning to every young person as they reach the end of their compulsory school years through the 16+ Learning Choices initiative.
Speaking of the newly released manifesto, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers union said: The commitment to widening participation in post-16 learning, cutting class sizes and investing in new school buildings represents an ambitious program that can only be delivered through a coherent economic plan for the whole of the UK”.
The full manifesto can be foundt here.
