Professor John Robertson OBA

Thanks to A.M.MacJ, https://x.com/ammacj for alerting me to this.

The above from the Joseph Rowntree Trust is shocking. That in only Scotland will child poverty have reduced by the next Westminster election in 2029, is deep condemnation of the governments in the other three nations. What this means is that child poverty in Wales will be 57.8% higher and, in England, it will 44.5% higher, than in Scotland.

Remember that these percentage differences mean that more than a million out of the current total of nearly 4 million in England and more than 100 000 out of the quarter of a million in Wales, could be taken out of poverty if SNP policies were applied there – especially the Child Payment of £27.15 per child per week, lower rents, lower council tax, free bus fares, free prescriptions, free tuition and others.