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The SNP government has accused Labour of continuing down the path of austerity and short-changing Scots. ‌

Ministers have claimed Keir Starmer’s Government has not funded them properly and held them responsible for social ills. ‌

But the Scottish Government’s own accounts paint a confusing story. ‌

Despite receiving a record funding deal from Starmer, the SNP have under spent their budget by £1billion.

Underspends are not intrinsically a bad thing, but £1billion is a lot of money given the crisis in public services .

Around one in six Scots are on an NHS waiting list and poverty is stubbornly high. ‌

Classroom inequality remains a massive problem and council funding has been cut to the bone.

Homelessness is at outrageous levels and the government a

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