Sir Keir Starmer has accused the SNP of causing “damage” to Scotland rather than improving the country.

The Prime Minister paid a visit north of the border on Thursday, and spoke to Scottish journalists at a community centre in Glasgow.

With less than six months to go before the Scottish Parliament elections which could weigh heavily on his political future, Sir Keir hit out at the SNP’s near-two decade record in power.

“John Swinney always points fingers because he never takes responsibility for his own record,” Sir Keir said.

“We’ve got an election coming up in May, they’ve been in power for a very, very long time, what he needs to do is explain what his record is.

“I don’t hear him going out there and saying ‘vote SNP because we’ve done all these things’, because he can’t say that,

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