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New Labour-style disdain for hospital patients
Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman
by Roger D Harris and John Perry
VINCE MILLS says Scottish Labour has adopted better positions than its Westminster counterpart — but unless it starts to fight for them that will count for nothing
Labour MSP CAROL MOCHAN calls for Britain to follow France’s lead and recognise the Palestinian state as part of efforts to end this war
A Chilean court ruled that funds were illegally taken by the dictator to accumulate family wealth that is now disputed among his heirs, writes PABLO MERIGUET
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
SCOTLAND’S Health Secretary doesn’t hold the easiest of briefs. The previous one, Shona Robison, eventually ceded to calls for her resignation amid a series of NHS scandals and missed targets — the most serious of which covered her own constituency.
Her successor Jeane Freeman was called a “liar” by Labour’s Neil Findlay over the mesh cancer treatment scandal.
After being thrown out of Holyrood’s debating chamber, Findlay charged: “Either she lied about instructing her officials to investigate reintroducing mesh implants or is so incompetent she does not have a clue what is going on inside her own department.”
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