Protecting the health and wellbeing of people in Scotland

 

Yesterday, the Prime Minister addressed Scottish Conservative Conference – setting out how we all need to work together at this time to protect the health and jobs of people in Scotland.

  • The Prime Minister expressed his thanks to everyone in Scotland for all their efforts over this most extraordinary and trying of years. We must never forget what we have achieved through cooperation – through working across the whole of our United Kingdom. 
     
  • The unparalleled effort that has protected the jobs of over 900,000 Scottish workers through our furlough and self-employed support schemes, and which has helped almost 80,000 Scottish businesses that have been backed by Government grants and loans. And it’s not just the heft of the UK Treasury that has supported us through this pandemic, it has been the collective endeavours of people across the UK. 
     
  • The way the SNP have handled devolution in Scotland has been a disaster – from plummeting education standards, low business confidence and the lowest satisfaction in public services ever – their record is abysmal. At this time there simply no room for division or distraction over the constitution. In order for us to tackle the shared and common threat that is coronavirus, the focus separation must end - and for it to end, so must the division.

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