John Swinney made his pitch to voters to return him as First Minister – offering Scots more than £500 million of spending on boosting childcare for families, along with cash deposits to help first-time buyers get on the property ladder.
But he also insisted May’s Holyrood elections could be part of an “absolutely seismic moment” where, for the first time, the leaders of all the devolved nations in the UK could be “committed to independence from the UK”.
