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UP TO 35,000 first-time buyers were told yesterday that the SNP's promise to give each of them a GBP 2,000 grant to help buy a house had been ditched.
The SNP went into last year's election with a clear pledge to provide the grant to help people get on to the property ladder.See the full content of this document
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Another Pledge Bites the Dust
But Nicola Sturgeon, the health and wellbeing secretary, performed an embarrassing policy U-turn when she told MSPs this manifesto pledge has been dropped. Her opponents derided the Scottish Government for breaking "yet another" manifesto commitment, claiming that ministers had already reneged on plans to cut primary school class sizes, provide nursery teachers for every child and write off student debt.
Other key policies, such as introdu...See the full content of this document
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