Tomorrow’s hotly contested election in Scotland is a close race to call, and slim chance of an outright majority. Can public transport seal the deal?
According to the co-leader of the Scottish Green Party, the SNP could see the doors to power re-open for them — as a minority government — in exchange for some key promises.
Green leader Gillian Mackay has suggested the idea of working with the Scottish National Party was not off the table following tomorrow’s results. In contrast, a deal with Scottish Labour was a no-no due to their stance on immigration.
However, support would only be offered to the SNP if they in turn agreed to back key Green policies. For example, the introduction of free buses across the country and an expansion in childcare. The party has played a significant role in helping the SNP retain power, with recent polling suggesting an election win is on the cards for the incumbent government, but this unlikely to be a majority.
‘Our two big manifesto priorities that we’ve been talking about on the campaign trail are around free buses for everyone, making sure that people can get around their communities and make public transport their first option,’ Mackay told the Press Association in an interview late-April.
‘And free childcare, the biggest expansion of free childcare in a generation, making sure that particularly women can get back into the workplace, and that families aren’t having to spend the majority of their income on childcare,’ she continued.
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