Former prime minister Gordon Brown has blasted the SNP Government for failing to put up taxes to fund the NHS.
Speaking at Liberton High School in Edinburgh yesterday, Brown warned the Scottish Government’s failure to propose income tax rises was a sign it cannot cope with the health service.
He said: “Who would you trust with the NHS … the Labour Party that was prepared to go to the people of the country, as I had to do at the beginning of the century, and say ‘We have to raise taxes/national insurance so that we can pay for a better health service in the future?’
“Or the SNP or any other party in Scotland, who have never bothered to ask the Scottish people to put more money into the NHS?
“Their only policy during the referendum was to cut corporation tax for the richest companies in Scotland by 3p, and the biggest beneficiaries would have been SSE and the other privatised utilities.”
Mr Brown, who will stand down tomorrow, also warned that the SNP is offering
one hand of friendship to the rest of the UK with a fist behind its back to deliver the “knockout blow to break Britain apart”.
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