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I went to Bearsden academy, where the careers teacher only spoke about Singers or John Brown & Company—that is all that they knew about, and both closed down.
I am sorry—I am sure that we will hear from Keith Brown later. These are the same failings, the same incompetence and the same focus on the wrong priorities.
In the hotels in Glasgow during Covid, people did not go down in the morning and say, “I’d like brown toast instead of white, marmalade and porridge, and I’d like bacon with my fried egg.”
I have had conversations with the Lord Advocate, the Lord President and the cabinet secretary Keith Brown about that. Recovery will take some time if we want to see better outcomes at the end of that work.
There is no point in having a justice secretary who is not prepared to stand up for human rights and hold the police to account when things go wrong, yet we have exactly that in Keith Brown. He avoids answering questions about human rights abuses, and he has nothing to say about Police Scotland providing political cover and legitimacy to those human rights ...
Many of us were concerned about the lack of focus, and those concerns have been repeated today by Gavin Brown. Many of us were also concerned about the lack of priorities, which most Opposition members have mentioned today.
We must, as Fergus Ewing and Robert Brown said, ensure that the system focuses on the cases that need to be dealt with, with others perhaps being addressed in different ways.
In a minute, I will ask my colleague Charles Brown to go through how we got there, but I completely appreciate the point about not being able to include a figure.