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The caption under the picture reads: “MSP Baillie denies Labour disunity—A Holyrood politician denies there are rifts between Labour MSPs and MPs and insists they are ‘joined at the hip’”.
The first question will come from an MSP to get things going, but I remind MSPs that the preference will always be to hear from the witnesses throughout this evidence-taking session.
Two comments by the union’s Scottish secretary, John Duffy, were mentioned by SNP MSPs on Tuesday, as if to imply that somehow the union is content with the closure proposals.
I thought that the Labour Party might have supported that. In recent weeks, Labour MSPs have suggested spending additional resources on building more homes, the NHS, climate change and local government, for example.
However, people will notice that committee members, clerks and others are using electronic devices instead of hard copies of our papers. I welcome Patrick Harvie MSP, who joins us for agenda item 4.