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It will require a lot of trying to organise these things in the best way possible. We have seen pictures of the London tube, which have caused great concern.
It makes me immensely proud to join other members in wearing a unity band, which shows the solidarity and unified approach that best represent how we should tackle the disease.
Given that—as I said—the result of the general election is that we are leaving the EU, I take it that the Scottish Government will push for an exit from the EU that best protects Scotland’s interests by having much closer alignment to the customs union and the single market.
At the same time, we need to ask whether we are really doing our best to create a society in which women and girls are not silently bearing the burden of violence and inequality in their physical and mental health.
Linking MSPs’ salaries to an index seemed to be the best way of avoiding that. It was then a question of which indexes to use—as you will be well aware, there are a number.
We feel that statutory guidance, along with protection orders—which we already have in child protection and other aspects of adult protection—is best. Professionals then know exactly what they need to do and when and how they need to do it.
We have said that we want Scotland to be the best place in the world to grow up. That means that we want Scotland to be the safest place in the world to grow up.