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In the past, I worked with 54 local authorities, and I am working with another 32. I am at date 28 of a 32-date tour of meetings with every local authority chief executive, which is taking place on top of a lot of other touring.
By the end of the decade, an annual £4 billion in benefits will be cut from Scotland, which will push people into debt and rent arrears. The use of food banks will increase and many more folk will be pushed into crisis.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Bank and the Shanghai university tables make it plain that success is greatest in the nations in which Governments are less rather than more involved.