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It has taken Herculean effort just to have erected a statue for Mary Barbour and her rent strikers. Those things are the history of a nation and a class, and are things that all our young people should know.
That is a very good point, and I thank Mary Fee for raising it. All institutions continue to grapple with the fact that, under the Equality Act 2010, we have an anticipatory duty.
The evidence is that Labour hasnae thought it through any more carefully this time. 15:58 Like Mary Scanlon, I will not be standing again in the coming election.
Again, though, that will depend on what happens across the UK—Mary Scanlon referred to Northern Ireland and Wales—although regardless of that, we could still have more decision making in Scotland.
On the other important issues that Mary Scanlon raises, in essence, I think that she is touching on the work that we are doing on the national improvement framework.
We have seen that poverty is increasing as a result of the Westminster Government’s austerity agenda. Mary Scanlon spoke passionately about the numbers, but she forgets that in those figures are children who are suffering under her Government’s austerity regime.