starmer was visiting greenock last friday he talked about the damaging conflicts ongoing between the uk and the scottish government and he pledged to improve that relationship should he become prime minister. do you commit to working with him on that, on that toxicity that we have seen, even if he suggests it ends up denting the support of independents? i have been engaged with intergovernmental relationships with the government for many years and i have had many occasions where that has been successful and constructive and many where it has been difficult and many where it has been difficult and we have not been able to get agreement. for most of the time that has been a respectful environment. i would say that my experience of the gordon brown government, the cameron and clegg government, the following cameron government and the theresa may governments were generally on issues that affected people prosper but lives pretty constructive. i have to say, i was part of those dis
secretary said she believed a lot of the reasons for that was the covid pandemic, putting limits on the health care system and the construction industry. she spoke about the small number of new hospitals that have opened and said more would be opening soon. that is a pledge they are maybe not going quite as big one as they did in 2019, but nevertheless one they want to have inverters mines as well. the labour party when discussing said they thought it was more broken promises from the conservatives. the lib dems are also talking about health today. they are talking about giving up to £1 billion to local authorities for the sort of health services they carry out, like health checks and health visits and blood pressure visits. they say that £1 billion would be raised from cracking down on tax avoidance. that is a pot of money we have heard quite a lot about in this election campaign so far, all of the party is looking to the money they think they can recoup from the tax avoidance they