THE Scottish Tories effectively gave up defending Ruth Davidson’s seat against the SNP at the Holyrood election, official spending figures suggest. Despite the then-Tory leader winning the Edinburgh Central constituency in 2016, her party was outspent by the SNP and a Scottish Labour long-shot in May. Returns filed by the candidates also show the Scottish Greens virtually abandoned the pitch in Edinburgh Central after splitting the vote and helping the Tories win five years ago. Their spending fell 98 per cent compared to 2016. It followed warnings from the SNP not to vote Green in case history repeated itself. Edinburgh was the most intense political battleground in Scotland in May, with half of its six seats Unionist-held marginals which were heavily targeted by the SNP.
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Humza Yousaf pictured on his way to Bute House last week to be named the new Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care. NOW we have a new Government and Health Secretary it is timely that Professor David Kerr reminds us of his radical plan for the Scottish NHS of 15 years ago ( Progress has not come far enough, says NHS reforms academic , The Herald, May 24). Furthermore when the NHS absorbs almost 45 per cent of the Government’s budget one might consider that in Scotland we have a health service with a Government attached. Yet little notice of the ongoing failures in the health service were considered important by the electorate if recent voting patterns are interpreted.