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    What does the SNP manifesto promise and can those pledges be fulfilled?

    by Craig Paton Jun 19, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: PA Wire

    First Minister John Swinney has unveiled his party’s manifesto in Edinburgh, with the SNP looking to keep its stranglehold on Scottish politics.

    Here, the PA news agency looks at some of the key questions around the party’s proposals.

    – What is in the SNP manifesto?

    is front and centre in the 33-page document. Mr Swinney committed to putting it “page one, line one”, and it reiterates the party’s position of seeking to give “democratic

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