The Queen has officially reopened the UK Parliament and highlighted the UK government’s priorities. In a ten minute speech to the House of Lords, we learned of 30 laws that UK ministers

intend to pass in the coming year. Laws which will be implemented by a government Scotland didn’t vote for, but with far-reaching consequences for all of us. The Queen’s Speech completely

failed to deliver the investment and fundamental change we need, and instead the Tories are imposing long-term damage of cuts, Brexit and a power grab against Scotland’s will. > Boris 

Johnson must respect the will of the Scottish people, who > voted for a choice over our future in a post-pandemic referendum. >  > Scotland is on a different political path. We want

and a “savings and efficiency review” of public services – which means cuts, cuts and more cuts to public services. Instead of building a fairer society and implementing an investment-led

recovery, the Tories are entrenching inequality and pushing people into poverty. By comparison, the SNP is looking to rebuild our economy in an investment-led recovery as set out in our

manifesto, and unlike this Tory government – the SNP manifesto has the support of the Scottish people. The SNP’s policy programme will move our country forward – making it fairer, greener

and more prosperous. The First Minister is already back at work and getting on with the job and our alternative is already in action. With health and social care services having been on the

front line of the pandemic, the newly elected SNP Government will now deliver a 20% increase in frontline NHS spending – a total of £2.5 billion. And while this Tory Government dithers and

delays on reforms to social care, the new SNP Government will move to establish a National Care Service, backed by a 25% increase in social care investment. This will include significant

investment in the staff themselves. > 💛 If re-elected, the SNP will deliver a National Care Service for > Scotland. >  > 🗳 Make it #BothVotesSNP TOMORROW to re-elect 

@NicolaSturgeon as > First Minister and put Scotland’s recovery in Scotland’s hands. > pic.twitter.com/wqMNZPpFHH >  > — The SNP (@theSNP) May 5, 2021 Unlike the insult of 1%

offer offered by the Tories, in Scotland NHS staff have been offered an average 4% pay increase, and the new National Care Service, backed by £800 million, will enable the government to

offer a National Living Wage for all care staff. To invest in the next generation, the SNP Government will invest £1 billion over the next parliament to close the school attainment gap, and

recruit 3500 additional teachers and classroom assistants, while this Tory government had to be shamed by a professional footballer into providing free school meals. In contrast the Scottish

Government will get on with providing free school breakfast and lunches to every primary school pupil, year-round, and a device for every child in Scotland to get online. For families, the

SNP Scottish government will build a wraparound childcare system, to help support working parents – with the least well-off families paying nothing. And whilst this Tory Government threatens

to rip away the lifeline of the £20 a week uplift to Universal Credit – the new SNP Government will double the game changing Scottish Child Payment over the life of the parliament. We are

living in unprecedented times and this Queen’s Speech was a wasted opportunity. It could now not be clearer that Scotland is on a completely different political path to Westminster. Once the

crisis has passed, Boris Johnson must respect the will of the Scottish people to determine our own future in a post-pandemic independence referendum, so we can make the long-term changes

needed for a strong recovery and a fairer country. > 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The people of Scotland have spoken – > it’s an SNP landslide. >  > ✅ Highest number of votes > ✅ Highest number of

 constituency seats ever > ✅ Highest vote share ever in a Scottish election >  > 👇 Once we rebuild Scotland from COVID, there will be an > independence referendum. 

pic.twitter.com/k5Oq4hndh1 >  > — The SNP (@theSNP) May 8, 2021