SNP manifesto 2024: what money policies did John Swinney announce?

The SNP manifesto has been launched in Scotland, and makes several key commitments, including a pledge to end austerity and a commitment to rejoin the EU.

John Swinney holds the SNP manifesto aloft at its launch in Edinburgh (Photographer: Emily Macinnes/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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John Swinney has launched the SNP manifesto for the 2024 general election in Edinburgh, with Scottish independence, austerity and Brexit high up on its agenda.

 The party, which has been in charge of the Scottish government since 2007, has promised that it would move to open independence negotiations with the UK government should it secure a majority of seats north of the border. It also wants to end the “Westminster consensus” of public service cuts, as well as rejoin the EU.

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Henry Sandercock has spent more than eight years as a journalist covering a wide variety of beats. Having studied for an MA in journalism at the University of Kent, he started his career in the garden of England as a reporter for local TV channel KMTV.

Henry then worked at the BBC for three years as a radio producer - mostly on BBC Radio 2 with Jeremy Vine, but also on major BBC Radio 4 programmes like The World at One, PM and Broadcasting House. Switching to print media, he covered fresh foods for respected magazine The Grocer for two years.

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