If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
From Nicola Sturgeon
The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.
Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.
People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.
The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.
Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.
I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.
The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.
If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'
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