I chaired a packed-out public meeting in South Queensferry last night to discuss next steps in our efforts to stop antisocial car racing in the Ferry. Good input from Police Scotland - 4 cars seized and crushed in recent months.

"I believe that the changes that are being introduced following on from the recent court of appeal judgement risk hollowing out a crucial emergency service." @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social

The SNP government has never once met the cancer waiting times target in the 13 years since it was introduced. Getting seen in good time can be lifesaving in cancer cases, so the failure to meet this target is doubly concerning. We urgently need to turn this situation around.

Metallica killed it at Hampden tonight. 🤘

Our schools should be a safe place for pupils and staff alike. The Scottish Government previously produced an action plan on behaviour in schools, but is clear from these increasing figures that it is not working.

Andy Burnham must commit to dropping Labour's harmful red lines on Brexit. It is costing the UK £90bn a year. It's time for a bold new deal with Europe to boost growth, create jobs and keep our country safe.

Scottish Liberal Democrats stood in the way of the business rates wrecking ball and secured £178m in the budget to help linchpins of the high street like pubs and restaurants. It’s a start, but we absolutely need to go further and reform business rates.

People across Scotland are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of Prime Ministers, while nothing really changes for them. Whoever becomes Prime Minister needs to end the chaos and focus on getting the country back on track.

Hate fuelled and targeted racial violence has no place whatsoever in our nation’s capital or anywhere else. I’m hugely grateful to our first responders and my thoughts are with all those who have been impacted by today’s horrific and unacceptable attacks.

Tonight we are all John McGinn. Come on Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"If we are going to kickstart our economy and trade then we need to focus on what works – and what does not. Just this week another report by the Centre for European Reform confirmed that Brexit had reduced trade in almost every sector of our economy." @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social

This week marks 9 years since the Grenfell fire. Only 149 out of 1,000 buildings in Scotland suspected of having dangerous cladding have been investigated. Staggeringly, cladding removal is is underway in only 3 buildings in this country.

This week marks the 9th anniversary of the Grenfell fire. Across Scotland, there are almost 1,000 buildings suspected of having dangerous cladding. Yet the Scottish Government has only got around to investigating 149 of them.

Brexit is costing us £90bn a year. That’s why we are calling for a bold new deal with Europe to boost growth, create jobs and keep our country safe. It’s the first step towards giving our children a better future, fixing the cost of living and getting our country back on track.

Many highland schools are struggling to recruit permanent staff, yet at the same time the conditions that PSAs face are terrible. If we want people to make their lives in the highlands, then there need to be permanent contracts and affordable housing for key workers.

"The Scottish Government has a broken relationship with rural Scotland. The Lib Dem results in the Highlands are a reflection that this government doesn’t get rural Scotland and hasn’t been present." @davidgreen4csr.bsky.social

New office signage needed given the constituency name change. The good people of Corstorphine were pleased to see me up a ladder doing the black paintwork myself!

The case for a parliamentary inquiry into the facts of who knew what and when about the Murrell scandal is unanswerable. These unanswered questions remain:

We are pleased to have secured an independent chair for the review into maternity services. It would not have been right for ministers to mark their own homework. This review must put first the voices of families across the Far North.

The violence seen in recent days is born of a hatred stoked by bad actors online and amplified by voices in the chamber of the Scottish Parliament. If they seek to gain political advantage by trying to divide then they underestimate the people of Scotland and they will fail.

A leading education expert warned this week of a ‘persistent and worsening shortage’ of specialist teachers in Scottish schools. Our new research shows that over 500 teaching jobs had to be re-advertised due to shortages. Posts have been left unfilled for as long as 2 years.

Far too often the approach of Scotland's SNP government, its state-owned water company and its light touch regulator is that Scotland's sewage crisis is out of sight and out of mind. Scottish Liberal Democrats want to see a Clean Water Act to take the sewage scandal seriously.

The biggest event of the week has arrived: the Scottish Liberal Democrat spokesperson line-up is here. With this hard working team Scottish Liberal Democrats will be fighting for change with fairness at its heart every single day.

“What we need is STV” @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk shares his party’s policy on electoral reform, advocating for a form of single transferable vote system. This is the system that is currently used in Scottish local elections. Would STV in Scottish parliamentary elections produce fairer results?

“This is all people are talking about… I think there is a role for Parliament here” @alex.scotlibdems.org.uk says that there might be a need for a parliamentary investigation into the Peter Murrell scandal. He asks "was the Scottish Government actively participating in a criminal conspiracy?”

"The reality of the situation is stark. This is a crisis because too many people have died since promises were made. If we want to be ambitious for Scotland, let us start with our children." Duncan Dunlop

Scottish Liberal Democrats are determined to use our strengthened position in parliament to restore some trust in politics. That means holding the powerful to account, which is why we would support a parliamentary inquiry into the Peter Murrell scandal.

Our Edinburgh Northern MSP Sanne Dijkstra-Downie made her first speech as an MSP today. Her speech focused on her constituency and what Liberal Democrats would do to help people in Edinburgh Northern with their energy bills.

During the Easter holidays, at least 8 ferries were out of action at the same time. Then last week, the Waverley paddle steamer stepped in for a stricken CalMac vessel. John Swinney must have winced with embarrassment. Is Scotland’s ferry fleet ready for the summer?+

Our North East Scotland MSP Yi-pei Chou Turvey made her first speech as an MSP today. Her speech focused on childcare and how getting the right provision in place is vital for growing the economy, as well as the impact on local government budgets.