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DANI GARAVELLI Every declaration of an emergency is first and foremost an admission of failure, says Dani Garavelli
National government
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SNP ‘housing emergency’ declaration is simply an admission of failure, Mr Swinney
IT WOULD make a niche Scottish parlour game: guess what “emergency” the SNP will declare next. If the criterion is crises that have peaked on their watch, then it’s a pretty large field. We’ve already ticked off “climate”, “drugs deaths” and, just last week, “housing”. How about an ambulance emergency, or a prisons emergency or a culture emergency? Or, wait, I’ve got it - a ferries emergency?

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