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SNP ‘lost plot’ after backing free asylum seeker travel but cutting winter fuel payments, say Tories

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71% Informative

MSPs voted by a margin of 68 to 27 to back the Green call for free bus travel for asylum seekers.

The Greens welcomed the about-turn by John Swinney ’s SNP Government after it axed the policy in August as part of a series of cuts to public spending.

But the Tories said it was “scandalous’ that the subsidy could be provided at the same time as pensioners’ winter fuel payments are being cut.

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72

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68

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52

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formal

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English

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46

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short-lived

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