Must do better on rich-poor gap

A WEEK is said to be a long time in politics, which makes a decade seem like an eternity.

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Party leaders of all persuasions would prefer if the public couldn't recall the big promises they made around election times.

But some policy pledges are so massive they can't just be quietly ignored when events render them redundant.

Flush from another Holyrood election victory in 2016, Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP government told Scots that narrowing the poverty attainment gap would become a key ambition.