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Here's the key lines that emerged from the interview with first minister and SNP leader John Swinney:

• The FM says he has been busy running the country for the last few weeks - which is why the SNP bus is only touring in this last week of the campaign, insisting the party has enough money to fund the election campaign
• Swinney says "austerity is killing our public services" and argues Labour have signed up to the same cuts as the Tories, which will lead to £18bn of spending cuts
• Swinney says the "UK must follow Scotland's lead on income tax" and if Labour don't change their tax plans Scotland faces a budget cut
• He reiterates there is a "conspiracy of silence" between Labour and the Tories over finances
• He insists the SNP provide an alternative to the "straightjacket of Westminster control in Scotland".
• The SNP leader also insists he believes in the "sovereignty of the Scottish people", as he argues the 2021 Holyrood election delivered a mandate for indyref2 that has not been honoured and must be
• He says he would "engage strongly" with the new Westminster government if it proposed a separate immigration plan for Scotland

The next general election will take place this Thursday - 4 July.

The UK is divided into 650 areas, called constituencies, and each of these elects one MP to represent local residents at Westminster.

Scotland will elect 57 MPs.

This time, you will have to present a valid form of photo ID at the polling station before casting your vote.

You can follow all the latest election news on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland website.

SNP leader John Swinney tells the Sunday Show he would "engage strongly" with a UK Labour government on a separate immigration plan for Scotland.

Mr Swinney said he welcomes newspaper reports that Labour is preparing to work with the SNP on migration, but added: "Allow me to be a wee bit doubtful.

"The Labour Party has taken a very, very hostile attitude towards migration and we'd have to see how that would work out in practice".

Does immigration matter to the election in Scotland?published at 12:03 British Summer Time 30 June

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John Swinney was challenged about his party's position on immigration.

In Scotland, there are demographic pressures to replace working age Scots as they get older.

Some argue there should be a different and more welcoming approach, controlled from Holyrood.

But in other parts of the UK, there are concerns about the effect of immigration on public services and the need for more housing.

So - how much does immigration matter to the election in Scotland?

You can read more on the subject here.

On the Sunday Show radio broadcast, Prof Ailsa Henderson of Edinburgh University sums up the polls.

Prof Henderson explains there's been a further 15 polls of voters in Great Britain, with Labour leads ranging from 16 to 24 points.

She says "if turnout is low then pollsters who are removing uncertain voters are going to be more accurate".

Those are the polls showing larger leads for Labour, she notes.

The academic turns to polls in Scotland.

The story in Scotland is Labour is either up or tied with the SNP.

"It looks like the SNP are going to lose a considerable number of seats," she suggests.

However, independence support is pretty much where it was, she adds.

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Martin turns again to the panel for their take on what John Swinney said.

Businessman Sir Tom Hunter says Swinney said it was austerity that was killing public services, but he "did not come up with one thing to grow the economy".

Next to share a view is markets analyst Anna MacDonald and she focuses on a decline in education performance in Scotland.

International rankings "show Scotland falling far behind England now," she points out, adding education is the absolute key to growth.

Big Issue editor Paul McNamee says: "It feels very much like he's getting ready for 2026 rather than for an election this week."

Swinney is asked if the SNP is guilty of a failure in succession planning - given that he is back in charge of a party he first led two decades ago.

"I've been (back) in office for just short of eight weeks," he says. "In that time, I've united the Scottish National Party."

He says he has the party focused on a positive campaign about providing hope and an alternative to the "straitjacket of Westminster control in Scotland".

Finally, Swinney insists he is back in the job for the long-term - well beyond the 2026 Scottish elections.

Swinney defends the SNP's record on health saying that, when his party came to power, the NHS took up about 33% of the total budget and it is now "very close to 50%.

He says that has led to record numbers of NHS staff.

It is put to Swinney that cancer waiting times are "lamentable", to which he says they are a challenge but a huge amount of good work is being done to drive them down.

Swinney says there is "a huge wad of resources" that come to Scotland through the block grant that he does not control.

"The UK political parties have signed up to an approach that will cut our public spending.

"And after 14 years of austerity from the Conservatives, I think people in Scotland will be aghast that the Labour party wish to continue spending cuts where the Tories left off," he says.

• If you want to understand more about how public services are funded in Scotland, you can read about it here.

Moving on to housing, Swinney says he would like to do more to help, particularly young people, with regards to affordable house.

But he says "I've got to be straight with people - there are limits to what we can do with the resources we have".

Swinney says there is a "conspiracy of silence" between the Labour party and the Conservative party about "the crisis in our finances".

It's the final Sunday of the election campaign and all the parties will be out and about meeting voters ahead of polling day on Thursday.

SNP leader John Swinney will leave the studion in Glasgow to campaign in North Ayrshire.

The Scottish Conservative chairman Craig Hoy will attend election events in the Scottish Borders.

The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton will take his message to Inverness, while Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, will meet his activists in the Loch Lomond area.

Tax: A dividing line this electionpublished at 11:21 British Summer Time 30 June

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland political correspondent

Tax is a striking a dividing line in this election - in Scotland, at least.

The SNP is the only large party which is talking about rises to personal taxes. Labour and the Lib Dems don’t want to hike them, and the Conservatives want to cut them.

Meanwhile John Swinney is proud to say his Scottish government is already taxing the better off a bit more, to fund public services.

In a way it’s easy for him to make a similar demand in a UK election; his party won’t be in government at Westminster, so they don’t have to worry about the messy detail of actually delivering on it.

And there is also the fact he would get something back should the next Prime Minister heed his calls, in the form of an increased budget at Holyrood.

But it is an old-fashioned tax-and-spend proposal which sets his party apart from the others, in the crucial days where undecided voters are making up their minds.

Turning to the cost of living and particularly its affect on families, Swinney says his government's Scottish Child Payment "is stopping people starving".

He adds: "We're keeping 100,000 children out of poverty. We're paying for that in Scotland and I'm proud we're doing that."

In the Scottish National Party (SNP) 2024 election manifesto, leader John Swinney said a vote for his party would "intensify" the pressure to secure Scottish independence.

The sets out the party's policies for the next parliament.

Click here for the 11 key policies in the SNP manfiesto analysed.

You can read what other parties are offering at the links below:

• Scottish Labour policies analysed
• Scottish Conservative policies analysed
• Scottish Lib Dem policies analysed

On immigration, Swinney says he welcomes talk of a Labour government introducing separate visa rules for Scotland.

But he says he is yet to be convinced because, up to now, the Labour party has taken a "very, very hostile attitude" towards immigration.

"We would have to see how that would work out in practice," he adds.

The issue of delayed discharges from hospitals has been a major issue for the Scottish government.

Swinney says it's a problem because his government can't deliver enough social care packages in the community.

That is, in a major way, down to Brexit, the FM says.

He points to the loss of recruitment of staff from EU countries.

Scottish independence takes "lower key" position this electionpublished at 11:10 British Summer Time 30 June

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland political correspondent

Asked about Scottish indepedence, Swinney said he "believe[s] in the sovereignty of the people of Scotland."

He argues the mandate from the 2021 Holyrood election, where pro-independence parties won a majority, should be honoured.

This election, independence has played a lower-key role, compared to previous contests dominated by the constitution.

The difficulty for John Swinney is that he would justifiably use a big win in this election as a mandate to push forward his calls for a referendum. It is on page one, line one of the manifesto after all.

But at the same time he insists that a poor result would not damage the cause of independence, because there is an existing mandate in the SNP-Green majority secured at the last Holyrood election.

Those positions can be difficult to square.

The contradiction is that Swinney is effectively saying this election cannot harm the prospects for independence, no matter what happens to the SNP vote.

In fairness that may reflect the fact the public remain pretty evenly split on the issue; the Yes vote has largely held up in polls, even as the SNP has apparently slipped.

But Swinney also, obviously, wants independence supporters to vote SNP. So he will desperately want to avoid tacitly giving them permission to vote for anyone else, by suggesting that it wouldn’t affect the cause.

Investment and reform are both necessary to improve Scotland's public services, Swinney says.

He points to the formation of Police Scotland the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service - and the integration of health and social care at local level.