Thank you. The next item of business is First Minister's questions.

And at question number one, I call Russell Finley.

Thank you, President. What was Nicola Sturgeon's biggest failure in office?

First Minister.

I think Nicholas Sturgeon gave very strong leadership to Scotland during some really difficult times.

She took forward a large number of policy innovations that have made Scotland a better country than we have been in the past.

I noticed that yesterday, and I suspect with the tone of today's exchanges, that there's a

gracefulness in the response of Mr. Sarwa, Mr. Cole Hamilton, Mr Harvey and Ms Slater about

the service of Scotland's first female female first minister and the longest serving first

minister and I notice that that graceless tone has been jeopardised by Russell Finley.

Yeah.

Russell Finley.

John Swinney appears to have misheld my first question, or maybe he just finds it impossible to pick from Nicholson's

vast back catalogue of failure.

So let me help him.

And I'll start with Scotland's once world leading education system, a system now more interested in teaching

pupils about pronouns and feelings than literacy and numeracy. She is responsible

for plummeting League Table placements for Scotland and she is responsible for failing

Scotland's poorest pupils. She said that she would eliminate the attainment gap but

it remains as wide as the Clyde.

Will Nicholas Sturgeon's Education Secretary, John Swinney, admit that they, together, have failed a generation of young people?

First Minister.

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