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It feels like a very, very long time ago now, but back in 2021, the SNP published a manifesto for the Holyrood election.

Like any other manifesto, it contained all sorts of promises and pledges and commitments and rhetoric covering all sorts of policy areas, including the one that the party used to pretend was its top priority: education.

We were promised thousands more teachers (that hasn’t happened) and free school breakfasts and lunches for every primary school pupil (that hasn’t happened either).

Some especially gullible readers might even have believed that the SNP really would give every child in Scotland a free laptop or tablet and free internet.

But the part that caught the attention of teachers, a significant proportion of whom are long past trusting the party of Alex Salmond,

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