By 2019-20, Scottish public services, like schools and hospitals, will have lost out on over £13.9 billion of real-terms investment. We will therefore not support any UK government that does not end austerity and begin to replace the funds lost over the last ten years. And, we will not stand by whilst Scotland is denied its fair share of public spending, particularly when the DUP in Northern Ireland are the beneficiaries of a £1 billion Brexit bung.
for limiting the welfare state, for example public funding for social services or social security, e.g. private care before state care