THE newly re-elected SNP government’s public-sector reform plans are “austerity in a yellow rosette,” the Scottish TUC warned today.Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth has warned that her colleague Ivan McKee — in the newly minted role of public service reform secretary — would be “driving some of the efficiency” needed to tackle the gap.“If you look again in the budget, we set out portfolio efficiency savings targets,” she said.

THE newly re-elected SNP government’s public-sector reform plans are “austerity in a yellow rosette,” the Scottish TUC warned today.

Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth has warned that her colleague Ivan McKee — in the newly minted role of public service reform secretary — would be “driving some of the efficiency” needed to tackle the gap.

“If you look again in the budget, we set out portfolio efficiency savings targets,” she said.

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