A prominent MP has been collared by a fact-checking service over a "mostly false" claim about education in Scotland. David Linden, who represents Glasgow East, took to BBC Radio 4 to defend his party's failures in schools where they have failed to eradicate the attainment gap between poorer and rich students.
In fact, this gap has widened in recent years, and despite Nicola Sturgeon's woe to get rid of it during her time at Bute House. Mr Linden was sticking up for the SNP ahead when he said: "In terms of education, we’ve closed the attainment gap by two-thirds”.
However, this has been found to be even more disinformation being peddled by the Nats, who even have their own disinformation tsar in Stewart McDonald who should be keeping his colleagues in line. The Ferret Fact Service found this Mostly False.
It found that he was "selectively presenting" data by only measuring the attainment gap on one specific measure which was school leavers destinations since 2009-10. It confirmed that "across other measures there has not been a similar reduction, with the gap remaining static or increasing across numerous categories."
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