Blair wanted a British
Failure in education leads to rankings slip
SCOTLAND has slid down an international league table because of falling education standards and the oil crash.
Scotland fell from 16th in the list of 32 OECD developed nations in 2006 to 20th in 2016, one of five nations to experience a fall.
Professor John McLaren, who published the study, blamed the worsening education performance and falling income associated with North Sea decline.
Labour MSP Jackie Baillie said: “This is a brutally honest assessment of the SNP’s time in government.” TONY Blair has said he wanted a British football league to be set up to maintain cultural links across the UK following devolution. The former Labour PM said he believed that it was important to reaffirm the “strong ties” that bound England and Scotland, 20 years on from the devolution vote.
One of Blair’s first acts when he swept to power in 1997 was to set up a fresh referendum on Scottish devolution.
In an interview with BBC Scotland, Newcastle United fan Blair said: “I was for a time quite obsessed with the idea that for football, we should be opening up