Swinney's free schoolbags for every Scottish P1 pupil are to be manufactured... in CHINA!

Daily Mail - Oct 24, 2026

The schoolbags to be given to all new Scots primary pupils following a controversial £6.5million pre-election promise by John Swinney will be made in China.

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