With just a week to go until polling day, we're drawing our live page coverage of the campaign to a close for today.

Here are the headlines that emerged:

• There was unity from Scotland's party leaders in condemning antisemitism following the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, north London
• On the campaign trail, Russell Findlay, the Scottish Tory leader, was at the Union Bridge in Roxburghshire calling on voters to back his party to block independence
• John Swinney was in Stranraer stressing the need "to stop the politics of Reform right at the border"
• The Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer was in Dumfries pledging to return a rail link to Stranraer and bring buses back into public ownership
• Malcolm Offord was in Castlemilk in Glasgow, where the Reform UK Scotland leader pledged to bring in more community policing
• Anas Sarwar visited Holyrood to set out the actions that would be taken in the first 100 days of a Scottish Labour government
• Defence should be at the heart of new industrial and skills strategies, argued Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton on a trip to the Babcock dockyard in Rosyth

That's all from the live page team today. The editor was Paul McLaren and the writer was Craig Hutchison. Thanks for joining us and we'll back in the morning to do it all again.

Next up to answer our questions to the party leaders is Alex Cole-Hamilton of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

You can click on each of the six videos at the top of this page.

Phil Sim
Scotland political correspondent

We are getting more and more used to seeing AI generated images online - and they are starting to creep into election materials too.

SNP leader and Scottish First Minster John Swinney has posted a picture on social media site X which was manipulated using AI.

The image shows a real media event the party held on Tuesday, where a large campaign billboard was unveiled in Edinburgh.

However, faces and writing in the background of the picture are distorted, in a telltale sign of AI image generation.

There is no “made using AI” tag on the post.

A spokesman for the SNP said “the picture was edited quickly to enhance the billboard image which was obscured by bright sunlight”.

They added that all of the people in the image are “100% real”.

Image source, SNP

Richard Forbes
BBC Scotland News

The Scottish Liberal Democrats want more money spend on colleges to improve training for the defence sector workforce.

Alex Cole-Hamilton, who was campaigning at the Babcock yard in Rosyth earlier, said 300 welders have had to be shipped in from the Philippines due to a lack of skills locally.

He highlighted the threat around our shores from Russian submarines.

The Lib Dem leader pointed to lucrative defence contracts on the horizon and said Scotland needs to be in a better position to win them.

Lynsey Bews
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Edinburgh Central was won by the SNP's Angus Robertson in 2021.

It's had a varied political history - having been previously held by the Conservatives and Labour.

At this election, the Greens are hoping its political colours can be changed once again - it's a top target seat for the party.

Boundary changes mean some parts of Edinburgh's southern communities have been added to the constituency. And that's given Labour hope this can be a three-way contest.

We put questions from Edinburgh Central voters to the crowded field of candidates all vying to become their next MSP.

Issues included the financial future of Edinburgh University the city's struggle with the affordability and availability of housing, as well as access to GP appointments and NHS waiting lists.

You can listen to the hustings on BBC Sounds from Friday.

Next up to answer our questions to the party leaders is Malcolm Offord of Reform UK Scotland.

We'll bring you the others throughout the day.

Image source, X/Malcolm Offord

The spat between UK Reform Scotland leader Malcolm Offord and Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer is continuing online.

The two clashed on STV's leaders debate over Offord's wealth after the multi-millionaire businessman said he owned six houses, five cars and six boats.

In a subsequent interview with the Herald, external, Greer said he would not rule out a yacht tax.

Offord posted a picture on X, external with the caption: "Come on board for a sail first Mr Greer, so you know what you’re taxing.

"Here’s my biggest yacht.

"No beds or galley, so bring that wetsuit you're fond of wearing. Not even a loo, so be prepared to “bucket and chuck it"!"

Ross Greer is in Dumfries campaigning today, where he is laying out a vision of how to connect communities.

To achieve this, the Scottish Greens co-leader says his party they would reopen the Dumfries to Stranraer railway and bring buses back into public ownership.

He adds this would bring services back to communities who've been let down over and over again.

Greer reiterates his pledge to provide universal free bus travel and tackle issues around childcare.

He also says his party is not afraid to say the super-rich need to pay a bit more in tax to fund the public services everybody needs, so he calls for people to vote for the Greens on the peach ballot paper.

Next up to answer our questions to the party leaders is John Swinney of the SNP.

We'll bring you the others throughout the day.

Could the Tories abolish land and buildings transaction tax?published at 15:32 BST 30 April

15:32 BST 30 April

BBC Scotland: Phil Sim

During BBC Scotland’s young voters debate, Conservative candidate Meghan Gallacher said her party would scrap land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT) - Scotland’s version of stamp duty.

She said: “That is an additional cost people have to pay when purchasing a home, we want to abolish that to make sure it’s easier for young people to afford a to buy home.”

There is no LBTT to pay on properties bought for under £145,000, external, and first time buyers can claim reliefs which raise this threshold to £175,000.

The average house price in Scotland as of February 2026, external was £187,000.

The Scottish Fiscal Commission has forecast, external that LBTT will being in revenues of just over £1bn next year.

However scrapping the tax was not included in the £6bn of cuts and spending included in the Scottish Conservative manifesto, external.

The party actually says it would first need to win a general election, and have a Tory government at Westminster abolish stamp duty in the rest of the UK.

This would cost the UK government about £10bn - based on the revenues from residential stamp duty, external alone - and thanks to the way tax devolution works, could in turn trigger extra funding for Holyrood.

That cash would then be used by a hypothetical Scottish Conservative government to pay for tax cuts here.

So the Conservatives would need to win multiple elections and make changes at Westminster to deliver on this pledge.

On the issues arising from the attacks on two Jewish men in Golders Green in north London, John Swinney says: "There are very deep problems about antisemitism in our society,"

The SNP leader, who is campaigning in Stranraer today, adds this is completely unacceptable and must be addressed.

"Fundamentally, the Jewish community must feel safe within our society."

Swinney explains he engages regularly in the community and with the police on this issue.

He says much of the dialogue is focused on physical safety and aspects of education where it must be made clear that antisemitism is completely unacceptable.

Let's return to the leaders of Scotland's largest parties giving their reactions to two Jewish men being stabbed in Golders Green, north London.

"Antisemitism is clearly an emergency in the UK," says Ross Greer.

"Our Jewish community should feel safe here in Scotland and across the country."

The Scottish Greens co-leader highlights the rise in antisemitic attacks and anti-Muslim attacks and says "this is vile we all need to stand against these hateful forces in our society".

He adds: "We stand with the Jewish community and all other minority communities who are facing so much hate and hostility right now."

Greer warns politicians must watch their rhetoric, citing the example of the prime minister talking about the UK being an island of strangers because of immigration.

He goes on to say: "It is dangerous to Jewish people to conflate them with the state of Israel, a state that is committing a genocide."

John Swinney is in Stranraer campaigning and he says: "I want to make sure there's improvements to the A75 undertaken."

The SNP leader wants to strengthen the safety of the road.

He explains his party will take forward targetted improvements on the A75.

Swinney moves on to the safe delivery of health care services in all circumstances.

"I want to make sure that services are, where it's possible to do so, delivered as locally as possible."

He says the maternity review is looking at how to deliver more services close to communities like Stranraer.

Swinney says he wants a rebalancing of local services so they are delivered closer to people and therefore avoiding long journeys.

SNP leader John Swinney is campaigning in Stranraer - and is calling on the people of the south of Scotland to "stop the politics of Reform right at the border".

Swinney says it's important that every part of Scotland hears the message from the SNP about the improvements the party wants to deliver in people's lives.

"For example, GP walk-in clinics here in Stranraer - a proposal that our opponents want to stop us from taking forward.

"We've got plans for an affordable price cap for people on their food shop which our opponents also want to stop.

"Also, crucially, we can stop the politics of Reform right at the border so that Nigel Farage doesn't get any sway in the governance of Scotland at all."

Kirsten Campbell
BBC Scotland political correspondent

Image source, PA Media

With a week to go until polling day, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has been setting out the actions that would be taken in the first 100 days of a Scottish Labour government.

He says if Scotland chooses change he'll get to work straight away and his party's published a five page document entitled 100 Days of Change, which outlines 50 actions to be carried out by the autumn.

The plan includes declaring a waiting times emergency and stopping the downgrading of Wishaw neonatal unit.

Banning phones in classrooms and beginning the recruitment of the first tranche of recovery teachers, are other priorities, along with transferring the first £70m into a pothole fund for councils.

Image source, PA Media

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar repeats his well-worn phrase of “give me five” at a campaign event at Holyrood.

“You’ve given the SNP 20 years, give me five and I’ll deliver change” is the mantra to prospective voters.

Rebecca Curran
BBC Scotland News

The Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine constituency has been held by the SNP since 2011 and is expected to be closely contested.

This set the stage for a strong BBC Scotland debate featuring experienced politicians, including the SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn and Liam Kerr of the Scottish Conservatives.

The future of the North Sea oil and gas industry emerged as the dominant issue raised by voters, despite energy policy being reserved to Westminster.

Reform candidate Duncan Massey raised eyebrows when he claimed renewables “aren’t providing any jobs whatsoever".

Scottish Labour’s Matthew Lee said he supports the controversial Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields, and there was general agreement among candidates, including Liberal Democrat Mel Sullivan and Independent Iris Leask, on the need for continued drilling.

Listeners in the North East can listen to the debate on BBC Sounds now, or between 17:00 and 18:00 this evening on Radio Scotland FM.

Image source, Getty Images

Next up to answer our questions to the party leaders is Ross Greer of the Scottish Greens.

We'll bring you the others throughout the day.

The Scottish Greens are saying they want to empower communities to stand up to industrial-scale fish farming developments.

Co-leaders Ross Greer and Gillian Mackay want to put local people at the heart of managing marine spaces, meaning coastal and lochside areas would have a greater say over planning applications for fish farms.

Regulation would also be expanded so that watchdogs have more powers to close down sites that fail to meet high welfare and environmental standards.

They say this would force prevent big corporations to prove they are improving fish welfare, stopping escapes that damage wild salmon populations, as well as preventing plastics and chemicals from entering our waterways.