Tories

Speaking on the morning the PBR will be announced, SNP MSP Joe FitzPatrick – a member of the Scottish parliament’s Finance Committee – has highlighted how Tory proposals for Scottish public spending would result in almost the entire Scottish school education being wiped out if they were adopted.

Responding to reports that David Cameron is preparing to snub David Mundell by refusing to make him Scottish Secretary if the Tories win, Glasgow East MP John Mason said it highlighted how pointless the position was.

Writing in the Sunday Times Finance Secretary John Swinney wrote that Labour's cuts can return Scotland to dark days of Thatcher and that Labour could face the same fate as the Tories north of the border.

SNP MSP for Lothians Shirley-Anne Somerville today criticised Conservative plans for a high speed rail link from London to cut short haul flights that would go only as far as Leeds.