Craig Hoy: “The bank must not become another SNP vanity project where taxpayers are left to foot the bill for failure while…”

Scots will rightly be furious that the SNP are shelling out record sums of taxpayers’ money on an army of spin doctors to try to defend their appalling record in government.

John Swinney and his ministerial colleagues need to accept their approach is going to mean more pain for Scots in the coming years, through more tax rises or spending cuts or both.

This is a deeply worrying sign for hard-pressed Scots, who are already being clobbered by sky-high SNP taxes.

Every single Scot is over £2,700 better off because we are part of a strong United Kingdom.