Craig Hoy: “John Swinney was clearly ignoring the warnings from business leaders and economists that continually hiking taxes kills…”

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.

Scots will be concerned that dozens of taxpayer-funded devices have been lost or stolen in such a short space of time.

The damning results in this survey show that SNP ministers have lost control of their ever-growing army of civil servants.

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