Craig Hoy: “These bombshell figures expose the recklessness of the SNP making Scotland the highest taxed part of the United Kingdom.”

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

Their economic approach has the country stuck in a dangerous doom loop of ever-increasing taxes and low growth, which is resulting in far less tax revenue being collected than expected.

This is a shocking development.

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