Stephen Kerr: “After nearly 20 years in government, crime is soaring, while the number of police officers continues to be slashed.”

This is what nearly two decades of SNP failure on justice looks like: rising crime, weaker sentences and a justice system that criminals can increasingly take advantage of.

The SNP have weakened deterrence, piled pressure on to our police and repeatedly put the interests of offenders ahead of victims.

Nobody is asking them to paint their faces, wear St George’s Cross waistcoats, or start singing Three Lions. Just wish our neighbours well, enjoy the football and stop turning everything into another nationalist grievance.

Scottish taxpayers will be utterly sickened that the legal aid bill for Peter Murrell is set to keep rising, with tens of thousands of pounds now likely to be handed to the lawyers of a man who has been jailed after embezzling more than…