Robison calls for clarity amid U-turn 'chaos'

Rachel Reeves for her fiscal rules ...she has got some invidious choices to make'

- BY DAVID WALKER Scottish Politics Reporter

SHONA ROBISON criticised Rachel Reeves for her U-turn on hiking income tax - just two weeks after slating her for suggesting this policy in the first place.

The Holyrood finance secretary had bemoaned that the Scottish Government would miss out on £1 billion if income tax was raised down south.

But now reports suggest the Chancellor is no longer plotting this due to healthier financial estimates and a fear of upsetting Labour back-benchers.