SNP's latest tax rises yet another reckless assault on hard-working Scots

TODAY MSPs will debate the SNP’s disastrous budget, which will impose yet more tax rises on hard-pressed Scots.

- Craig Hoy

Disastrous... Finance Secretary Shona Robison and First Minister John Swinney

The Nationalists are reaching for the only lever they ever pull to fund their ballooning benefits bill - clobbering middle-earners with higher bills.

Opposition parties ought to be queueing up to stymie the Nationalists, yet we'll almost certainly be stuck with another harmful budget for households and businesses, because Labour MSPs won’t vote against it.

We’ve known that since before we even knew what was in the Budget — because Anas Sarwar announced in advance that he was giving the SNP a free pass.

It’s a clear case of Labour failing to stand up to John Swinney’s government.