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FMQs: 'dire' SNP budget will pass after Labour's 'blank cheque'

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay today criticised Scottish Labour for handing the SNP a “blank cheque” in the “cheapest budget deal since devolution.”

At First Minister’s Questions, Findlay said the SNP budget would pass because of the votes of Anas Sarwar’s Labour.

He urged John Swinney not to strike another “damaging” budget deal with the Greens.

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said: “The dire SNP budget will pass because of the votes of Anas Sarwar’s Labour.

“Labour have let the SNP away with another budget where Scottish workers and businesses will get higher taxes while public services decline.

“Anas Sarwar has done the cheapest budget deal in the history of devolution.

“It’s typical Labour – helping the SNP, just as they did with Nicola Sturgeon’s gender law and Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act.

“John Swinney’s ludicrous claims about Elon Musk sound like a serial arsonist suddenly warning about the risk of fire.

“The SNP built their house on populism. They are the party of blaming others, sowing division, and fantasy promises of easy fixes.

“After 18 years in power, John Swinney said this week that he wants his budget to be a ‘turning point’. But what is it that he wants to turn away from?

“He has spent 18 years demanding the break-up of the UK, wasting a fortune on ferries, backing gender reforms, doing huge damage to our schools, and supporting Nicola Sturgeon’s toxic legacy.

“John Swinney was the driving force behind every damaging SNP policy for the past 18 years.

“This budget is not a turning point. It’s more of the same divisive populist nonsense from John Swinney and the SNP.”