This is the SNP’s latest messaging. Ministers, MSPs, payroll drones and the central party account were all tweeting variations on the line yesterday. And it’s quite difficult even just ...

It’s a well-known truism that if a newspaper headline is phrased as a question, the answer to that question is always “No”. And nothing’s changed here.

It’s worth remembering that they didn’t have to do this. Labour had already announced their intention to abstain. There was no danger of the budget being defeated. So the SNP could have allocated ...