SCOTTISH Labour leader Anas Sarwar claimed today that the party will deliver 160,000 more NHS appointments annually by closing tax loopholes.

Speaking on the first day of Scottish Labour’s annual conference, Mr Sarwar said that he would direct “every penny” of Scotland’s share of the £1.5 billion the Treasury is expected to net through the party’s plans to scrap the non-dom tax status to cut Scotland’s record NHS waiting lists — currently a staggering 830,000-strong.

Mr Sarwar told delegates that after 17 years of SNP government in Scotland “every single public institution has been left weaker” and pledged: “We will put fairness back at the heart of everything we do.