ALL parties in Scotland have attacked the latest Tory Budget — including their Scottish branch.

Even before the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had got to his feet, SNP’s Stephen Flynn used Prime Minister’s Questions to attack a North Sea windfall tax extension.

He asked: “The Conservative Party in Scotland are furious that Westminster is about to tax Scotland’s natural resources to fund tax cuts here in England. 

“Is the Prime Minister in danger of turning his own colleagues into Scottish nationalists?”

His suspicions proved correct, when Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross joined SNP defence of oil profiteering, stating he was “deeply disappointed” by the plans.

Scottish Labour’s Anas Sarwar commented: “Scotland deserves better than Rishi’s recession with the Tories, or an SNP that thinks that oil and gas giants should pay less tax while a nurse should pay more.”

STUC general secretary Roz Foyer stated the Budget would “barely touch the sides after 14 years of unrelenting Tory austerity.” 

She said: “This isn’t a Budget for long-term growth; this was an electioneering Budget for the Tories and their support alone.

“Scotland’s workers should remember this callous approach to their pay packets and public services at the ballot box come the election.”