Scot Lib Dems respond to a spring budget that lets down NHS and mortgage holders

Responding to the Spring Budget, Liberal Democrat Scottish Affairs spokesperson Christine Jardine said:

"This really is a budget with little to offer families struggling with Rishi's recession. It felt like a few scraps from a government which knows it's out of time.

"The national insurance cut is meaningless because of stealth taxes elsewhere.

“Scottish Liberal Democrats are on the side of hardworking Scots who want to see their bills and NHS waits cut. Where was the help for people with soaring mortgages or spending months in pain waiting for NHS treatment?

“The sooner voters get the chance to deliver their verdict the better."

On the windfall tax she added:

"This is a budget which will not make anyone happy, least of all the Scottish Conservatives who are clearly completely out of the loop. On the same day they lead a Scottish Parliament debate on oil and gas, the Chancellor stood up to announce that he was extending the same windfall tax they were arguing against.

"That leaves the SNP as now the last party standing on the side of the super profits of the oil and gas giants.