Labour says Conservative failures have left UK with ‘low growth, high tax and national debt at the highest level in generations’
Humza Yousaf is to pledge an extra £300m for the NHS in Scotland over the next three years, saying the cash could reduce waiting lists by 100,000 by 2026, PA Media reports. PA says:
The Scottish first minister and SNP leader will announce additional funding as he makes his keynote speech to his party’s annual conference this afternoon.
It is his first conference since taking over from Nicola Sturgeon as party leader and first minister in March this year – but it comes at a time when his party is seeing support slip in the polls, while a police investigation into internal SNP finances is still ongoing.