SEVENTEEN years of the SNP government “has squandered Scotland’s economic potential and left us all poorer,” according to Labour today

Scottish Labour’s economy spokesman Daniel Johnson made the remarks after government statistics show that Scotland’s employment rate at 73.1 per cent last month continues to lag behind the 74.5 per cent UK figure.

Median pay was also found to have grown by just 4.8 per cent over the last year has compared with the 6.9 per cent seen across the UK as a whole.