DURING the Scottish election campaign, the SNP introduced a manifesto pledge around food pricing, which caused much consternation. The idea was to legally cap the prices of essential items in supermarkets.
Given the party’s track record when it comes to making big statements without a strategy for delivery, it was met with scepticism and immediately cast as a pie-in-the-sky policy. Here, apparently, was another “populist” bung for the electorate ahead of the vote.
