Voting against the Budget will be ‘albatross’ around Labour’s neck, says Swinney

First Minister John Swinney at Bute House in Edinburgh (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

Voting against the Scottish Government’s Budget will be an “albatross” around Labour’s neck, the First Minister has said, as he pledged to be the one “putting it there”.

Finance Secretary Shona Robison published the Government’s draft Budget last week, with the SNP two votes short of a working majority, although still able to rely on support from expelled MSP John Mason.