Labour’s pitch to business? You take the risk and create the jobs. They take the money.

At the Royal Bank Accelerator in Edinburgh, I met entrepreneurs building businesses and backing Scotland’s future. They need freedom to hire and invest.

A Budget raid on financial services would put the brakes on growth. The economy must come before Labour’s union paymasters and left-wing backbenchers.

Only the Conservatives will cut taxes, slash red tape and back business.