Scotland urgently needs a new long-term plan for growth or else governments will be forced to impose increasingly higher taxes on a permanent basis, a new report for Our Scottish Future warns today.

Reality usually catches up with all of us, no matter how hard we try to explain things away. Governments too. Not even the SNP’s record amount of spin doctoring could disguise the harsh realities behind Kate Forbes’ spending announcement yesterday. Chickens are coming home to roost, and we are none of us going to like it.

Prof Ronald MacDonald, chair of Our Scottish Future’s Economy Commission, in response the the Scottish Government’s resource spending review, says Scotland must cooperate to get growth.

Today’s resource spending review announcement by Finance Secretary Kate Forbes confirmed what we already knew. As it stands, Scotland’s public finances are heading for the rocks.

A new UK-wide video games network should be created by the UK’s governments to help turn Scotland’s gaming sector into a global “superpower”, a new paper by Our Scottish Future says.

Mr Gove’s paper shows that the debate over the future of our country is over how we deliver the more cooperative UK that people across the country say they overwhelmingly want.

In response to the Scottish Government’s plan for Economic Transformation, Professor Ronald MacDonald, the chairman of Our Scottish Future’s Economic Commission said: “This report provides a clear diagnosis of the problems facing the Scottish economy but, on solutions, it is simply a rehash of all the failed scripts we have seen since 2007.”

Michael Gove’s “levelling up” White Paper is driven by brute politics.