Commenting on the sacking of the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Natalie Don MSP said:

“This is simply a case of Liz Truss throwing her former chancellor under a bus, letting him take the blame for the economic mess that both she and him created.

“This is a desperate attempt by the Prime Minister to save her own political skin, only yesterday she claimed she was in lockstep with the former chancellor. Liz Truss won the Tory leadership contest on the basis of her tax cutting agenda, so it is disingenuous for her to lay all the blame on the former chancellor.

“I previously called for the former chancellor to resign or be sacked for the devastation his mini-budget had on the UK economy, with up to £65billion having to be invested by the Bank of England to save pension funds from going under.

“Appointing the Jeremy Hunt as her new chancellor only highlights the lack of quality within the Tory benches. Mr Hunt hammered the NHS in England with his reforms and cost-cutting and now putting him in charge of the economy only fills most people with dread.

“Food and fuel prices are rising, inflation is out of control, mortgages and loans are rising faster than people can afford. This is a UK Tory government which has lost control of the economy. This is due to an unelected Prime Minister who simply doesn’t know what she is doing.

“Under successive Tory governments we’ve seen inequality rise, poverty rise and the economy failing. We can’t afford to remain part of this union any longer, we need to have control of our own economy and that can only come with Independence.”