Former local government minister Bob Neill has attacked Labour for using the Barnett formula as an ‘outrageous bribe' north of the border in a bid to keep voters onside. 

Speaking in Edinburgh, Mr Murphy said: ‘We will get the money for 1,000 extra nurses not by increasing taxes and the pressure on the working class, but by introducing a new tax – a mansion tax on houses worth over £2 million most of which is in London and the South East.