Top city analysts have slammed the SNP’s pledge to cap food prices as “hair brained,” as the party’s leader refuses to walk back from the policy.

In a long list of ridiculous policy ideas the plan to cap the price of bread stands out as the most economically illiterate

The SNP election manifesto outlined proposals to cap the cost of 20-50 'essential food items', with the FM citing bread, milk, rice, chicken and eggs - but not vegetables.

Top city analysts have slammed the SNP’s pledge to cap food prices as “hair brained,” as the party’s leader refuses to walk back from the policy.