Nicola Sturgeon attacks UK government's spending cuts

Scotland's first minister says cuts will hit economic growth and deficit reduction and says the Scottish government will campaign to stay in the EU

Nicola Sturgeon has attacked the "scale and speed" of government spending cuts, while pledging that the Scottish government will campaign for the UK to stay in the EU.

In her first major speech on the economy since the general election, Scotland's first minister argued that the proposed cuts would hamper the economic recovery and make reducing the deficit harder.

During the runup to the referendum the Scottish "government will make a strong and positive case for staying in the EU