Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay has urged the First Minister to use the funding boost from the UK Government’s scrapping of the two-child cap to cut taxes.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the policy would be scrapped from April next year when she announced her Budget on Wednesday, freeing up £155 million in Scottish Government cash already allocated to mitigate the cap ahead of setting its own budget in January.

First Minister John Swinney has previously said the money would be invested in other initiatives in an effort to bring down the rate of child poverty.

But at First Minister’s Questions on Thursday, Mr Findlay urged him to instead use the funding to bring down income tax.

“Given Labour’s decision to scrap the two-child cap, the SNP can now spend that money on som

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