Party leaders make election pitches ahead of crucial Holyrood contest in May

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Mr Findlay, meanwhile, hit out at Labour and the SNP for imposing "higher tax rates in order to fund an ever-growing benefits bill".
53% : Tories also want to cut income tax to 19p for lower- and middle-income earners, with Mr Findlay's party further pledging to increase the threshold at which people start paying the income tax in line with inflation for every year of the next Holyrood term, with similar increases also planned for the various tax bands.
46% : Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay argued the election should be dominated by the cost-of-living crisis, identifying this as being the "number one concern" for voters across the country - with the Conservative setting out tax changes which he said could save "many Scottish workers £1,500 more in tax" over the five years of the next Holyrood term.
42% : These plans mean that "over the lifetime of the next Parliament, we will finally close the egregious tax gap that costs many Scottish workers £1,500 more in tax", the Scottish Tory leader said.
31% : He vowed the Conservatives would seek to change this, saying they wanted to cut taxes for those higher earners paying the 42p rate of income tax in Scotland's devolved system, saying this would be done by increasing the threshold for the tax band in line with inflation.

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