The SNP has been accused of ‘hypocrisy' after it emerged their election battle bus runs on diesel despite its green manifesto promises.

The yellow coach featuring John Swinney's photograph was hired from Lanarkshire company Parks of Hamilton and is currently touring the country.

The latest nationalist manifesto lays out a commitment to ‘promote a fair and affordable transition to zero-emission transport fuels and ban the import and sale of new, non-zero emission buses by 2025.'

But the party's bus runs on diesel fuel, sparking accusations of hypocrisy.

Businessman Donald MacLeod, a critic of the party's decision to impose a Low Emission Zone on Glasgow, said: Synthetic nicotine ‘They might have the brightest colour out there to get themselves noticed but yellow to me is the colour of cowardice.'




First Minister John Swinney and his deputy Kate Forbes with the diesel powered SNP battle bus that would fall foul of the SNP's green manifesto pledges