Two of Scotland’s leading economists warned that frontline services such as education and social care will lose out to Edinburgh’s troubled trams project as they raised serious doubts over every single aspect of the funding proposals.

Professor Arthur Midwinter of Edinburgh University Business School told The Herald the council’s plans to raise the extra £173 million needed are “full of questionable assumptions and there is risk in every element”.

In a scathing attack, Professor Arthur Midwinter of Edinburgh University Business School told The Herald the council’s plans to raise the extra £173 million needed are “full of questionable assumptions and there is risk in every element”.

The report from the Herald can be found here.