LABOUR MSPs condemned the “sickening sight” of the Scottish Nationalists and the Tories uniting today to prevent nationalisation of railways north of the border.

Scottish Labour reacted with anger after the Tories and the Scottish National Party (SNP) voted against their motion demanding that the SNP government strip Abellio of the ScotRail contract by 2022 and take the railways into public ownership.

More than 74,000 services have been cancelled since the Dutch firm took over the franchise in April 2015, an average of 47 per day.