SCOTLAND’S only Labour MP Ian Murray branded a top SNP politician a “liability” yesterday after he failed to declare he owns a hotel in the Scottish Highlands.

Frank Ross, the party’s group leader on Edinburgh City Council, initially said he could not remember if he had updated his register of interests with details about his 11-bedroom Silverfjord Hotel in Kingussie, bought last October.

But he has since submitted fresh paperwork to the local authority confirming that he owns most of the company which bought the hotel.

Mr Murray, who launched his bid to be re-elected yesterday in Edinburgh South, said Mr Ross was “turning into a complete liability for the SNP.”

He said: “After his offensive column where he questioned the Scottishness of Labour voters it now emerges that he has failed to register that he owns a hotel in the Highlands.

“The SNP might be arrogantly taking these elections for granted, but it takes a special level of arrogance to think that you can run Scotland’s capital while you are running a hotel in a completely different part of the country.”

Speaking after his first campaign event in Edinburgh South, Mr Murray urged the people in Edinburgh South and across Scotland to use their votes to send a simple message to Ms Sturgeon — “do not divide us again.”