McGills owners the Easdales brothers blasted Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham for boasting about the performance of his franchised bus services which cost taxpayers £226m a year.

Greenock businessmen James and Sandy Easdale have given £30,000 towards the work of Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.

Labour’s plans to reform bus services are ill-conceived and doomed to fail, the billionaire behind Scotland’s biggest independent bus operator has warned.