BOTH Tory and SNP ministers are allowing businesses to “go to the wall” in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Scottish Labour warned today.

The charge came after Scottish government figures showed that the number of registered businesses north of the border is falling for the second year in a row — plummeting by 4,285 since 2020.

Shopper numbers in November also slumped by 15 per cent on pre-pandemic levels — more than the British average of 13.3 per cent — according to separate data from the Scottish Retail Consortium.