SCOTS Tory leader Ruth Davidson has vowed to challenge a raft of popular SNP policies as she launched her party's manifesto in Glasgow.
She said money spent providing free prescriptions should be diverted to hiring nurses.
Ms Davidson also questioned free university tuition, telling supporters: "There is nothing just about fewer poor kids going to university, bigger subsidies for the middle class to get degrees, while our colleges are cut to the bone."
Her comments provided a taste of the Scottish Conservative campaign for next year's Holyrood election.
The 34-page manifesto re-iterated key pledges from the party's UK manifesto unveiled earlier this week, including plans to bar Scots MPs from voting on income tax rates south of the Border when Holyrood gains greater tax powers.
But the document also listed policies the Tories will seek to implement if they emerge from next year's Scottish parliament poll in a position of influence.
They include re-introducing the right to buy for social housing tenants in Scotland.
The Tories have also pledged to create an extra 10,000 apprenticeships, taking the total to 35,000 per year by 2020.
Prescription charges would be brought back for "those who can afford to pay them".
The manifesto also promised to reduce the spread of onshore wind farms by ending new public subsidies for them and giving local communities the final say on such developments.
In addition. the Tories will demand an "accountability review" of Police Scotland to ensure local policing priorities are met.
Looking ahead to Holyrood gaining new tax-raising powers, Ms Davidson said: "We have to have a long hard look at Scotland's spending priorities, and urgently because pretty soon it will be funded directly from Scotland's pay packets.
"And when those new powers do come, I can tell you this. There is only one party that will put taxpayers first, and that is the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party."
She was cheered by supporters when she added: "We decry the soggy centre-left consensus and, yes, we do do things a different way.
"And our opponents better be looking over their shoulders, because we are coming for the SNP and we are coming for Labour."
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