Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots, or should I say Scots.

Today we're going to be talking about what's been happening up in Scotland with spectators, diary reporter Lucy Dunn and Times columnist Ian McWurter.

Now on Wednesday Lucy, Chen

Robinson delivered her budget. What do you think were the key takeaways from that?

Yeah, so this budget has been the source of concern for a number of months given that the

former First Minister Humza-Yusuf and rather abruptly ended the coalition deal with the Greens,

meaning that the SNP are now in a minority government. That sort of posed some problems in terms of

whether or not this budget will pass. It seems that that will be the case, looking at what the

proposals that being put forward in it are. There's certainly been some reaching out across the

chamber. So some of the headlines talking about putting £4.9 billion towards green policies that is directed towards

the Greens looking to placate them. There's a lot of talk about healthcare and putting record

spending into the NHS. I mean, this is something that the Scottish Government always say

that they're going to do and the outcomes haven't much improved. So again, that's a very shiny

dressed up promise, but as public

services aren't really improving north of the border, it's going to be one to keep an eye on.

But certainly one of the big headlines was about the Tootile Benefit Cap, and this is something

that splashed across the Scottish newspapers. But what's particularly interesting about this

is that it seems like the SNPs pledged to remove or the total benefit cap, something that they've been going on to labour for a long time now, isn't something that is looking to come into force until probably about 2026. So it's not a tall an immediate term plan. Looking at what the analysis has been from experts, the Institute of Fiscal Studies

has said that ultimately if this were to come to fruition, it would probably mean more spending

cuts and tax rises, which is not going to make the S&P government overly popular. So I think

overall, the budget has been a lot of nice dressed up promises, but when you look at the detail,

it doesn't particularly seem as

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