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that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster.

It is seven minutes past two

on Thursday the 3rd of November. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament,

and today I'm joined by. I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist also based at Holyrood. I'm Raj Seepsandu,

a journalist usually based in Westminster. And I'm Glenn Campbell, sitting opposite Lindsay at Holyrood today and delighted to be on political.

Well, I'm sitting in for a regular host Lucy White today because a week cannot go by in politics

without a leadership change of some sort. But we've got, I mean, kind of a packed show today, I think.

And I was going to start us off with budgetary matters because

Glenn and Lindsay, you are packed into our little Holyrood studio and we've been getting updates

to speak from John Swinney about his budget, haven't we? Who wants to tell the class what happened

there? Glenn, why don't you tell the class? Well, we've got, from John Swinney, more than a billion pounds of cuts to this year's Scottish budget.

We had 500 million announced at the beginning of September, another 615 million announced yesterday.

Some of it involves moving around cash or not spending cash that has been allocated

that might no longer be needed. But in this package, there is also real cuts, I think,

that will start to filter through to the services that people are expecting to be provided with in the public services in

Scotland. John Swinney himself acknowledges that the pressure on public finances now is greater. He says

than it any time in the last 15 years when the S&P's been in power and that there's worse to come

because of course we are expecting a UK-wide financial statement, the autumn statement from

the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in a couple of weeks which will set the terms for discussion for next year's budget and the

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