Summary
What does the Scottish Government's budget mean for taxes, welfare, and independence? The team are joined by Emma Congreve from the Fraser of Allander Institute of the University of Strathclyde to take a deep dive into acting finance secretary John Swinney's budget. As tax divergence grows between Scotland and the rest of the UK, has this so-called 'left leaning' budget served to further highlight the differences between the Scottish and the Westminster Government, and what has been the political reaction?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the biggest stories |
| 0:18.3 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.8 | It's quarter past two on Friday, the 16th |
| 0:24.6 | of December. I'm Lucy White, |
| 0:26.9 | a journalist based in Glasgow, and today |
| 0:28.8 | I'm joined by. I'm Phil Sim, |
| 0:30.7 | a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Raj Deepson-Lew, a journalist, usually |
| 0:34.9 | in Westminster, but currently sitting in Glasgow Airport. |
| 0:38.3 | And I'm Emma Congreve. I'm the deputy director of University of Straff-Claid's Fraser of Allender Institute. |
| 0:44.1 | Hello, Emma. Thank you for joining us. That's great to be here. So we don't normally have the |
| 0:49.4 | kind of background noise. It's very cosmopolitan. It's like we're all in a cafe. |
| 0:55.4 | It's like we pulled it from the archers, |
| 0:57.6 | like some kind of like, oh, bubbling, |
| 0:59.4 | bubbling airport background noise. |
| 1:01.2 | I can confirm it's a very real background noise |
| 1:04.0 | because I'm sitting in a cafe. |
| 1:05.9 | So for those who are not listening to this podcast today, |
| 1:08.8 | this is on the day that Snow hit the central belt of Scotland and in |
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