AS I SEE IT: TERRY MURDEN Finance Secretary Kate Forbes is getting her excuses in early ahead of next week’s Scottish Budget and is already preparing to blame the Westminster government for holding back Scotland and ruining its economy. She’s been telling The Scotsman that her planning for the statement on 28 January has been […]
Scottish budget
Mackay’s austerity budget is an opportunity missed
Sound the trumpets, shout Hosanna from the rooftops. The deal is done. Not the Brexit deal – that little difficulty still has a long way to run – but the widely anticipated deal between the minority Scottish Government and the six Green MSPs to get Derek Mackay’s budget through.