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Planet Holyrood - Scottish Budget, the SNP's last throw of the dice?

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Reach Podcasts
Published
Wed 20 Dec 2023
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Shona Robison has unveiled her Scottish Government budget, hiking taxes for higher-earning Scots in an attempt to plug a £1.5 billion blackhole. The housing budget was however slashed from £738.3 million to £533.2 million, including a cut of £188.8 million to the housebuilding budget.

The Deputy First Minister also confirmed any further legal challenge to recent rulings on the controversial gender recognition reform will be scrapped, but pledged to “robustly defend” the Scottish Parliament.

The Record's Paul Hutcheon is joined by the Sunday Mail's Hannah Rodger and Ben Borland of the Scottish Daily Express to chew over the latest in Scottish politics.
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