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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

David Maddox: Budget - Brownlee speech

Having spent most of the time lampooning Labour for voting against the budget, Derek Brownlee, the Tory finance spokesman, has confirmed that his party will support the SNP today and claimed his party has won "a quarter of a billion pounds" of Conservative policies for Scotland.
As I blog, Jeremy Purvis, the Lib Dem finance spokesman, is saying that the measures in the budget is not enough. If you remember, the Lib Dems wanted a 2p income tax cut through the Tartan Tax variation powers, this would cost £800 million. So that's 63/62 for John Swinney at the moment.
Mr Brownlee has just asked him if all the Lib Dems have achieved is a "zero point zero zero per cent."
We are all waiting for Green leader Patrick Harvie now to see which way he and Robin Harper will go.

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