Spending, spending on things like pensions. This is all part of his big radical plan to try to get inflation and debt in the country. He has started to get inflation down, it is still the highest in the world, but it has come at a cost. A lot of people i spoke to in argentina said they were struggling as a result of high prices at a time when support for them or their pensions or salaries were not keeping up with inflation. When i put that to him he said it was false, said that the Political Class instead were playing and he also claimed that the reason people might think they were paying was due to what he described as the mass media, calling some journalist serial liars. I asked calling some journalist serial liars. Iasked him if calling some journalist serial liars. I asked him if that was the case given that the information that most people have access to as the prices they see on the shelves. Translation do you know how many goods assets exist within an economy . So you dont do ec
Noon, and a few minutes after that, the Party National secretary confirmed that there was only one nominee who had reached the threshold of 100 backers across 20 local branches of the party, and that was john swinney. 0f local branches of the party, and that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that followed the decision last week of our potential rival, kate forbes, to declare that she was not going to contest this Leadership Challenge with mr swinney. Now it Isjohn Swinney who will be taking over. He has led the party before, from 20002004. He has led the party before, from 2000 2004. He resigned after poor Election Results, but since then, he is a different man, a lot more experienced, 16 years in the cabinet. He says he will govern from the moderate centre left. We expect him to set out more details here at Glasgow University in a speech this afternoon of how he might do that. Of course, he does need to be elected as first minister. He is not automatically b