But a report from the Scottish Fiscal Commission says while Uk Government policies have contributed to the pressure, much of it comes from the Scottish Governments own decisions. Heres our scotland editorjames cook. This is the reality of life less than four miles from the scottish parliament. A Community Centre handing out free bread to help the residents of muirhouse make ends meet. And yet, now, here and across scotland, the tough times could be about to get worse. Prolonged westminster austerity, the economic damage of brexit, a global pandemic, the war in ukraine, and The Cost Of Living crisis, have all placed enormous and growing pressure on the public finances. I must take further and more urgent action now to ensure that we can balance the scottish budget in 2024 25. And i call. There is also £800 million of additional spending for new pay offers, and all that means £500 million in direct service cuts, plus a raid on the Proceeds Of Offshore Wind and publicly owned scottish w
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Now on bbc news dateline london. Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uks leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists whove worked as Foreign Correspondents, Filing Stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. This week will there be enough Vaccine Doses . The uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. And what a disputed Prime Ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. 0n dateline s panel this week janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. Jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and Foreign Correspondent in canada and the United States. And here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. Warm welcome to all of you. The European Commission has been Piling Pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut
The sunday times royal editor roya nikkhah. And the american journalist from Bloomberg News Stephanie Baker. Welcome to you all. Its 70 years this weekend since a 25 year old princess elizabeth, on safari with her husband, learned that her father George The Sixth had died. Suddenly she had lost a father and become queen. In the decades since, she has come to embody the British Monarchy and indeed modern british history a living link to churchill and the desperate days of the second world war, and also to the Winds Of Change as the British Empire collapsed. Royah nikka royal editor of The Sunday Times for a woman didnt originally expect to be queen, shes done a pretty good job . I think youre absolutely right. She has. And just listening to each the extraordinary 70 years is remarkable thinking that her link back to winston churchill, 1a Prime Ministers are now in the way things are going, borisjohnson might not be her last. She has seen so much and yet where the really extraordinary th
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are miatta fahnbulleh, who is the Chief Executive of the new economics foundation, and kate maltby who is a columnist for the i paper and arts critic. Welcome back to you both. Lets look at what belt is coming in. What else. The shocking findings of an investigation into the met by the Police Watchdog is the lead for the metro. The report uncovered discrimination, bullying and misogyny in the ranks of the force. As the government prepares to announce its long awaited Levelling Up Strategy tomorrow, the guardian quotes critics who say the 12 point plan lacks funding and clarity. The paper also carries an image of Borisjohnson Meeting his ukrainian counterpart in kyiv earlier, amid threats of a russian invasion. Despite the Prime Minister flying to eastern europe, he hasnt been able to leave his problems behind. The i says Senior Tories have put the pm on notice over partygate, with former foreig