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The UK Government must not be tempted by calls for the kind of tax cuts Liz Truss sought to introduce (Picture: Jacob King/PA)

Why high taxes are good for the economy – John McLaren

Jeremy Hunt will reveal the budget around lunchtime.

Autumn statement 2022: Jeremy Hunt set to reveal autumn budget

Firefighters and supporters descend on the Scottish Parliament to promote the union's campaign for Fair Pay, an end to cuts and increased staffing. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Why the Scottish Government's offer to firefighters is so 'insulting'

Keir Starmer and other politicians on the left need to find a clearer vision of our post-Covid future (Picture: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament/PA)

After Covid, we must resist a new Age of Austerity – Joyce McMillan

Chancellor Rishi Sunak outside 11 Downing Street, London, before heading to the House of Commons to deliver his Budget. (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire)

SNP must play straight on UK Budget bonanza – Brian Wilson

Glasgow suffers biggest local government spending cuts in Scotland

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Former leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, speaking to the media outside her home in Uddingston, Glasgow, in April. Picture: PA

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Figures, obtained by the British Medical Association (BMA) and given exclusively to The Scotsman, show Scotland has lost around 100 GP surgeries over the last decade. Pic: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

GP crisis laid bare as one in ten surgeries refusing to accept new patients

The latest data showed food CPI inflation standing at 19.3 per cent, down only slightly on March's eye-watering 19.6 per cent.

Series of interest rate hikes to start within weeks despite fall in inflation

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