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Robison calls for clarity amid U-turn 'chaos'
Scottish Daily Express
|November 15, 2025
Rachel Reeves for her fiscal rules ...she has got some invidious choices to make'
SHONA ROBISON criticised Rachel Reeves for her U-turn on hiking income tax - just two weeks after slating her for suggesting this policy in the first place.
The Holyrood finance secretary had bemoaned that the Scottish Government would miss out on £1 billion if income tax was raised down south.
But now reports suggest the Chancellor is no longer plotting this due to healthier financial estimates and a fear of upsetting Labour back-benchers.
This story is from the November 15, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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