Scottish Economy

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Estimated bills can still be issued even if you have a smart meter

Underestimated usage can give energy suppliers a dishonest windfall bonus
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The Chancellor presented a series of headline tax cuts without reference to the overall future fiscal position of the UK

Letters Be clear about which mistake by Kwasi Kwarteng spooked the markets

The City of London is disconnected from the real economy of business and commerce

COMMENT Toxic Tory groupthink has to be driven out if we are to change the UK

Liz Truss hinted at this plan in an interview with Laura Kuenssberg

Letters Truss's plan to simplify the tax system might sound reasonable, but beware

Public service cuts announced by Kwasi Kwarteng will deliver a 'hammerblow' to Scottish households, says Alison Thewliss

AUSTERITY 2.0 Tory public service cuts of £18bn to pile MORE pressure on Scottish budget

Douglas Ross speaking at the Tory conference in Birmingham

'Charlatan' Douglas Ross says Chancellor 'right' to U-turn on tax cuts

Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss

'I was very clear': Truss adviser insists he DID warn her about mini-budget risks

Douglas Ross called for the Scottish Government to mirror tax cuts for the rich, a policy the UK Government has since U-turned on

THE JOUKER Seven tweets on tax cuts the Scottish Tories will wish they'd deleted

Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed public services will still face major cuts

Chancellor confirms cuts of up to £18bn for public services amid economic turmoil

Liz Truss’s government has many laws for us and apparently none at all for them

Letters Liz Truss has dodged an economic safeguard created by the Conservatives

Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng have presided over a few record lows for the pound, with the Bank of England having to intervene to protect the currency

LETTERS The gluttony of the financial cabal is at the root of this UK’s crises

Glasgow's Robert Cameron won £1m on the lottery thanks to the 'bonus ball' - but the term has come to mean something else in Scotland's biggest city

DIARY Kevin McKenna's Week: How enterprising Glaswegians are making an extra penny

It didn't take Kwasi Kwarteng long to send the UK economy off a cliff

ANALYSIS How the Tories wrecked the economy in seven days

Liz Truss's Cabinet has done nothing but steer the UK into crisis

COMMENT With a failing UK descending still further into chaos, what should you do?

Ireland has unveiled an £11 billion budget including hikes in welfare payments and pensions

£11bn budget package in Ireland could benefit indy cause, say SNP

New Prime Minister Liz Truss is facing rebellion from within her own party over tax cuts for the richest in society

Scottish Tory MSP breaks ranks to attack 'indefensible' UK Government tax cuts

Alister Jack said the announcement of tax cuts should not have come as a shock

'Anyone paying attention' knew Liz Truss planned tax cuts, Alister Jack says

Liz Truss has connections to the Insitute of Economic Affairs

EXPLAINED The free-market think tank lurking behind Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng

From left: Nicola Sturgeon, Kate Forbes, Kwasi Kwarteng, and Liz Truss

Top EU political scientist: Scottish independence case 'never looked stronger'

On of Osborne's first moves as Chancellor was to create the Office for Budget Responsibility

Letters Kwasi Kwarteng has stuck his middle finger up at austerity Osborne

Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng

OBR will deliver forecast soon after meeting with Liz Truss and Chancellor

The official coin effigy of King Charles III on a £5 Crown commemorating the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth

Royal Mint unveils first coins with Charles III's face – and when they'll enter circulation

‘Fantasy economics’ is peddled by those opposed to indy

Study finds deficit in independent Wales would be ‘fraction’ of UK estimates

Steps need to be taken in Parliament to reverse some of the most disgustingly greedy and insane aspects of the Chancellor’s plans – and then we need a General Election to get rid of the Tories

COMMENT Joanna Cherry: This is the time to forge a new social and economic vision for Scotland

It is hard to overstate just how disastrous the first month of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s tenure has been

COMMENT Ross Greer: Tory chaos has wrecked the Union’s credibility

Gordon Gecko’s ‘Greed is good’ maxim could be engraved on the door of 10 Downing Street, so central is the idea to Truss’s government

COMMENT Michael Russell: Liz Truss’s Tories don’t care that greedy Gekko was the bad guy

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng did not commission the Office for Budget Responsibility to update its forecast to reflect his mini-budget

Bombshell letter shows Chancellor refused expert forecast before mini-budget

Rather than braving the television cameras, Liz Truss opted to read her script about the mini-Budget in radio interviews

Letters Have the Tory members who chose Liz Truss got what they wanted?

Gordon Brown gave independence over monetary policy to the Bank of England in 1997

Letters Why would anyone put faith in a plan by gold-seller Gordon Brown?

Tenements in a Scottish city. File photo.

SPECIAL REPORT Johnson vowed to transform 'generation rent'. It was just another false promise

The survey took the views of more than 600 pubs and bars

More than eight in 10 Scots bars ask for government help to survive the winter

Liz Truss broke her silence on Thursday following days of economic turmoil followed her Chancellor's mini budget

Liz Truss: Tory tax cuts would 'turbocharge' Scottish economy

Douglas Ross is concerned about his mortgage, despite backing the UK Government's moves which led to the crisis

Douglas Ross ‘concerned’ about his mortgage – despite backing Tory mini-budget

Kwasi Kwarteng is standing by his policy

Read in full: Kwasi Kwarteng's message to MPs explaining economic chaos

Douglas Ross smirked and heckled as the First Minister got stuck into the Tories' tax cut policies

Douglas Ross smirks and heckles as he's told of Tory damage to UK economy

'I never thought she and Kwasi Kwarteng would be as bad as it turns out they are intent on being'

comment Richard Murphy: This is the worst economic crisis of my lifetime - here's how we got here

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have become figures of worldwide derision

The Jouker Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng humiliated on world stage by The Economist

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks to journalists at the Empire State Building, New York

Liz Truss says she slept well as markets panicked over the Tory mini-budget

People are being urged to submit meter readings before prices rise

People urged to submit meter readings before prices rise

There are concerns over the mini budget's risk to the NHS

Expert issues grave warning over Tory tax cut threat to devolution and Scotland's NHS

The Bank of England is expected to make significant interest-rate increases

Letters Now mortgage costs are soaring, workers will be reluctant to strike

Far from building up the UK economy, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are tearing it down

COMMENT PM and Chancellor AWOL as Tories wreck economy - The REAL Scottish Politics

Prime Minister Liz Truss has seen the pound plummet to record lows after less than one month in No 10

EXCLUSIVE Liz Truss 'may have aimed for economic crisis to prepare NHS for privatisation'

The survey took account of the views of over 1000 Scots over the age of 50

More than 40 per cent of Scots over 50 living in fuel poverty, survey finds

House prices could tumble after the market reacted to the UK Government's tax-slashing mini-budget

UK house prices to fall by at least 10 per cent in 2023, experts predict

Recessions can force some businesses into bankruptcy

EXPLAINED Is the UK economy already in recession?

Gran-of-three Marion Forsyth, 63, (second from left) escaped debt catastrophe with specialist help and thinks the new Scottish Government help site could benefit others

EXCLUSIVE Gran brought back from debt catastrophe welcomes new SNP crisis help scheme

The Bank of England has suspended its programme of selling Gilts

The Bank of England has suspended its operation to sell Gilts - but what are they?

The Bank of England is intervening in attempt to stabilise the market

Explained Explained: Why is the Bank of England buying up government debt?

Murdo Fraser had accused those criticising the Tory mini-budget of 'hyperbolic nonsense'

Tory MSP claim that financial crisis talk was 'nonsense' comes back to haunt him

Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng following his disastrous mini-budget in the House of Commons

'They have to go': Tory MPs round on Liz Truss as UK economy plunges into crisis

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called for Prime Minister Liz Truss to immediately recall parliament

Nicola Sturgeon speaks out as Tories land UK 'in grip of economic crisis'

Westray Processors Ltd gets its supply of crab from local fishermen

special report 'It's crippling us': An Orkney crab processing factory amid the energy crisis

A man walks past the Bank of England in the city of London after sterling hit its lowest level against the dollar since decimalisation in 1971

Bank of England takes emergency action as UK enters 'financial crisis territory'