Scotland’s budget will have to be slashed regardless of whether it stays in the UK or the EU, according to a former top advisor to the Scottish Government.
Alex Bell, who served as one of Alex Salmond’s closest aides in the SNP government, said the spending levels that Scots have become used to are “no longer affordable”.
That will be the case whatever constitutional position Scotland finds itself in after the EU negotiations, he told The Courier’s Brexit Briefing yesterday.
The event was chaired by Courier editor Richard Neville and panellists included the paper’s political editor Kieran Andrews and business editor Graham Huband.
* For full coverage of the event see Tuesday’s Courier, also available as a digital edition.
