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Scotland and the UK budget: Five key ways it affects you and your money

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  • Reliability

    35% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -34% Somewhat Left

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Bias Score Analysis

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16% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : But first here are the key spending and tax announcements in the budget that impact Scotland.
54% : Despite growing criticism from unions and the industry, the Chancellor is also maintaining the windfall tax - a levy on energy profits.
54% : Ms Reeves asked "everyone to make a contribution" as she announced the freeze of income tax and national insurance thresholds will continue at their current level until 2031 - a year longer than expected.
52% : While income tax is set separately by the Scottish Government, decisions made in Westminster have knock-on effects north of the border.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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